Tim Sharp

It is a pleasure to have an office below the archival collection of the American Choral Directors Association. Our ACDA archives are fertile ground for anyone interested in doing research on the choral profession and choral music education (hint, hint to any doctoral students reading this). In preparation for an address I recently gave to […]

Last week I took my banjo to a technician to have the neck adjusted (the “Reply” button below this blog is where you can deposit your banjo joke. I think I’ve heard them all, so if you post one, I hope it is a good one.) Why was I doing this? Because tone quality and […]

Recent findings from IBM’s Institute for Business Value survey was published last week in Business Week magazine and demonstrate one competency leadership values above all others. I share this common value related to the work of the American Choral Directors Association.     On my desk at the ACDA National Headquarters are nine ink pens, a […]

If you “google” the name “Timothy Sharp”, you will find three people with that name emerge. The first is a polished, affable, dapper choral director. The second runs a clinic called the “Happiness Clinic.” And the third person you will find is, well … me. The two Timothy Sharps that are active in the American […]

Here is the third part of my vision for impacting our world for choral music.    There are two previous entries: An Opportunity for Every Child Doing it –   In Tony Wagner’s The Global Achievement Gap, the author outlines seven survival skills for the 21st century. For each of these areas, we must individually, in […]

This is a followup on my previous entry, An Opportunity for Every Child.   How We Are Going to Do It Over the last two years I have traveled the country holding round table discussions, children’s leader summits, focus group and industry meetings, attending association and guild events, and engaging in numerous detailed discussions on […]