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Professor of Music Education

Area Coordinator, Music Education

Tom Wine is Professor of Music Education and Director of WU Choir and Shocker Choir at Wichita State University. Recipient of the 2009 WSU President's Distinguished Service Award as well as the 2009 Burton Pell Award from the Wichita Arts Council, Wine is editor of the book, Composers on Composing for Choir. Wine is past-president of Kansas American Choral Directors Association. His choirs have appeared at Kansas Music Educators Association Conference twelve different times. Wine has conducted district and All-state choirs in Kansas, Florida, Oklahoma, Missouri, Alabama, and South Carolina. On three different occasions he led choirs on trips to Europe with the Kansas Ambassadors.  His choir premiered "Requiem" by David N. Childs in Carnegie Hall. He directs the Chancel Choir at Eastminster Presbyterian Church.