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Dr. Gayla Turk, Executive Director, Conductor and Instructor of Voice and Piano
Education: B.M. Westminster Choir College
M.M. in Voice Performance University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Ph.D. in Music Education University of Kansas
Dr. Turk began her career in music touring as a soloist with the Westminster Choir traveling across the U.S. and performing in the Spoleto Music Festival in Spoleto, Italy. Over the years her work has included teaching all levels from preschool to college. For twelve years, she served as Director of Music Education at Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina. She has served numerous churches as organist/director and has been active in state and national music education associations. While teaching, she has continued to perform as a guest soloist, art song recitalist and a choral/orchestral conductor. Dr. Turk is the founder and Executive Director of the ProMusic Conservatory.
turkgc@promusicconservatory.org
Dr. Milen Parashkevov, Instructor of Guitar
Education: BMA - Guitar Performance - Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria
MMA and DMA - Guitar Performance - Texas Tech University
 Guitarist Milen Parashkevov has won national and international recognition including: 2005 - Winner of the Falletta International Guitar Composition Competition; 2003 - First Prize at the Tezas International Guitar Performance Competition; 2002 - Second Prize at the Appalachian Guitar Competition (Boone, NC); Second Prize at the Lachine Guitar Competition (Montreal, Canada); 1996 - Fellowship for student honors at the Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria); 1995 - Second Prize at Plovdiv International Guitar Concerto Competition (Plovdiv, Bulgaria). His goal is to “broaden the scope of guitar students by encouraging them to improvise, compose, arrange for guitar and work with other musicians.” Dr. Parashkevov would like to build a significant guitar program and organize a guitar festival. He currently is an Instructor of Guitar at Campbell University and is an active performer.
Patricia Taylor, Accompanist
Education: BS in Music Education - Atlantic Christian College (now Barton College)
MME - Boston University
Mrs. Taylor, a music educator for 28 years, is currently teaching at the Rock Ridge Elementary School located in Wilson, NC. She is also the accompanist/organist and co-conductor at the West Nash United Methodist Church also in Wilson. Mrs. Taylor is a versatile musician playing the piano, organ, guitar and flute. She is currently serving as the International Music Representative of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International.
Todd Wells, Instructor of Piano
Education: BM - Berklee School of Music 
Mr. Wells is an accomplished concert, gospel and jazz pianist and a composer and arranger. He began his professional career at the age of 14 when he began touring as accompanist with various nationally known gospel groups. After graduation from the Berklee School of Music, he was employed by the Norwegian Cruise Line to perform classical and jazz piano music concerts on the cruise ships. Mr. Wells served as pianist, keyboardist and orchestrator for the house band at the Roanoke Rapids Theater in Roanoke Rapids, NC playing for The Platters and sharing the stage with performers such as Ronnie Milsap, Charlie Daniels, The Oak Ridge Boys and Lorrie Morgan among many others. He continues to perform as a solo artist performing music of the masters as well as his own arrangements and improvisations of gospel and other popular music.
Instructors of Percussion, Brass and Woodwinds to be announced
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