We are pleased to announce that Jan Corrothers will be joining our Worship and Music Ministry Staff as Church Organist. Jan is a collaborative pianist and organist based in the Greater Nashville area where she serves as full-time Staff Accompanist and Coordinator of Collaborative Piano for the Music Department of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

Jan received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organ Performance and Church Music from Alderson Broaddus University, where she received the 2008 Outstanding Young Alumni Award, and a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance from Shenandoah University, where she was awarded a graduate assistantship as pianist for the opera program.

Mrs. Corrothers plays for choral conventions, workshops, festivals, recitals, competitions, and reading sessions across the United States and abroad. Jan has previously served as Staff Accompanist and Adjunct Faculty member at Xavier University, Northern Kentucky University, Alderson Broaddus University, and Marietta College, and as Principal Accompanist of the Cincinnati Youth Choir, in residence at the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music.

Jan has been a guest lecturer in Beijing, China, presenting research on the art of Choral Collaboration: Understanding the Function of the Conductor/Accompanist/Choir Triangle.  She shared her research as a guest presenter for Chorus America’s Conducting Retreat at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music in 2013.

Freelance performing opportunities include serving as Guest Collaborative Artist at Anderson University with Jessica Rivera Shafer, Soprano (2015), choral festival pianist with the Cincinnati Youth Choir in Carnegie Hall, All State Chorus accompanist in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Florida, as well as American Choral Director’s Association Regional and National honor choir accompanist.

Please help us make Jan and her husband, Earl, feel welcome as they join our Nashville First Baptist Family of Faith.