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Robert Overman, Director of Music Ministries, remains active as a performer and teacher. He is a member of the vocal faculty at High Point University and is a national winner of both the National Opera Association Auditions in Washington, DC, and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in New York City. Robert has enjoyed a 30-year professional singing career, with 15 of those years spent living and singing leading roles in opera theaters and concert halls in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and throughout Europe, as well as in the US. He recently has been heard in leading roles with Piedmont Opera and with the Greensboro and Winston-Salem Symphonies. He has also sung as a guest soloist in churches and cathedrals throughout Europe as well as Duke Chapel and the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Robert and his wife Rhonda are alumni of the Starmount Presbyterian Church Choir, having served as soloists / section leaders prior to their time in Europe. Rhonda serves Starmount as an elder, a soprano in the Chancel Choir and directs the Children's Choir as well as playing handbells. Bob and Rhonda are the proud parents of two elementary school aged children, Jennifer and Mary, as well as Ginger (Collie), who prefers not to have her age disclosed.
Michael Parker, Organist, holds a B.M. degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and an M.M. degree from Indiana University. His major teachers have included Peter Takacs and Gyorgy Sebok. He has performed extensively throughout the U.S. as a collaborative pianist. Michael comes to Greensboro College from the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has served as artistic director of the Alamance Chorale and organist/choirmaster at the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant in Greensboro. Michael’s church work includes solo piano, harpsichord and organ literature, as well as accompaniment for variety of instrumental and vocal soloist. Michael has had many career highlights including accompanying Metropolitan Opera leading tenor Marcus Haddock in a concert of operatic arias and duets. Michael has accompanied leading International and Metropolitan Opera star tenor, Johan Botha.

