HIGHLIGHTS:

 

Mrs. Royer’s Choral Directing experience includes:

 

• Hillside UMC, Woodstock, GA – current church home - (Dr. John Beyers, Sr. Pastor)

  • Chorus Teacher for the H.E.D.G.E. homeschool ministry

  • Currently fills in for the Director of Worship at Hillside UMC n Woodstock, Georgia where she leads the choir and congregation in the traditional hymns, prayers, and choral anthems

     

• City on a Hill UMC, Woodstock, GA (Rev. Chris Bryant; daughter church of Hillside)

  • Choir Director – Planned and directed seasonal choral ensemble music

     

• Sugar Hill UMC, Buford, Georgia (Dr. Richard Hunter, Sr. Pastor)

  • Interim Worship Director (filled in on various weeks during 2012 and 2013)

 

• Kennesaw State University – Music Education student (graduating Spring 2016)

  • Specializing in Choral Conducting

  • Completion of Advanced Choral Conducting, Theory, Aural Skills, and Piano classes

 

BACKGROUND:

 

Mrs. Royer grew up in Smyrna, Georgia and was involved in the music ministry at Smyrna First UMC.  She served as an active member of the touring group “God’s Light Youth Choir” from age nine to sixteen.  God’s Light tours were conducted under the direction of Mrs. Kim Duggins, Director of Youth and Music Ministries, and included annual two-week summer cross country tours and concerts at various Methodist churches across the United States.  Mrs. Royer later became active in the adult Chancel choir at Smyrna First UMC under the direction of Mrs. Lynn Dee Martin, former Director of Music Ministries. 

 

During this time she was also a soprano member of the Cobb Youth Chorus under the direction of Mrs. Elizabeth Kimble.  Later she would participate as a soprano in the Campbell High Chorale for three years under the direction of Dr. Beth Brown Shugart, plus one year under the direction of Mrs. Rita Johnston until her graduation in 1993.  She earned Excellent and Superior ratings in both the Individual and Women’s Trio categories at All-State competition, earned her high school letter in Chorus, and was awarded medals from the Georgia Music Educator’s Association. 

 

After high school, Mrs. Royer attended Kennesaw State University and earned a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Communications and a minor in English Literature, graduating in May 1998.  She married her husband Craig in the summer of 2001.  The couple served in the contemporary praise band as praise singer and bass guitarist at City On A Hill United Methodist Church, in Woodstock, Georgia, from August 2006 through July 2012. 

 

In January 2010, Mrs. Royer was asked to initiate and implement a new Chorus program at the H.E.D.G.E. homeschool ministry, a then current ministry of Hillside United Methodist Church in Woodstock, Georgia, where she served as H.E.D.G.E. Choir Director for one and a half years.  While in the music ministry at City On A Hill UMC, she conducted an adult Praise Choir and supervised volunteers involved with seasonal children’s and youth music.  Outside of church, she participated as a Soprano member and soloist in Kennesaw State University’s Community and Alumni Choir under the direction of Dr. Leslie Blackwell.

 

Today, Mrs. Royer studies Choral Music Education at Kennesaw State University’s School of Music.  She has completed three years of choral ensemble requirements, advanced Choral Conducting classes, Piano classes and vocal lessons with vocal coach Dr. Adam Kirkpatrick of the Atlanta Opera, and most recently Mrs. Eileen Moremen, Artist-in-Residence in Voice, and director of KSU's Voice and Opera Workshop.  Mrs. Royer received Superior feedback ratings at the National Association of Teachers of Singing audition in Spring of 2012, is an active Alto I/II member of the auditioned KSU Chamber Singers under the direction of Dr. Leslie Blackwell, is an active Soprano member of the KSU Gospel Choir, and was recently chosen to audition for KSU School of Music’s Concerto competition.  

 

Additionally, she currently enhances her Choral music studies outside of Kennesaw State by serving in the Worship ministries at her home church of Hillside United Methodist in Woodstock, Georgia.  Kim is serving as a first soprano in the Chancel and Chamber choirs on a weekly basis, singing solos on a seasonal basis, and serving in the contemporary praise band on a bi-weekly basis as a praise singer.  Craig is serving as bass guitarist in the band as well.  Their 8 year old son, Christian, attends Sunday school during services.

 

MUSIC CALLING AND VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS:

 

She has a passion and a calling towards church choral music in general and has a special heart for youth music at the junior and senior high level.  Mrs. Royer serves at Hillside United Methodist Church as a servant leader in the junior high ministry called X-Zone (6th-8th grade), where she participates in youth worship on Tuesday nights.  She is the small group leader of an 8th grade girls’ bible study group on Sunday nights. 

 

She supplements her music education through current memberships in the National Association for Music Education, Georgia Music Educators Association, and American Choral Director’s Association.  She is on the Marketing Task Force in the ACDA chapter for Kennesaw State and attends conferences and lectures given by key music education professionals