David Kammerdiener - Piano
A charter member of the faculty since 1997, David Kammerdiener has been playing the piano since he was five years old. He is a graduate of the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Texas, and holds the following degrees: Bachelor of Music, Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma; Master of Church Music, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, California; Master of Music in Education-Kodály Emphasis, Holy Names College, Oakland, California; Associate of Applied Science-Networking Specialist, Georgia Northwestern Technical College, Rock Spring, Georgia.
He has taught piano and directed choirs for more than 35 years in the U.S. and four Latin American countries, served as an International Music Missionary and Minister of Music in the U.S. Fluent in Spanish, “Mr. K” as he is known, is a certified Chorus teacher and Spanish teacher. In addition, Mr. Kammerdiener is the pianist for the Chattanooga Girls Choir “Bella Voce” Choir (5th and 6th grade), for a local jazz combo, ¡Qué Jazz! and has been playing in Big Bands since the mid-1990’s. He is the keyboardist in The UPTown Big Band of Chattanooga, Tennessee and is the pianist and minister of music at White Oak United Methodist Church in Red Bank, Tennessee.