Terrance Kelly
Artistic Director, Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
Oakland, CA
Since 1986, Terrance Kelly has directed the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir. He serves as artistic director for both the adult and youth choirs. He is also minister of magnification at Oakland's Imani Community Church, director of the Foothill Community College Gospel Choir and gospel choir director for Rhythmic Concepts' annual Jazz Camp West.
Kelly has musical expertise in both gospel and jazz music, and his operatic range and joyous emotional feel for the music make him a popular soloist as well as an accomplished director, composer and arranger.
His credits include choral arrangements on albums by Linda Ronstadt and the Kronos Quartet, and gospel arrangements of popular music for television and video soundtracks. In addition, he wrote or arranged most of the music for each of the choir's four albums. Kelly received an Emmy Award in 1995 for his choral arrangement of Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir's KGO-TV public service announcement.
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