A native of western New York, baritone Floyd Rawleigh received his undergraduate training in music education, voice and piano at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester. He earned a Master of Music from Temple University where he studied voice with Christine Anderson, music education with Edwin Gordon and music theory with Stimson Carrow. Floyd has been a middle school choral director in the Downingtown Area School District for the past 17 years. His program currently includes 450 singers in the sixth through eighth grades. Prior to teaching in Downingtown, he also taught in Lake Luzerne, New York and at Valley Forge Christian College. He has also taught music theory, voice and choral conducting classes at Lancaster Bible College. In addition to his choral responsibilities at Downingtown Middle School, Floyd has been the music director for Downingtown High School’s music theater program and currently is the music director at Faith Reformed Presbyterian Church in Quarryville, PA where he directs the choir and a cappella singers. Floyd is also the artistic director of the Csehy Summer School of Music, a Christian music camp which meets on the campus of Philadelphia Biblical University in Langhorne, PA. There, he teaches voice, music theory and directs the choir. Floyd’s performance credits include numerous appearances as a sacred soloist throughout the Philadelphia area. He has also performed roles in Handel’s Hercules and Messiah as well as Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.