Phil L. Burkett
Adjunct Faculty (Church Music)

Dr. Philip L. Burkett graduated from Huntington College with his B.A. as a music (vocal performance) major. He was the Fine Arts Assistant his junior and senior years. In his senior year, he received the Most Outstanding Scholar, Most Outstanding Dramatist and Most Outstanding Musician awards at Huntington College.

Dr. Burkett earned his Master of Church Music degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY double majoring in Church Music and Vocal Performance. While enrolled there he served as the Sacred Opera Department assistant and appeared in numerous opera and sacred opera scenes and full productions. While a graduate student, he was the tenor soloist/section leader at the Catholic Cathedral in Louisville and choir director for the Highland United Methodist Church. He was a soloist with the Louisville Bach Society and the Seminary Oratorio Society. During the 1980-¹81 season, he appeared with the Kentucky Opera Association¹s production of Carmen as Dancairo and Tosca as Spoletta.

Dr. Burkett was selected to do a summer opera internship with the Des Moines Metro Opera in 1980. In Fort Wayne, he appeared as Bob in Menotti¹s Old Maid and the Thief and the title role in Mozart¹s Impressario in the Northern Indiana Opera Association¹s joint productions with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic.

During the 1981-82 school year he was an adjunct voice instructor at Huntington College as well as teacher of French and German diction and coach of the Huntington College deputation team. Since then, he has served as a pastor, missionary, song evangelist, soloist and choir director in numerous churches across the United States, Canada, England, Hong Kong, and Macau. Dr. Burkett earned his Master of Christian Ministries degree from Huntington College in 1986 and was ordained in the United Brethren Denomination in that same year. Currently, he serves as the Associate Pastor of Worship and Music at College Park United Brethren Church in Huntington, IN.

Dr. Burkett completed his Doctor of Worship Studies degree in 2009 from the Robert E. Webber Institute of Worship Studies located in Orange Grove, Fl. He is married to Darlene, also an H.U. adjunct music faculty, and has two children Jeremy (2006 graduate of Huntington University) and Carissa (2008 graduate of Azusa Pacific University).
 

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