Phil L. Burkett
Adjunct Faculty (Church Music)

Philip L. Burkett was the Fine Arts Assistant his junior and senior years at Huntington College. In his senior year, he received the Most Outstanding Scholar, Most Outstanding Dramatist and Most Outstanding Musician awards.

Mr. Burkett served as the Sacred Opera Department assistant at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary appearing 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.

Mr. Burkett did 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 a 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. Currently, he serves as the Associate Pastor of Worship and Music at College Park United Brethren Church in Huntington, IN.

He is currently enrolled in a doctoral program through the Institute of Worship Studies, Florida Campus, projecting to finish in 2008. Phil is married to Darlene, also H.U. adjunct music faculty, and has two children Jeremy (2006 graduate of Huntington University) and Carissa (art major, Azusa Pacific University).

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