Angela Vaughn Hampton, Voces Novae

An inaugural member of Voces Novae, Angela spent nine years as accompanist and soprano, eventually being named Assistant Artistic Director. During her eighteen-year hiatus, she has to returned to VN several times as interim accompanist and conductor, leading the group for the March 2019 concert. In her twenty-seventh year as the Director of Choral Music and Handbells at Floyd Central High School, Angela Hampton directs five choirs and two handbell ensembles. In addition, she is the music director for Floyd Central’s Theatre Arts Department. Ensembles under her direction have performed in Ireland, Austria, Canada, Orlando, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., and locally, with the Louisville Chorus and Louisville Orchestra. Angela holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Louisville in Music Education and Choral Conducting. In 2017, Angela was the recipient of a Lilly Endowment Fellowship, allowing her to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in Germany and explore its connections to J.S. Bach and Felix Mendelssohn. She is an active member of ACDA, NAfME, and Handbell Musicians of America where she was the first person to earn Handbell Musician Level 2 Certification. Angela has been published in ACDA newsletters at the state (Indiana and Kentucky) and division (North Central and Northwest) levels as well as ACDA’s E-newsletter, ChorTeach. She has served as a clinician for ICDA, IMEA, AGEHR, the Louisville Suzuki Piano Institute and the Greater Louisville Music Teachers Association, and was a staff member for the Kentucky Ambassadors of Music in 2004, 2006 and 2008, and will be again in 2023. She is active in her community as a church musician and as a free-lance pianist/accompanist.