Bennie C. Caston Jr.
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EDUCATION
- D.M.A., Church Music/Voice, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
- M.M.C.M., Church Music/Voice, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
- B.M., Church Music, Voice,/Piano, William Carey College, Hattiesburg, MS
- A.A., Southwest Mississippi Community College, Summit, MS
Dr. Caston serves as professor of voice. As a minister of music Dr. Caston has served Baptist Churches in Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and Texas.
Dr. Caston has conducted Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Rutter’s Magnificat, Rutter’s Requiem, Haydn’s Te Deum, and Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer with the Texas Medical Center Community Choir and Orchestra.
Dr. Caston, a lyric tenor and active oratorio soloist, has performed with various choral societies, symphonies, and orchestras, and colleges. Most notably, he has performed Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Teichler’s The Good Samaritan, and Dubois’s The Seven Last Words of Christ.
Dr. Caston is an active member of the Century Men, National Association of Teachers of Singing, American Choral Directors Association, and The Baptist Church Music Conference.
Dr. Caston and his wife, Rebecca, have two children, Clay and Sydney, and they live in Fort Worth, Texas.
Meet Bennie Caston
Experience is crucial when establishing credentials in teaching, and experience is one reason students enjoy learning from Bennie Caston, professor of voice at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, according to Luke Hannah, a Doctor of Musical Arts student from Richland, Mississippi. Utilizing his 29 years of experience in music ministry and performing, Caston imparts wisdom and knowledge to the students at Southwestern Seminary and Texas Baptist College.