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Brittney Boykin

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Brittney Boykin (B.E. Boykin) is a native of Alexandria, Virginia and comes from a musical family. At the age of 7, she began piano lessons and continued her studies through high school under the tutelage of Ms. Alma Sanford. Ms. Sanford guided her through various competitions, such as the NAACPs ACT-SO competition where she garnered 1st place for 3 consecutive years in the local competition. Also, in the spring of 2007, Ms. Boykin was awarded The Washington Post Music and Dance Award.Ms. Boy...show more Brittney Boykin (B.E. Boykin) is a native of Alexandria, Virginia and comes from a musical family. At the age of 7, she began piano lessons and continued her studies through high school under the tutelage of Ms. Alma Sanford. Ms. Sanford guided her through various competitions, such as the NAACPs ACT-SO competition where she garnered 1st place for 3 consecutive years in the local competition. Also, in the spring of 2007, Ms. Boykin was awarded The Washington Post Music and Dance Award.Ms. Boykin pursued her classical piano studies at Spelman College under the leadership of Dr. Rachel Chung. During her time at Spelman, Ms. Boykin was the student accompanist for the Spelman College Glee Club, led by Dr. Kevin Johnson, for all 4 years. While being an active music student in the music department, she also attended classes to pursue her interest in composition. These classes challenged her musical imagination, and she began to compose and arrange a number of choral compositions. Her compositions quickly became popular, including her arrangement of Go Down, Moses and a setting of Ave Maria. In fact, both of these arrangements were performed and recorded by the Spelman College Glee Club during her sophomore, junior and senior years. During her tenure at Spelman College, Ms. Boykin also won 1st place at the 2009 James A. Hefner HBCU Piano Competition at Tennessee State University and traveled abroad to perform in the Grumo Music Festival in Grumo, Italy during the summer of 2010.After graduating Spelman College in 2011 with a B.A. in Music, Ms. Boykin continued her studies at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. She continued to compose music during her time at Westminster, and was awarded the R and R Young Composition Prize just a few months shy of graduating. In May of 2013, Ms. Boykin graduated from Westminster Choir College with a M.M. in Sacred Music with a concentration in choral studies.Ms. Boykin currently serves as a faculty member of the Spelman College Music Department. Her most recent composition, We Sing as One, was commissioned to celebrate Spelman Colleges 133rd Anniversary of its founding at the 2014 Founders Day Convocation. Ms. Boykin also serves in a number of different music ministries throughout the metropolitan Atlanta area. show less

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Unified Prayer
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Coventry
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Go Down Moses
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Consolamini
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Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
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Dormi Jesu
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John 3:16
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We Sing As One
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