Joan Pinkston

Joan Jacobson Pinkston (born June 27, 1947) is a composer, choral arranger, and music teacher.
Biography
Pinkston was born in Chicago, Illinois and reared in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she early displayed unusual musical gifts. She began serving as pianist of her church at age ten and appeared regularly as a pianist on local television and in classical music concerts at age twelve. In high school she studied with Alvine Sineps at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and she continued her musical training at Bob Jones University, where she studied with Dwight Gustafson and earned both a BA and MA in music. Pinkston did further study with Alfred Kanwischer at the Hartt College of Music, at Westminster Choir College, and with Leo Litwin and Alice Parker.
Pinkston has published more than 300 pieces of music including numerous sacred choral pieces in a traditional style, many of them with SoundForth and Beckenhorst Presses. Her hymn arrangements for piano and orchestra were featured on the recording Our Great Savior. In 2002, Pinkston’s 816-page hymn book, Hymns of Grace and Glory, was published for the Free Presbyterian Church of North America and featured more than seventy of her own hymn tunes. In 2007 she won a second-place award for a published work in a contest sponsored by the John Ness Beck Foundation. From 2004 through 2009, Pinkston's students (including Dan Forrest) also won four first places and three second places in the two-category competition. In 2010 she released a recording of her piano arrangements, Our Song of Praise.
Pinkston has taught music theory, hymn playing, orchestration, and choral writing and composition at Bob Jones University for more than forty years. She serves as pianist at Faith Free Presbyterian Church of Greenville, South Carolina.<ref name="BJU"/>

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu