William B. Roberts

William Bradley Roberts is a prolific American composuer and currently Associate Professor of Church Music at Virginia Theological Seminary.
He received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Houston Baptist University with double majors in Voice and Music Education. He received the degrees Master of Church Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from Southern Seminary (Louisville, Ky.) with an emphasis in Conducting and Voice.
Roberts was ordained in the Baptist Church in 1971. Prior to his coming to Virginia Seminary, he was an Episcopal Church musician for thirty-three years, the most recent position being St. John’s, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
He has taught on the music faculties of Indiana University Southeast, Southern Seminary, Mars Hills College and Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.
Roberts is a composer with works published by Augsburg-Fortress, G.I.A., Hope, Paraclete, St. James Music Press, Pendragon Press and Selah. His hymns and other music for worship appear in several volumes including the hymnals of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod and various collections of Church Publishing Inc.
Roberts was chair of the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Church Music and a founding board member and chair of the Leadership Program for Musicians. Currently he is a member of the boards of the Seminary Music Initiative, the Anglican Musicians’ Mentoring Project,
and Melodious Accord, a non-profit organization that promotes the work of composer Alice Parker. He was on the New Music Commissions Committee for the 2010 national convention of the American Guild of Organists.
In Print
*Rise Up, Shepherd: Clergy Building Vibrant Congregations Through Music, will be released by Church Publishing Inc. in the summer of 2009.

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