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In this video from Berklee Online’s Gospel Music for Keyboard course, instructor Dennis Montgomery plays and sings “Oh Happy Day” by Edwin Hawkins. Montgomery—who co-authored this course with Mark Copeland—is joined in this performance by four other singers from Pleasant Hill Baptist Church; Deacon Andre Chapman, Lucille Pringle, Deaconess Carol Thomas, and Sister Trina Weekes.
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ABOUT MARK COPELAND:
Mark Copeland is a pianist, organist, keyboardist, music producer, composer, arranger, songwriter, and educator. Versatile in all forms of contemporary music, he is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he is currently a professor in the Ensemble department. Mark has played for and shared the stage with numerous artists, such as Yolanda Adams, Brian McKnight, Jeffrey Osborne, Kenny Lattimore, Michelle Brooks-Thompson, Walter Beasley, Gerald Albright, Kirk Whalum, and Elan Trotman, and more.
ABOUT DENNIS MONTGOMERY:
By the time Dennis Montgomery III was nine, he was playing B3 organ in Baptist churches in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. He began his time at Berklee as a student in 1983, and is currently a full professor as well as the director of Berklee’s Reverence Gospel Choir, which has included students from Japan, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, and a number of European and Scandinavian nations among its members. Having worked with the choir for more than three decades, Montgomery has directed such students as Paula Cole, Lalah Hathaway, and Susan Tedeschi.
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