Audrey Florence Dean-Wright

 

Audrey Dean-Wright is a singer, choral director, pianist, adjudicator, composer and poet currently living in Nassau, Bahamas. She studied at the Jamaica School of Music in Kingston, Jamaica and completed bachelor's and Master's degrees at the Manhattan School of Music in New York.

Dean-Wright has composed a broad spectrum of music, including Bahamian Folk Songs, Spirituals, and standard choral music, works that are performed in the Bahamas and in the United States. She is the founding director of the Seventh-day Adventist Meistersingers, director of The Bahamas National Children’s Choir, Minister of Music at the Centreville Seventh-day Adventist Church and a Senior Lecturer at The College of The Bahamas. She has won numerous national and international awards.

Dean-Wright is the wife of Carlton Wright, Under Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Bahamas. They have four children. As the wife of a diplomat, she has had the opportunity to extend her music ministry throughout and beyond the boundaries of the Bahamas.

Audrey Dean-Wright can be reached at: 242-327-0394; P.0. Box N8014, Nassau, Bahamas, or mussolfege@coralwave.com or nicoletteandu@aol.com

 

2004

Partial Listing of Compositions by Audrey Dean-Wright

Sacred

1.‘Tis So Sweet to Trust In Jesus - S.A.T.B.
2. Rise Up Children Give Thanks - S.A.T.B.
3. My Jesus I Love Thee - S.A.T.B.
4. Lord Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace - S.A.T.B.
5. Our Cornerstone - Solo or Congregational with piano accomp.
6. What a Friend We Have In Jesus - S.A.T.B.
7. Don't Hold Me Back I'm Going Up Yonder - S.A.T.B.
8. Daddy, You're My Hero (Unison)
9. Mothers Are a Gift From God (Unison)


Christmas

1.That Tiny Baby Boy - S.A.T.B.
2. Bahamian Carol - S.A.T.B.
3. If Jesus Was Born In Nassau Town - S.A.T.B.
4. Gentle Christ Child (S.A.T.B. with optional flute)
5. Sweet Little Baby - S.A.T.B.
6. Dat Christmas Mornin' - T.T.B.B.


Responses


1. Lord We Come Before You
2. Let Us Worship Christ
3. Hear Our Prayer, O Lord
4. May he Love of God Be In Your Heart
5. Deep Down In My Soul