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ICC's Kyle Davis selected as William Winter Scholar for 2024

Kyle Davis of Fulton, choir director/music instructor, has been selected as Itawamba Community College’s William Winter Scholar for 2024.

            He will be among statewide recipients honored during opening and closing ceremonies at the 35th Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, Feb. 22-24.

            Davis joined the ICC family in fall 2018. Before his appointment, he served as the music director, vocal coach and instructor for the University of Alabama’s Department of Theatre and Dance.

            He earned the bachelor’s degree from Blue Mountain Christian University and the master’s degree from the University of Mississippi and is scheduled to receive the doctoral degree from William Carey University this summer. 

            Davis’s honors and awards include the Ed Ludlow Alumni Award for Servant Leadership in Music, Linda Berry Music Award and Purser Speech Award, all from Blue Mountain Christian University; the Outstanding Faculty Award from Alpha Psi Omega at the University of Alabama; Target Award for Most Outstanding Teacher in the South Tippah County School District; and the Most Outstanding Graduate Singer Award and Most Outstanding Opera Singer Award from the University of Mississippi.

            Davis, who is the music director at the First United Methodist Church of Pontotoc, is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the American Choral Directors Association.

Among his musical performances include singing with the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and Mississippi, Arkansas and Nashville Symphonies. He also sang for President Barak Obama at the White House and had the opportunity to world premiere the Opera Hamlet by Nancy Van de Vate in Prague, Czech Republic.

            Davis and his wife, Kala, have one child.

            The Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration is one of the state’s most significant annual conferences devoted to literature, history, film and culture. It is cosponsored by Copiah-Lincoln Community College, the city of Natchez, the Adams County Board of Supervisors, Visit Natchez, Mississippi Arts Commission, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Mississippi Humanities Council and The National Park Service. This year’s theme is “Rites, Rituals and Religion in the Deep South.”



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