Angela Tipps
A native of Murfreesboro, Angela Tipps graduated from MTSU with a Bachelor of Music in organ performance, and she received a Master of Church Music from Scarritt Graduate School in Nashville. 

Angela is organist and director of music at St. Paul's where she conducts adult choir and choristers. She also conducts the MTSU Women's Chorale and coordinates the music appreciation courses at MTSU School of Music.

Angela is founding director of the Murfreesboro Symphony Chorus which performs with the Murfreesboro Symphony Orchestra.

She is also the founding director of the Nashville Chamber Singers, an auditioned ensemble specializing in unaccompanied choral music. The Chamber Singers have performed with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra at the Ryman Auditorium, which was recorded for National Public Radio's Performance Today. The group is also premiering a commissioned work for choir, organ, and orchestra at the national convention of the American Guild of Organists in July 2012.

Angela has served as state president of the , and has served as past dean of both the Nashville and Savannah, Georgia, chapters of the American Guild of Organists. She has conducted Virginia All-State Choir, Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts, and served as conductor/clinician for national church music organizations such as Fellowship of United Methodists and Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. She is a past president of the Tennessee American Choral Directors Association chapter and is a past dean of the Savannah, Georgia, and Nashville, Tennessee chapters of American Guild of Organists.