Michael Mays

Voice lessons, singing, voice-over, piano tuning

Michael has been performing music since before he can remember. His father, a retired police officer and lay preacher, used to bring Michael to the police station to perform Glen Campbell favorites like "The Rhinestone Cowboy" (which is actually the only song Michael can remember!). As a child, Michael would sing regularly as a soloist when his dad took the pulpit during evangelistic events, and he developed his general musical skills as a piano student.

Michael earned his bachelor of music degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1995, where he had opportunities to perform regularly in the chorus and in various compramario roles with the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Association performances, including El Remendado in Carmen, Ruiz in Il Trovatore, Spoletta in Tosca, and Borsa in Rigoletto. With the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Opera Workshop, Michael performed the roles of Ferrando in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, in Barab’s The Toy Shop, and as the title character in Samuel Barber’s Chanticleer. He has also appeared in such oratorios as Obadiah in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Tenor in Handel’s Messiah, Greg Nelson and Bob Farrell’s Savior, and The Seasonings and Missa Hilarious by Dr. Peter Schickele (alias P.D.Q. Bach). Michael also earned his voice-over certification from Such a Voice in 2017.

Michael has taught professionally, at both the high school and college levels. His academic employments have included choir and voice teacher at The Center for Creative Arts at Chattanooga High School; studio voice, University Choir, and Opera Workshop at Southwest Baptist University (Bolivar, MO); and studio voice, music theory, and composition at Tennessee Temple University (Chattanooga, TN). He has taught privately since 1993.

Joy Mays

Piano lessons

Joy started taking piano lessons when she was only four years old, taught by one of her older sisters. Even as young as age eleven, Joy was the regular organist at the church in Arlington, Massachusetts, where her father served as pastor.

Joy earned her bachelor of arts degree in piano performance from Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga in 1996.