Earlene Rentz

Earlene Rentz is a free-lance composer/arranger who received her Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the University of Montevallo (Alabama) and both Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Music Education from Florida State University.  A native of Georgia, she taught choral music for seven years in Georgia public schools at elementary, junior high, and high school levels.  She has taught choral music education courses at California State University, Long Beach, the University of Texas at Austin, and Baylor University. 

Dr. Rentz has more than two hundred choral publications with fourteen different publishers.  In addition to her musical activities, she is a choral clinician and speaker on choral music education and choral arranging.  She has conducted All-State choirs in Florida, Georgia, and Kentucky, and has presented research papers at the International Society for Music Education, the National American Choral Directors Association convention, the Southeastern Music Education Symposium, the Texas Music Educators Association, and has presented research studies at several national conventions of MENC.