Paul T. Plew

Paul T. Plew, ED.D., has been the chairperson of the Music Department and Director of Choral Activities at The Master's College since 1979. He was educated at Baptist Bible College of Pennsylvania; Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington; and received his Doctorate in Education with Music specialization from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is a member of the American Choral Director's Association, cofounder and past president of the Santa Clarita Music Educators Association, and past president of the National Association of Church Musicians (formerly Choral Conductors Guild).

Dr. Plew has adjudicated for, as well as participated in, numerous choral festivals around the nation. His emphasis in the classroom includes conducting, church music-related classes, chorale, and hymnology. He conducts the Collegiate Singers, a 130-voice campus choir, the Master's Chorale, a 60-member choir, and Majesty, a small contemporary directions group. He has led these groups on tours to England, Ireland, Russia, Canada, Italy, Israel, Germany, Spain and virtually every state in the union. His choirs have recorded for Word, Fred Bock Music, Lillenas Publishing, and Pavanne Publishing companies and Ligonier's Ministries as well as numerous custom albums for the college.

In addition to his ministry at the college, he also serves as Music Pastor at Santa Clarita Baptist Church in Canyon Country, California. His family includes Pamela, his wife of 40 years; his children, Paul Timothy II, Janelle Plew Sonnenburg, and Jason David Plew; and his grandchildren, Farrell Elizabeth and Paul Timothy III Plew, Arianna Jean and Catalina Jo Sonnenburg, Aiden David, and Hazel Arbel Plew.