Dr. Vernon M. Whaley is president of Integra Music Group, a music publishing company based in Nashville, TN.   Dr. Whaley, along with Dr. Tim Sharp, has spearheaded the creation and production of Integra Music Group’s CLASSIC MASTERPIECES FOR YOUNG VOICES. He has published arrangements, compositions, and orchestrations with well-known Christian music publishers, created several musicals, and edited two popular hymnals.

 Dr. Whaley is also Director of the Liberty University Center for Worship and Chairman of the Department of Music and Worship Studies at Liberty University. He has distinguished himself as a teacher of church music and worship for better than 30 years.  Recently serving as Minister of Music at the Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida, Dr. Whaley has led worship ministries in churches at Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, , and Florida .  He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in Music Education (Theory/Composition Concentration) and a D. Min. from Luther Rice Seminary (Church Music Ministry Concentration).

He is a favorite of music directors, worship leaders, and pastors at conferences, music retreats, and worship seminars. He is known as a creative choral arranger, dynamic worship leader, and effective conference speaker. Dr. Whaley has two published books:  The Dynamics of Corporate Worship (Baker) and Understanding Music and Worship in the Local Church (Evangelical Training Association).

 Dr. Whaley is well known for his practical orchestrations, creative combination and blending of orchestral instrumentation, and unique treatment of choral texture with orchestra.

 Dr. Whaley is married to Beth and lives in Lynchburg, VA.   They have two adult children that live in Nashville, Tennessee area.

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