Ensemble Members
Music Director
Dr. Glen Hicks is a music teacher and musicologist from Provo, UT. He received his Ph.D. in Musicology from Arizona State University. Dr. Hicks also received his Master of Music History and Literature from Arizona State University in 2014 and his B.Mus. in Music Education from Southern Utah University in 2010. He is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University, where he teachers graduate courses in symphonic literature.
Dr. Hicks began ringing handbells over twenty years ago with the Utah Valley Handbell Choir under the direction of Karen Eskew-Wyllie. Since this time, he has served as the director of the Springville High School Handbell Choir and was also the founder and director of the Southern Utah Handbell Choir, which is now in its fifteenth year. Additionally, Dr. Hicks has performed as a soloist and has participated in the Bayview Week of Handbells, where he rang under the baton of Donald E. Allured and Carl Wiltse. His compositions for handbells include arrangements and original works and have been performed by choirs across the country. He recently served as the Mountain Sub Area Chair on the Area 11 Board of the Handbell Musicians of America.
In addition to his involvement with handbells, Dr. Hicks writes on aesthetics and the relationship between music, literature, architecture, and painting in the United States during the nineteenth century. His work was most recently featured in the Oxford Handbook of Community Singing (2024) and the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. He has presented his research at conferences of the American Musicological Association and the Society for American Music. Dr. Hicks is also an organist and pianist and has served on the board of the Utah Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.