Sherry Blevins is a sought-after artist and award-winning composer, lyricist, music educator, and Founder/Director of ICCI: the International Choral Composers Institute to launch in July 2025. Since 2018, she has had more than 30 works published by Fred Bock Publishing, Colla Voce, Jocelyn Hagen Music, Alfred, Gentry, BriLee, and Hinshaw Music where she was awarded her own series. She has composed for singers and choirs around the globe including being selected as Composer-in-Residence for National Concerts premiering her “Awaken” at Carnegie Hall in 2024. She was the first composer to win the SoCo Bluebonnet Composition Initiative of SoCo Women’s Chorus and was winner of the Claremont Chorale’s Composition Contest. She was also selected to attend Opera Lucca’s Composer’s Institute in Lucca, Italy where she premiered two works; and was twice selected to attend the CORO Composer’s Institute in Iowa. She is proud to be a student of internationally acclaimed composer, Dr. Raphael Fusco.

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She has also been commissioned by VOX Femina Los Angeles, Western Alaska’s Region 1 Festival, West Vancouver Schools’ Honour Choirs, Indiana and Oklahoma All-State High School Mixed Choruses, renowned soprano, Rebecca Cook-Carter, West Virginia ACDA Mixed Honor Choir, Tennessee All-State Treble choir, Durham Elementary All-County Chorus, The Chattanooga Boys Choir, the Piedmont Invitational Choral Festival, South Carolina Music Educators National Conference, Young Voices of the Carolinas, The Cincinnati Boychoir, Santa Monica College, Virginia Commonwealth University, and many others.

According to Hinshaw Music, “Sherry Blevins, a luminary in the world of choral composition and education, orchestrates harmonies that resonate with the soul. Her musical expertise is surpassed only by her dedication to nurturing the next generation of voices, making her a revered figure in both composition and education.”

 

Sherry’s latest passion is working with choirs on composing projects and to date, has many pieces that have been published as a result of these projects. She also frequently serves as a clinician, conductor, adjudicator for competitions and festivals, and holds workshops on conducting techniques, the motivation of singers, and rehearsal planning. For 13 years, Sherry served as University Supervisor of Student Teachers for Appalachian State University where she was twice the recipient of the college’s teaching award given for her work with future music educators. She is also the co-creator of a poster series designed to prepare students for music performance adjudication that is available at Dynamic Music Education Products.

 

Sherry has a bachelor’s degree in music education with a principal in voice from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a master’s degree in music education with a concentration in choral conducting from Appalachian State University. Her hope is that whether through composing or teaching, that the music she shares will bring hope, life, and light to others.