John Carter – Composer/Arranger/Educator

John Carter, one of America’s Composer Icon’s of choral music, is now with HolySheetMusic.com  We are proud to present three pieces to kick off the John Carter collection:

I’m on My Journey Home – SATB

Flee as a Bird – Vocal Solo

My Soul Magnifies the Lord – Vocal Solo

Here’s a little more about Mr. Carter:

John Carter has enjoyed a long career as a choral director in high schools, colleges and churches. He presently teaches composition at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, OH, and teaches composition and voice to several private students.

He has composed over five hundred choral compositions, both sacred and secular, which are published by nearly a dozen publishers. He also has over fifty collections for piano in print, most of them for church use.

He and his wife, writer and pastor Mary Kay Beall often collaborate on choral compositions; she also has published compositions herself, and has written texts for several other composers as well. They are both Life Members of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.

He received a Bachelor of Music from Trinity University, San Antonio, TX and a Master of Music degree from Peabody College, Nashville, TN.