Director of the Community Chorus
- Office: Clayton Center for the Arts
- Department: Division of Fine Arts
- Phone: 865-981-8223
- Email: dwight.dockery@maryvillecollege.edu
- Education: BM, Maryville College, MM, East Carolina University, DMA, University of South Carolina
Dr. Dwight Dockery is currently the Director of Music at First United Methodist Church in Maryville, Tennessee. Previously, he has served in various United Methodist and Presbyterian (USA) churches in North and South Carolina and as conductor of the Concert Choir and New Carolina Sinfonia at Greenville Choral Society (North Carolina). His academic appointments have included director of choral music at North Carolina Wesleyan College (Rocky Mount, North Carolina), as academic advisor for the East Carolina University School of Music (North Carolina), and as instructor of music theory and aural skills at the University of South Carolina and East Carolina University.
As a composer, Dockery has had solo, choral, and instrumental works performed by soloists and choirs throughout the southeast. He also has been featured as tenor soloist with the Chowan University Masterworks series, the Orchestra at Maryville College, the Greenville Choral Society and New Carolina Sinfonia, the Palmetto Mastersingers, and other ensembles.