Dr. David M. Royse is a Charter Board Member of the Summit Choral Collective and presently serves on the Board Development Committee and lends his many years of experience and wisdom to the leadership of the organization.

Dr. Royse has over thirty-nine years’ experience in the education field. He taught middle and high school band in the Kentucky public schools for five years, then spent ten years as a music education faculty member at Kansas State University, where he was a 1998 recipient of the William L. Stamey Undergraduate Teaching Award from the KSU College of Arts and Sciences. 

He was hired at the University of Tennessee in the fall of 2000, where he served as Coordinator of Music Education from 2002 until his retirement at the end of Fall Semester 2024. 

A frequent presenter at state and national conferences, he authored or co-authored articles in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Contributions to Music Education, Music Educators Journal, and Teacher Magazine. 

He is a Past President for the Southern Chapter of the College Music Society. He was the recipient of a 2004 University of Tennessee Citation for Excellence in Advising and the 2012 University of Tennessee School of Music Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a 2022 inductee into the Tennessee Music Education Association Hall of Fame and a 2025 inductee into the UT College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences’ Educators Hall of Honor.  He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education from Austin Peay State University and his doctoral degree in music education from Kent State University.