Andrew Owen serves as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Tennessee Wesleyan University. He received his PhD in music history from Louisiana State University in 2018, specializing in music as used in initiatory and social rituals. His English and music double-concentration BA was from Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi.

He also serves as the Director of Music at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Athens, Tennessee.

He is a charter member of the Baton Rouge Early Vocal Ensemble and Red Shift in Baton Rouge, and is a bass in the Chattanooga vocal ensemble Chorus Angelorum. He is a piper in the Alhambra Shriners’ Highlanders Bagpipe and Drum Unit, as well as an officer in several fraternal and civic organizations.

He is the National Historian of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the world’s oldest and largest secret society in music. He has served as the Province Governor of Mississippi, as well as various state- and chapter-level offices.

He is particularly interested in the rituals and philosophy of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry and has presented and published often on the rituals and the philosophy of the Order. He serves as the education officer of the Chattanooga bodies of the AASR.

His guiding philosophy is optimism—the world will not improve without an active positive presence in it that only you can provide.