Edwin T. Childs

Ed Childs (b. 1945) is a native of New Hampshire. He studied composition with Jack Goode at Wheaton College in Illinois (B.M.), and with Wayne Barlow and Samuel Adler at the Eastman School of Music (PhD). He has taught music theory and composition at Philadelphia College of Bible, Biola University in California, and currently teaches at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He is an arranger and composer of sacred and secular choral, vocal, keyboard, and instrumental works. Childs received the Illinois American Choral Directors Association Composition Award for 1998. His music has been issued by several publishers and he is a member of ASCAP.