GBA-Our Director

Our Director

Meet our director, Roxanne B. Golden. Roxanne is a Music Education graduate of Georgia State University. It was at GSU that she became attuned to the beauty of handbells and since then has organized and developed handbell programs throughout various churches in the metro Atlanta area.

Roxanne began her music career at the age of 12, serving as pianist and organist for her home church. Since then she has never met a keyboard or handbell she did not like! Over the years she has been committed to the music ministries of various Atlanta churches. She is currently the Music and Worship leader for Jasper United Methodist Church in Jasper, Georgia.

Some of Roxanne's handbell credentials:

Active in American Guild of English Handbell Ringers (AEGHR)
Director, staff member in Area IV and National Festivals (too many to list)
Served as Georgia State Chair
Active clinician and conductor at various workshops
Has served on handbell staff at Lake Junaluska
Served on committee to plan Pinnacle Handbell Festival

Roxanne is also an accomplished arranger and composer of handbell music and our concerts usually feature one or two of her arrangements, some of which have been published.

Roxanne is a native of Atlanta and currently resides in Big Canoe, Georgia with her husband Dr. James Golden and their three sons, Andy, Christopher, and Joshua. Rounding out the Golden family is their dog, Oreo, and a huge black spider in the front yard that loves to be fed bugs from Joshua.