Background
Kitchen, Otis Dorsey was born on July 5, 1931 in Williamsport, Maryland, United States. Son of Paul Dorsey Kitchen and Estella Oneil Byers.
Music Educator Professor Emeritus
Kitchen, Otis Dorsey was born on July 5, 1931 in Williamsport, Maryland, United States. Son of Paul Dorsey Kitchen and Estella Oneil Byers.
Bachelor of Science, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA, 1953. AG, Navy School of Music, Washington, District of Columbia, 1955. MM, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1964.
Doctor of Music in Music (honorary), National Conservatory of Mexico, Mexico City, 1982.
Public school teacher Greensville County Schools, Emporia, Virginia, 1953—1954. Director army band school United States Army Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina, 1954—1955. Public school teacher William Fleming High School, Roanoke, Virginia, 1956—1965.
College professor Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, 1965—1996. Church organist St. Paul's United Methodist, Lancaster, since 1966. Professor emeritus Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, since 1966, free lance music director, since 1966.
Music director All American Honors Musicians, Worldwide, 1980—1998, Mexican Invitational Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 1978—1988, London and Vienna Festivals, London, 1987—1999. Director of lancaster youth symhony Musical Art Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1966—1985. Specialist United States Army, 1954-1956, United States of America.
Director of music Elizabethtown Music Foundation, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, 1966—1971. Music consultant For Kids' Sake (Messiah Benefit), Hershey, 1985—1998, Rotary Club, Elizabethtown, 1996. Member of Lancaster PA Musical Art Society (board director), Phi Beta Mu, American Band Masters Association, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (Citation 1996), Elizabethtown PA Rotary Club (Citation 1975), National Band Association (board of directors 2002-2002).
Married Alma Irene Phibbs, June 18, 1955 (divorced March 13, 1979). Children: Sharon Lynn Cole, Gary Wayne.