Each of the components of KnoxCAM has its own gifted, skilled, and dedicated director. We are very thankful for all of our awesome directors! Learn more below.
Jill Lagerberg, KnoxCAM Director, is excited and grateful to be able to use the uniqe and powerful medium of performing arts to glorify God and share the good news that there is always a second chance through salvation in Jesus.
Jill holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Music, summa cum laude, from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. She holds the degrees of Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance from The University of Michigan.
For eight years she was Professor of Music and Chair of the music program at Johnson Bible College (now Johnson University) in Knoxville, where she taught choral conducting, private voice, and music theory, and directed the college choirs and traveling ensembles.
She has served as the Children’s Chorus Director for the Knoxville Opera Company and for ten years was the Co-Director of the Knoxville Children’s Choir. She has directed children’s, youth, and adult church choirs in North Carolina, Michigan, and Tennessee, most recently as the Sanctuary Choir Director at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church in Knoxville. Ensembles under her direction have sung in Chicago, Boston, New York, Orlando, and Williamsburg; and internationally in England, Poland, Austria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Peru. She has been the Director of KnoxCAM since its inception in 2009.
Her voice teachers have included Teresa Radomski, Lorna Haywood, George Bitzas, and Marjorie Stephens. She is a former member of the Knoxville Choral Society and Chamber Chorale and the John Ribble Singers.
She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa/Mortarboard Honor Societies, the American Choral Directors Association, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
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Trey Lindsay, Orchestra Director, is a Knoxville native and graduate of Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education K-12. He is an employee of Knox County Schools teaching K-5 General Music. Trey is an accomplished pianist and percussionist, and he has been very involved in church music programs throughout East Tennessee, having served in numerous churches as pianist and choir director. Presently he is the Instrumental Director at Central Baptist Church of Bearden. Trey has a passion for music and for collaboration with other musicians, rejoicing in the possibilities it creates to use music as a ministry, whether teaching, performing a concert, or leading in worship.
Laura Lindsay, Handbell Director, is a graduate of Carson-Newman University where she studied Church Music and received a Bachelor of Music degree with a Minor in Religion. She also completed her Master of Counseling degree at Carson-Newman with an emphasis in Spiritual Guidance and Care/Mental Behavioral Health. Her music background includes studies in piano, organ, and voice and has led to travel in the Southeast and abroad in Germany, Austria, and Israel with various choirs for tour performances. Laura is a member of Delta Omicron Professional Music Fraternity and served as a regional president from 2011-2014. She has been ringing handbells for more than fifteen years and is overjoyed to have the opportunity to direct with KnoxCAM.
Leann Dickson, Drama Director, is a retired high school drama teacher and taught at Bearden High School for 21 of her 31- year career. She also taught in California, Hawaii, Georgia and Alabama. She has worked with KnoxCam Ministries since 2009 and also directs summer musicals for the WordPlayers for whom she has directed Godspell, The Fantasticks, Ragtime, The Secret Garden, Big River, Jane Eyre and Bright Star, and Footloose. When she is not in a theatre, she enjoys hiking, biking, boating, and spoiling her Shih Tzu, Moby alongside her dear husband of 38 years, Jim Dickson.
Lydia Alford, Dance Director, began dancing in 1997 and initially studied sacred/interpretative dance under Judy Mandeville, the protégée of sacred dance pioneer Dr. Margaret Fisk Taylor-Doane. Soon after, she began training in ballet and later obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Belhaven University in 2011. While studying at Belhaven, she studied the Vaganova method of Ballet Teaching Methods and performed through the community with the Dance Ministry Ensemble. She created a set of “Movement Devotions” as a part of her graduation project and hopes to compile a full book one day to help make the use of dance in worship and personal devotional time more accessible to trained dancers and non-dancers alike. Since graduating, she has taught ballet classes to children (of all ages) and adults ranging from beginners to pre professional dancers. She began setting choreography on her classmates at 12 years old and continues to enjoy creating ballet, modern and contemporary dance works. At a recent competition in March 2021, her ballet piece “Rhapsody in Blue” received a judge’s choice choreography award. Professionally, she danced with Intersect Dance Collective in Jackson, MS from 2012-2014 and is now a core member of Circle Modern Dance in Knoxville, TN. Currently, she teaches at Premiere Dance Studio in Seymour, TN. She is passionate about using dance in ministry, making dance accessible to dancers of all body types and skill levels and enjoys sharing her love of dance through performing and teaching. Being a part of KnoxCam has been like “coming home” to her roots of worship dance and she is so thankful for the opportunity to serve and love others through this ministry.