Tami Newsom
Tami Newsom is an accomplished musician and choral director and is proficient on a variety of instruments including the piano, organ, flute, and mountain dulcimer. She is a Past-Dean of the Knoxville Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She first began her musical career at the age of 6, learning to play piano. At age 13, under the guidance and tutelage of her music instructors, Robbie Roseberry and Peter Picerno, she began playing the organ at First Cumberland Presbyterian in Memphis, where she remained for 25 years. As an accomplished singer, Ms. Newsom was a member of a Memphis-based auditioned ensemble, The Wolf River Singers. Simultaneously, she was part of their elite Ensemble Singer program. She has sat in as a juried member in the euphonium section of many music students' final exams. She is the accompanist for the University of Tennessee Chamber Singers as well as collaborative artist for conducting classes at UT. She is Associate Director of Music at Farragut Presbyterian Church and pursuing her second career as a double major in sacred music and religious studies at the University of Tennessee.
TVP History
| Nine to Five Primary Accompanist | 2024 |
| Beauty and the Beast Primary Accompanist | 2023 |
| Something Rotten! Primary Accompanist | 2022 |
| Mamma Mia! Primary Accompanist Social Media | 2019 |
| Into the Woods Primary Accompanist | 2018 |
| Anything Goes Primary Accompanist | 2017 |
| Pirates of Penzance Primary Accompanist | 2016 |
| Les Miserables Primary Accompanist | 2015 |
| West Side Story Primary Accompanist | 2014 |
| South Pacific Primary Accompanist | 2013 |
| Of Thee I Sing Primary Accompanist | 2012 |
| Girl Crazy Primary Accompanist | 2011 |
| Curtains Primary Accompanist | 2010 |
| Kiss Me Kate Primary Accompanist | 2009 |
| Anything Goes Primary Accompanist | 2008 |
| Thoroughly Modern Millie Primary Accompanist | 2007 |
| Strike Up the Band Primary Accompanist | 2004 |