About our Director...

MARY BIDDLECOMBE is the newly appointed choral director at Tallahassee’s Lawton Chiles High School, where she directs a vocal program encompassing over 200 enrolled students. She directs five curricular ensembles including two sequential women’s choirs, a large men's chorus, two mixed ensembles, and the award-winning women's choir Belle Chantique. Mrs. Biddlecombe has taught music at every grade level, most recently as the choral director at Swift Creek Middle School.  She holds degrees from the Crane School of Music in New York State, and Florida State University.  Her choirs have performed for conventions of ACDA, as well as with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and Community Chorus under the direction of Miriam Burns and Dr. André Thomas, respectively. Mrs. Biddlecombe is an active member of MENC, ACDA, FVA and FMEA, and is in-demand as an adjudicator and clinician in the state of Florida. A native of Syracuse, NY, Mary makes her home in Tallahassee with her husband Tucker and two dogs.