Meet the Founder

Mr. Robert Brack is a native of Brownsville, Tennessee and is the third child on the late Mr. Cobon Brack and Mrs. Opal V. Brack. He attended Tibbs Elementary  School and was a 1962 graduate of Carver High School. At Carver High School, Robert became most interested in choral music after enrolling in choir under the direction of Mrs. Katherine T. Henning as director.  He began piano studies with the distinguished piano teacher, Mrs. Jennie B. Vance.

Robert received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education from Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Brack also received a Master of Education Degree in Music Education from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Since that time he has pursued additional studies at Tennessee State University, Arkansas Tech University, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In the summer of l989, he was selected and granted a fellowship as one of ten outstanding music teachers nationwide to study at Northwestern University School of Music, Evanston, Illinois.

Robert Brack has received numerous honors and awards which include four Little Rock School District Employee Recognition and Superintendent’s Citation Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Education in Little Rock Public Schools. In 1986,  Mr. Brack was recognized as Arkansas Choral Director of the Year by the Arkansas Choral Directors Association. He was a 1989 recipient of the $5,000 prestigious Stephens Award for Outstanding High School Teachers in the Little Rock School District. The Central Region Choral Directors Association recognized Mr. Brack as  Central Region Distinguished Director for the 1994-95 school year at its All-Region Clinic and Concert. During the l996 All-Region Choir Clinic and Concert, the Directors Association once again bestowed the honor of Central Region Director of the Year upon Robert Brack. In l997, the Arkansas Choral Directors Association named him as Distinguished Director of the Year once again. 

Mr. Brack was recommended for and received the honor of being included in the l996 and 2002 Editions of “Who's Who Among America’s Teachers”. He also was one of the first three music educators selected to the Arkansas Music Educators Hall of Fame in the year 2000-2001. In 2001, the Little Rock School District added Robert Brack’s portrait to its “Wall of Fame” at the district’s central office building. Marquis Who’s Who Publishers included Mr. Brack in its 2003 Edition of Who’s Who in America and he was again included in the 2005 Edition. Upon retirement at the end of the 2002-2003 school year, the Little Rock School District Board of Directors named the Choral Music Department at Central High School, “The Robert L. Brack Choral Music Department” to honor him for excellence, his dedicated service, and in recognition for the many lives he touched over the twenty-eight years as Choral Director at Central High School.  When the Arkansas Choral Directors Association established the Arkansas Choral Directors “Hall of Fame” in 2022, Robert Brack was one of nine distinguished choral directors inducted into its initial Choral Directors Hall of Fame. 

Robert Brack’s career spans thirty-eight years as a music educator; teaching in public schools and as an adjunct voice instructor and director of choral music at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. Before the Little Rock Central High School choral director’s assignment for twenty-eight years, Robert Brack was a choral director in Swainsboro, Georgia, El Dorado, Arkansas, and at Horace Mann High School, Hall High School, and several junior high schools in the Little Rock School District. His choirs in those schools received excellent and superior rating at choral music festivals. The Little Rock Central High Madrigal Singers and Concert Choirs accumulated a most impressive record of superior ratings in performance and sight-reading at region and state choral music assessment festivals.  

Robert Brack has served as an adjudicator at choral music festivals throughout the state of Arkansas and in the states of Tennessee and Oklahoma. He has served the Central Region Choral Directors Association as Region Chairman, Invitational Festival Chairman, and served as Vice President for the Arkansas Music Educators Association for Choral Music. He formerly represented the interests of retired music educators on the AMEA Board of Directors. He holds membership in professional organizations such as the NEA, AEA, (MENC) NAfME, AMEA, ACDA, and is an honorary member of the ArkCDA. In addition to involvement in these organizations since retirement, Robert has composed over fifteen solo and choral music compositions. Robert is active in his church where he serves as organist. In November of 2023, Robert and his wife Lavell will have been married for forty-nine years and reside in Little Rock, Arkansas.