Sandy Simmons was born in Hillsboro, Texas, September 27, 1946. She graduated from Baylor U. in 1969 with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory and Literature. In 1971 she
graduated from the University of North Texas with a Master of Music in Musicology and in 1980 from Baylor U. with a Doctorate in Pedagogy of Music.
She studied the required Theology courses for missionaries at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth in 1980. She taught at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, East
Texas State University in Texarkana and Texarkana College until 1978 when she began preparation to go to the mission field. She was appointed by the International Mission Board of
the Southern Baptist Convention in 1980 to serve as a music missionary to Brasil, where she served in three locations during the next 17 years – Blumenau, Rio de Janeiro, and Campinas.

In 2003 she returned to Brasil with Global Scholars, again as a music missionary and spent the next 13 years teaching music
in a medical school and serving as a minister of music in a church in Curitiba.
She has twice been invited and went to Paris to conduct her own compositions with a local orchestra.

Sandy retired in 2015 and currently lives in Winston-Salem,North Carolina, where she plays cello in two civic symphonies, teaches Bible, and composes and arranges music for orchestras
and chamber music groups.

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