Milburn Price, born 9 April 1938 in Electric Mills, Mississippi, was Dean of the School of Performing Arts at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama from 1993 to 2006.
Prior to that he was Dean of the School of Church Music at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky from 1981 to 1993.
[1] During the 2011–2012 academic year he was Visiting Professor and Acting Chair of Choral Music at Stetson University.
He has been the recipient of an annual ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) Award each year since 1980.
He is co-author of The Dialogue of Worship (1998, with Gary Furr) and A Survey of Christian Hymnody (with William J. Reynolds and David Music, 4th edition, 1999).