Greetings from the Department of Con- ducting, Organ, and Sacred Music. The strength and magic of Westminster’s his- tory and tradition have been brought into full perspective with gravity and passion during this academic year. The collective commitment to excellence in teaching, leadership, and performance continues to guide our faculty and students as our community enjoys a busy and successful spring semester. choirs, youth choirs, urban music, and more. We are creating a new master’s degree in the Sacred Music track that will allow church musicians from all over the world to obtain a degree from Westmin- ster through study online and during the summer. Our department is also collabo- rating with Princeton Theological Semi- nary to teach courses in Sacred Music, and continues to provide internships to students in area churches as conductors, singers, and organists. The Westminster Symphonic Choir, con- ducted by Director of Choral Activities Dr. Joe Miller, gave a magnificent perfor- mance of Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil, DEAR COLLEAGUES, ALUMNI, AND FRIENDS, The Sacred Music Department and West- minster’s Office of Continuing Education presented the annual Kemp Church Mu- sic Symposium this past October, which involved sessions by Westminster profes- sors Tom Shelton and Dr. Kathy Price as well as Dr. Michael Kemp, and a hymn- sing accompanied by Westminster Organ professor Daryl Robinson. Prof. Robinson has earned extensive praise for his col- laborative playing in Westminster’s major performance events, and maintains a very active schedule as a recitalist and teacher. He was featured on the recent Westminster Williamson Voices recording Carolae: Music for Christmas (James Whitbourn), conducted by Dr. James Jor- dan. The Sacred Music and Organ areas continue to present campus worship ser- vices throughout the semester, prepared by the students and faculty of Sacred Music Lab and Colloquium. Our fall Com- munity Sing-In, held in Bristol Chapel, gave our talented Sacred Music graduate students the opportunity to conduct Hay- dn’s Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo. Westminster Jubilee Singers recently gained a new conductor with the appoint- ment of Mr. Courtney Carey, a graduate of Morehouse College and Eastman School of Music. Prof. Tom Shelton is continuing his important work with the Westminster Neighborhood Children’s Choir, bringing music into the lives of Princeton- and Trenton-area youth, while providing in- ternship experiences for our students. Dr. Steve Pilkington, associate professor of Sacred Music, is spearheading the devel- opment of exciting new undergraduate and graduate programs in Sacred Music, including courses in plainchant and mod- ern music and tracks in adult church Organ Department Celebrates Joan Lippincott, Announces Events and Recitals 3 Joan Lippincott ’57, ’61, (hon.) ’01: A Westminster Legend 5 Where Are You Now? Updates From Three Recent Alumni 6 Summer Seminars for Ringing Leadership, Taught by Kathleen Ebling Shaw ’85 8 Arvo Pärt and the Faith Experience 9 Sacred Music Promotes Lifelong Singing, from Young Achievers to Mature Voices 10 RSCM America/Westminster Choir College Youth Choir Festival 11 Upcoming 2017 Events — Join Us! 12 IN THIS ISSUE: CONDUCTING ORGAN SACRED MUSIC Conducting, Organ, and Sacred Music Newsletter Spring 2017 continued on page 2 Guest conductor Gary Thor Wedow welcomes singers in Chapel Choir and Schola Cantorum to a rehearsal for Mozart’s Requiem on February 8, 2017
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Greetings from the Department of Con-
ducting, Organ, and Sacred Music. The
strength and magic of Westminster’s his-
tory and tradition have been brought into
full perspective with gravity and passion
during this academic year. The collective
commitment to excellence in teaching,
leadership, and performance continues to
guide our faculty and students as our
community enjoys a busy and successful
spring semester.
choirs, youth choirs, urban music, and
more. We are creating a new master’s
degree in the Sacred Music track that will
allow church musicians from all over the
world to obtain a degree from Westmin-
ster through study online and during the
summer. Our department is also collabo-
rating with Princeton Theological Semi-
nary to teach courses in Sacred Music,
and continues to provide internships to
students in area churches as conductors,
singers, and organists.
The Westminster Symphonic Choir, con-
ducted by Director of Choral Activities Dr.
Joe Miller, gave a magnificent perfor-
mance of Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil,
DEAR COLLEAGUES, ALUMNI, AND FRIENDS,
The Sacred Music Department and West-
minster’s Office of Continuing Education
presented the annual Kemp Church Mu-
sic Symposium this past October, which
involved sessions by Westminster profes-
sors Tom Shelton and Dr. Kathy Price as
well as Dr. Michael Kemp, and a hymn-
sing accompanied by Westminster Organ
professor Daryl Robinson. Prof. Robinson
has earned extensive praise for his col-
laborative playing in Westminster’s major
performance events, and maintains a
very active schedule as a recitalist and
teacher. He was featured on the recent
Westminster Williamson Voices recording
Carolae: Music for Christmas (James
Whitbourn), conducted by Dr. James Jor-
dan. The Sacred Music and Organ areas
continue to present campus worship ser-
vices throughout the semester, prepared
by the students and faculty of Sacred
Music Lab and Colloquium. Our fall Com-
munity Sing-In, held in Bristol Chapel,
gave our talented Sacred Music graduate
students the opportunity to conduct Hay-
dn’s Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo.
Westminster Jubilee Singers recently
gained a new conductor with the appoint-
ment of Mr. Courtney Carey, a graduate of
Morehouse College and Eastman School
of Music. Prof. Tom Shelton is continuing
his important work with the Westminster
Neighborhood Children’s Choir, bringing
music into the lives of Princeton- and
Trenton-area youth, while providing in-
ternship experiences for our students. Dr.
Steve Pilkington, associate professor of
Sacred Music, is spearheading the devel-
opment of exciting new undergraduate
and graduate programs in Sacred Music,
including courses in plainchant and mod-
ern music and tracks in adult church
Organ Department Celebrates Joan
Lippincott, Announces Events and
Recitals
3
Joan Lippincott ’57, ’61, (hon.) ’01:
A Westminster Legend
5
Where Are You Now? Updates
From Three Recent Alumni
6
Summer Seminars for Ringing
Leadership, Taught by Kathleen
Ebling Shaw ’85
8
Arvo Pärt and the Faith Experience 9
Sacred Music Promotes Lifelong
Singing, from Young Achievers to
Mature Voices
10
RSCM America/Westminster Choir
College Youth Choir Festival
11
Upcoming 2017 Events — Join Us! 12
IN THIS ISSUE:
CONDUCTING
ORGAN
SACRED MUSIC
Conducting, Organ, and Sacred Music Newsletter
Spring 2017
continued on page 2
Guest conductor Gary Thor Wedow welcomes
singers in Chapel Choir and Schola Cantorum
to a rehearsal for Mozart’s Requiem on
February 8, 2017
Op. 37, presented through the New York
Philharmonic’s Tchaikovsky Festival this
past February. The performance, sung by
nearly 200 of Westminster’s juniors, sen-
iors, and graduate students, filled the
rafters of the Church of St. Paul the Apos-
tle in New York City. Symphonic Choir is
now preparing Britten’s War Requiem for
performances with The Philadelphia Or-
chestra and conductor Charles Dutoit in
March, and will perform Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony with The Philadelphia
Orchestra this May.
Westminster Choir College has estab-
lished a relationship with The Juilliard
School, a vision of our new dean,
Matthew Shaftel, and our department.
Westminster Chapel Choir (Dr. Amanda
Quist, conductor) and Westminster Schola
Cantorum (Dr. James Jordan, conductor)
collaborated in a performance of Mozart’s
Requiem in D Minor with The Juilliard
School’s orchestra, conducted by Gary
Thor Wedow. This was a new venture for
these ensembles, and provided the op-
portunity of singing this masterwork in
Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center as well as
bringing the Juilliard students to perform
in the Princeton University Chapel.
Westminster Kantorei, conducted by Dr.
Amanda Quist, will collaborate with Juil-
liard 415, that school’s early music en-
semble, in their joint April concert with a
performance of Buxtehude’s Membra
Jesu Nostri. Kantorei was recently invited
to perform at the Boston Early Music Fes-
tival, and completed its first recording in
March. Kantorei embarked on its first
European tour this past summer, perform-
ing as an invited choir for the Festival en
l’Île in Paris and touring throughout Eng-
land. Westminster choral musicologist Dr.
Carolann Buff participated in the tour,
providing students with a deepened un-
derstanding of the incredible spaces in
which they performed through lectures
and visits to libraries to see original man-
uscripts and documents. Dr. Buff is an
Conducting, Organ, and Sacred Music Newsletter Page 2
invaluable member of the department,
teaching graduate courses in choral litera-
ture, performance practice, and more. Her
essay “The Italian Job: Ciconia, Du Fay,
and the Musical Aesthetics of the 15th-
Century Italian Motet,” forthcoming in Qui
musicam in se habet: Essays in Honor of
Alejandro Enrique Planchart, explores the
motet genre in the period between the
end of the Middle Ages and the beginning
of the musical Renaissance.
Westminster Choir, conducted by Dr. Joe
Miller, has been invited to represent the
United States in performance at the World
Choral Symposium in Barcelona, Spain in
July 2017. Westminster Williamson Voic-
es, conducted by Dr. James Jordan, re-
cently finished a recording session for
GIA’s Teaching Music through Perfor-
mance series, and has released addition-
al recordings over the past year. Dr. Jor-
dan was also recently honored with the
distinguished alumni medal from Susque-
hanna University, and will again lead the
Choral Institute at Oxford with James
Whitbourn and Dr. Steve Pilkington this
July. The Westminster Concert Bell Choir,
conducted by Kathleen Shaw, has a se-
ries of performances throughout the
spring semester, and will embark on its
annual tour in May. Westminster Schola
Cantorum toured the Mid-Atlantic U.S. in
March. Westminster Choir just completed
a tour that brought them through Ohio
and the South, and included a perfor-
mance at the Florida Music Educators’
Association conference. Westminster
Chapel Choir will host its annual High
School Invitational Festival this March,
bringing over 400 high school singers to
the Westminster campus.
We are very proud of our students and
alumni, and are excited to see the growth
and success of the thousands of organ-
ists, church leaders, teachers, performers,
and conductors who have come through
Westminster Choir College. This is indeed
a magical place, and we are fed by the
strength of our illustrious past as we en-
thusiastically explore the most effective
ways to continue Westminster’s legacy in
the future. A special thank you to all who
support the work and tradition of West-
minster Choir College, the only school of
its kind in the world.
Amanda Quist
Associate Professor of Conducting
Chair of Conducting, Organ, and Sacred
Music
Our recent graduates and current
students are accepting positions and
entering graduate schools throughout
the world:
Nicola Bertoni M.M. ’16 began teaching
in the choral department at Fullerton
College this past year
Matthew Brady M.M. ’15 is finishing a
doctorate at the University of North
Texas, and is studying with London
Symphony Chorus director Simon Halsey
this year
Stephanie Council M.M. ’15 began as
director of choral activities at Mount
Holyoke College this fall
Meaghan King M.M. ’12 will graduate
with a D.M.A. from the University of
Southern California in May
Edward Landin ’12 recently had an an-
thology of organ works titled Flourishes
and Reflections published by Lorenz
J.J. Mitchell ’17 has been accepted to
the University of Notre Dame’s Master of
Sacred Music program with a full-ride
scholarship and stipend
James Roman ’14, ’16 has been
appointed organist and coordinator of
worship ministries at Grace Presbyterian
Church in Houston, Tex.
Joel Trekell ’17 will be the organ scholar
at Hereford Cathedral in the U.K. begin-
ning in August
DEAR COLLEAGUES, ALUMNI, AND FRIENDS continued from page 1