Episcopal Diocese of Maryland Committee on Liturgy and Music Church Musicians’ Retreat 2016

Friday & Saturday ■ September 9 - 10 Claggett Center ■ Buckeystown, Maryland

FRIDAY ■ SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 5:30 p.m. Registration begins, The Christiane Inn You may arrive early if you want to enjoy the Claggett campus or help set up.

6:15 Dinner in Sugarloaf Hall 7:15 Keynote Address: The Call of the Sacred Musician The Rev. Dr. Victoria Sirota 9:00 Eucharist, St. Andrew’s Chapel 10:00 The BACHanalia, Monocacy Hall

SATURDAY ■ SEPTEMBER 10

Program in St. Andrew’s Chapel; meals in Sugarloaf Hall. 8:00 a.m. Breakfast 9:00 Jeremy Filsell: Service Playing A to Zed 10:30 Browse the Musical Source display for new music 11:00 Sarah Hoover: Strategies and Conditioning for Life-long Singing 12:30 Lunch 1:30-3:00 Anthem Reading: From the Committee Archives Now in its 15th year, the Church Musicians’ Retreat at Claggett Center provides area musicians the opportunity to make music together, exchange ideas, and to celebrate the ministry that is ours to the Church. Claggett Center is situated above the Monocacy River in Frederick County, Maryland, an idyllic setting for fun and inspiration as we embark on a new season of sacred music making.

Claggett’s website is loaded with information and directions to Buckeystown www.claggettcenter.org. QUESTIONS? RETREAT COMMITTEE: Rosemary Beakes, St. Mark’s, Highland, [email protected]; Ken Brown, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Baltimore, [email protected]; Edward McGee, Memorial Church, Baltimore, [email protected]; Richard Strattan, [email protected].

Register online at http://bit.ly/29DY7Cc or mail this completed registration form and a check payable to Claggett Center to: Claggett Center ■ PO Box 40 ■ Buckeystown, MD 21717 ☐ Single room & three meals $170 ☐ Church Musicians’ Retre at September 9-10, 2016 Shared room & three meals $140 ☐ Commuter & three meals $110 ☐ ☐ Female Male First time at Claggett? ☐ Saturday only, with lunch $85 Name: Your church & position: Your mailing address: Phone number(s) Email address: Roommate preference: (for shared room) Please indicate any dietary or accessibility requirements:

Registrations should be received by August 15 to guarantee music for the anthem reading session.

VICTORIA SIROTA, the keynote speaker for our very first Musicians’ Retreat in 2001, is an Episcopal priest, lecturer, author and organist. She holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Boston University and Harvard Divinity School, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She has taught at Yale Divinity School, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary and University, and Boston University. Former National Chaplain for the American Guild of Organists, Chair of the Professional Concerns Committee for the Association of Anglican Musicians, and Coordinator of the 1990 National AGO Convention in Boston, she is the author of articles, reviews and hymns. She is recorded on Northeastern, Gasparo and Albany Records and her book Preaching to the Choir: Claiming the Role of Sacred Musician is available from Church Publishing. Previous positions include Vicar of the Church of the Holy Nativity in Baltimore, MD, Canon Pastor and Vicar at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, and Dean of the Harlem Clericus. The Reverend Dr. Sirota is currently Priest-in-Charge at Saint John's Episcopal Church in Yonkers, NY.

JEREMY FILSELL has established a concert career as one of only a few virtuoso performers on both the and the Organ. A Limpus prize winner and Silver Medallist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians for FRCO as a teenager, Jeremy graduated from Oxford University as at Keble College. As a post-graduate he studied at the . He completed a PhD at Birmingham Conservatoire/Birmingham City University examining aesthetic and interpretative issues in the music of Marcel Dupré. During the course of his career he has held posts at Cranleigh School, Ely Cathedral, St Luke's Chelsea, St Peter's Eaton Square, the London Oratory School, Royal Holloway College University of London and . Until 2008, he combined teaching posts at the in London and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with a lay clerkship in the choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He lives and works now principally in the USA and combines international performing and teaching activities with being Artist-in-Residence at Washington National Cathedral, Director of Music at the Church of the Epiphany and Professor of Organ at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

SARAH HOOVER, DMA, is Special Assistant to the Dean for Innovation, Interdisciplinary Partnerships, and Community Initiatives at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She is strategic lead for the development of new programs and partnerships, and co- directing an interdisciplinary Center for Music and Medicine. Prior to her position at Peabody, she was Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Hofstra University where she taught voice and vocal pedagogy. She is outgoing Eastern Regional Governor of NATS, former president of NATS-NYC and Associate Editor of NYSTA’s journal VOICEPrints. In addition to earning a B.A. in Medieval Studies from Yale and a D.M.A. from Peabody Conservatory, she has trained in voice science with Margaret Baroody, Anat Keidar, and at the Johns Hopkins Center for Laryngeal and Voice Disorders. Her workshops on body awareness/body learning include presentations for the Voice Foundation, National Association of Teachers of Singing, Royal School of Church Music, and Washington National Opera, among others. She has chaired NATS- NYC’s recent series of workshops, “Body Issues/Somatic Solutions,” which gather somatic educators from diverse disciplines to address the use of the body in singing. Dr. Hoover is also a music journalist and lecturer on music history. Her work has been published by the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Grove Dictionary of American Music and Chamber Music magazine. She founded and served as Executive Director of Oyster Bay Music Festival, a performance training program and concurrent classical music festival in Oyster Bay, NY.