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Florida ACDA, Total ________ Email: o Check o Please bill my church Tallahassee Chapter AGO o MasterCard o Visa o Discover [email protected] CC # Expires Security Code www.churchmusicinstitute.org St. John’s Episcopal Church 211 North Monroe Street Return to: Church Music Institute Tallahassee, FL 32301 7557 Rambler Road, Suite 420 (850) 222-2636 Dallas, TX 75231 SCHEDULE Keynote Speaker Don E. Saliers is Wm. R. Cannon Professor of Theology and Worship, Sarah Eyerly, Assistant Professor of Thursday, January 22, 2015 Emeritus, at Emory University, Atlanta, Musicology and Director of the Early Georgia, and is adjunct professor at St. John’s Music Program at Florida State 5:00 – 6:30 PM Registration (Graham Lounge) University School of Theology, Collegeville, University, holds a Ph. D. in musicology 7:00 – 7:45 PM Choral Evensong (Sanctuary) Minnesota. A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan and criticism from the University of University, Yale Divinity School, with California, Davis, and a M. M. in 8:00 – 9:15 PM Organ Recital – Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra doctoral work at Cambridge and Yale historical performance practices from the Universities. he served as President of the Society for the Study of Friday, January 23, 2015 Mannes College of Music. She has Christian Spirituality, and the North American Academy of Liturgy, taught at Butler University, UCLA, and the University of Southern 8:20 – 8:40 AM Morning Prayer (Chapel) from whom he received the Berakah Award in 1992.. Before joining California, and has been appointed as a visiting scholar with UCLA’s Emory University in 1974, he taught at Yale Divinity School and has 8:45 – 9:45 AM Keynote I: The Lamentable – Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies. She is taught in the summer programs at St. John’s University (Collegeville, currently working on a book manuscript, Utopia Improvised: the Don Saliers (Sanctuary) MN), Notre Dame, Boston College, Vancouver School of Theology, Heavenly Lotteries of the Moravian Church. and more recently at Boston University School of Theology. For many 9:55 – 10:55 AM Workshop – Choir as the Community years he directed the Sacred Music Program at Emory, and has been Bridge Builder - Ryan Luhrs/ André Thomas (Choir organist/choirmaster at Cannon Chapel for 35 years. Iain Quinn was born in Cardiff, Room) Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra Wales. He grew up as a chorister at Llandaff Cathedral, also studying the 11:00 – 12:00 PM Workshop: Moravian Hymnody – resuscitates historic improvisation pedagogy in her acclaimed publications, Bach and the Art of organ, piano, and trumpet. At fourteen, he Sarah Eyerly (Choir Room) Improvisation (professional-level), Improvisation was appointed Organist at St. Michael’s 12:00 – 1:30 PM Lunch Endeavors (entry-level), and Muse (a capella Theological College, Llandaff. In 1994 works for children), published by CHI Press. he moved to the USA for study at The 1:30 – 2:30 PM Workshop: Organ Repertoire – Iain Ruiter-Feenstra performs solo recitals and hymn Juilliard School, the University of Hartford (BM summa cum laude) Quinn (Organ Loft) festivals throughout North America and Europe and the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University (MM), returning and early music concerts with Voci dell’Anima. to the UK in 2009 as a Doctoral Fellow at the University of Durham Workshop: Aging Voice – Larry Gerber (Choir Room) She composes liturgical organ and choral works; conducts choral and (PhD historical musicology). He holds the diplomas of Fellow of 2:35 – 3:35 PM Workshop: Improvisation as Musical chamber music ensembles; leads choral, historic keyboard, and sacred the Royal College of Organists, and the Royal Schools of Music (with distinction), and is the recipient of a Winston Churchill Health – Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra (Organ Loft) music workshops; and presents and teaches improvisation courses on historical instruments nationally and internationally. Fellowship. He has given guest lectures at universities across the USA and papers for the American Musicological Society and the Workshop: Small Choir Reading Session – Robert Mann Royal Musical Association. Dr. Quinn is Assistant Professor of (Choir Room) Charlotte Kroeker is executive director of Organ at Florida State University. Church Music Institute. A frequent lecturer, 3:40 – 4:40 PM Workshop: Piano in Worship – performing pianist and church musician, she is Charlotte Kroeker (Choir Room) the author of Music in Christian Worship Larry Gerber, tenor, received his Bachelor of Music degree from Fort 4:45 – 5:45 PM Keynote II: The Prophetic – Don Saliers (Liturgical Press, 2005) and The Sounds We Offer (Alban Press, 2011). She is also the piano Hays Kansas State University and his (Sanctuary) review editor for The Pastoral Musician, the Master of Music degree from Colorado 7:00 – 8:15 PM Hymn Festival (Sanctuary) journal of the National Association of Pastoral State University. Mr. Gerber received Musicians. additional operatic training as an 8:45 – 9:20 PM St. John’s Compline Choir (Sanctuary) Apprentice Artist with the Santa Fe Opera and as a member of the Merola Robert C. Mann is Director of the CMI Music Saturday, January 24, 2015 Opera Program in San Francisco. Mr. Gerber has performed opera, Resource Library and Professor Emeritus of oratorio and recitals in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, 8:20 – 8:40 AM Morning Prayer (Chapel) Music at Stephen F. Austin State University, Central America and Pakistan. In July, 2014 Mr. Gerber retired Nacogdoches, Texas, where he taught 8:45 – 9:45 AM Keynote III: The Praiseworthy – Don from Florida State University. He had served on the College of undergraduate and graduate courses in organ, Music faculty since 1979. Saliers (Sanctuary) musicology, and church music. He has served 9:55-10:55 AM Workshop: Service Playing – Iain churches for over forty years as organist or André J. Thomas, the Owen F. Quinn (Organ Loft) organist-choirmaster and as recitalist in solo Sellers Professor of Music, is organ repertoire, organ duets, and music for two Workshop: A Place in the Choir, A Choir in the Place – Director of Choral Activities and organs. He is a frequent lecturer on hymnody in Professor of Choral Music Education Charlotte Kroeker (Choir Room) worship. at Florida State University. A 11:10 -11:55 PM FSU Early Music Ensembles Concert Ryan Luhrs is in his third year of study at previous faculty member at the 12:00-12:30 PM Closing Service (Sanctuary) Florida State University, where he is pursuing a University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Thomas received his degrees from Ph.D. in Music Education/Choral Conducting, Friends University (B.A.), Northwestern University (M. M.), and and is choir director and organist at St. Thomas the University of Illinois (D.M.A). He is in demand as a choral Episcopal Church in Thomasville, GA. He holds a Master of Sacred adjudicator, clinician, and director of Honor/All-State Choirs Music degree from Luther Seminary (with St. Olaf College) and a throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, and B.A. in Music from Luther College in Decorah, IA. Australia. .