CHAD FOTHERGILLin Church Music

The Vi Messerli Memorial

Concordia University ChicagoOctober 20-22, 2019Keynote Speaker Chad FothergillPiano Recital Elizabeth GrimpoChoral Concert Aestas Consort | Maurice Boyer, conductorHymn-Sing Daniel Schwandt

Major funding provided by the Vi Messerli Memorial Lectures in Church Music Endowment

The Vi Messerli Memorial Lectures in Church MusicConcordia University Chicago7400 Augusta StreetRiver Forest, IL 60305-1499

ELIZABETH GRIMPO

AESTAS CONSORT

DANIEL SCHWANDT

Concerts

The Vi Messerli Memorial

Lectures in Church Music

SUNDAY | 4:00 P.M.

Piano RecitalDedication of newly renovated choir room

Music by Bach, Poulenc, Scarlatti and more Elizabeth Grimpo,

Concordia University Nebraska

Kretzmann HallConcordia University Chicago

SUNDAY | 8:00 P.M.

Choral ConcertLight of Life: Songs of Prayer and Jubilation

Aestas ConsortMaurice Boyer, conductor

Grace Lutheran ChurchRiver Forest

MONDAY | 8:00 P.M.

Hymn-SingCalled into Being

Led by Daniel Schwandt, Ph.D. candidate, University of Notre Dame

Chapel of Our LordConcordia University Chicago

Events

Choral Reading SessionsMONDAY AT 8:00 A.M. & 3:30 P.M.

TUESDAY AT 8:30 A.M.

MONDAY | 9:15 A.M.

“A High and Holy Calling”: The Lutheran Cantor in the 21st Century

Chad Fothergill Ph.D. candidate, Temple University

MONDAY | 6:00 P.M.Why Manz Still Matters

Paul Westermeyer

Also featuring the premiere of a new setting of Evening Prayer by Carl Schalk

keynote address

banquet address

evening prayer

workshop sessions

CONFERENCE DATES Sunday, October 20 ~ Tuesday, October 22, 2019REGISTER TODAY! visit CUChicago.edu/lectures

PRESENTER WORKSHOP TITLE SESSION(S)

Chad Fothergill Keynote Address Q & A II

Timothy Fredstrom Let the Text Speak I & IV

Timothy Fredstrom Strategic Rehearsal Planning III & V

Elizabeth Grimpo Piano Reading Session IV

Jonathan Kohrs A Paul Gerhardt Songbook: New Tunes for Old Texts III

Benjamin Kolodziej Translations, Traditions, and Transformations: Catherine Winkworth and the Lutheran Chorale in English*

II & V

Christina Roberts Forming Liturgical Christians through Children’s Choir III

Christina Roberts Psalm Settings for Children’s Choir I & II

Daniel Schwandt Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Doing Congregational Song I & IV

Elisabeth Urtel Singing the Church Year: The Life and Hymnody of Anna B.D. Hoppe* I & III

Steven Wente Organ Reading Session II & V

*in cooperation with the Center for Church Music

EventsSESSION I Monday at 1:00 p.m.

SESSION II Monday at 2:15 p.m.

SESSION III Tuesday at 9:45 a.m.

SESSION IV Tuesday at 1:15 p.m.

SESSION V Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.

CODALOCATION Registration takes place at the Ferguson Gallery in Kretzmann Hall, located on the northeast side of campus. The University is one block west of Harlem Avenue (IL 43) between Division and Augusta Streets in River Forest, 10 miles west of downtown Chicago. Participants may park in the parking garage on campus.

LODGING Registrants should make their own housing arrangements at a local hotel at least two weeks before the conference.Recommended hotels are listed on the conference website at CUChicago.edu/lectures

CEU CREDIT One Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is available to conference participants at an addi-tional cost of $10. Simply fill out the request form which will be included in your registration packet.

CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE A limited number of full-conference scholarships are available to first-time participants, with preference given to those new to the field of church music. To be eligible, registration forms must be received by the early-registration deadline. Scholarships will be awarded in the order the forms are received. Any lunches and additional

banquet tickets are not included in the scholarship. Please mark the appropriate box(es) on the registration form and submit payment for any of the items not included.

REFUNDS Refunds for those who find they cannot attend after registering (minus a $25 processing fee) will be made if notification is given on or before October 19, 2019.

CONTACT For additional information contact Carol Smid at Carol.Smid@CUChicago.edu or 708-209-3024.

biosKEYNOTE SPEAKER

CHAD FOTHERGILL received degrees in organ perfor-mance from Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Iowa. The recip-ient of a University Fellow-ship from Temple University, Fothergill’s Ph.D. dissertation research examines Lutheran

music of the 16th through 18th centuries, partic-ularly the musical, social, cultural and economic threads that intersect in the office of Kantor. He has contributed—both as writer and com-poser—to several Lutheran worship resources including Sundays and Seasons, Reformation 500 Sourcebook, Augsburg Chorale Book and Music Sourcebook for Life Passages. He has served on the faculties of Gustavus Adolphus College, the University of Delaware (2013-15), and the Luther-an Summer Music Academy and Festival.

PIANO RECITALISTELIZABETH GRIMPO is associate professor of music at Concordia Univer-sity-Nebraska where she teaches aural skills, music appreciation and private piano lessons. In addition to performing solo recitals, she regularly collaborates with

her colleagues at CUNE. She prepared the ac-companiment edition for CPH’s My First Hymnal. She has also contributed to the Hymns of the Season series published by St. Paul’s Conserva-tory in Council Bluffs, IA, which features peda-gogically graded hymn settings. Grimpo earned her M.M. and DMA degrees in piano performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

HYMN-SING LEADERDANIEL SCHWANDT is a doctoral student in organ performance at the Universi-ty of Notre Dame and music associate at Gloria Dei Lu-theran Church, South Bend, IN. Formerly he served as cantor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Chicago, cantor to

the seminary community at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and cantor of Augustana Lutheran Church of Hyde Park. He holds degrees in organ and church music from St. Olaf College and the University of Notre Dame. Schwandt’s compositions are published through Augsburg Fortress and MorningStar Music. He is active as a recitalist, hymn festival leader and work-shop presenter.

BANQUET SPEAKERFrom 1990 until his retirement in 2013, PAUL WESTERMEYER served as professor of church music at Luther Seminary in Minneapolis where he taught church music, directed the Master of Sacred Music program

and served as cantor. Among his many books are The Church Musician; Te Deum: The Church and Music; Let the People Sing: Hymn Tunes in Perspective; Church Musicians: Reflections on Their Call, Craft, History, and Challenges; and A High and Holy Calling: Essays of Encouragement for the Church and Its Musicians. He holds degrees from Elmhurst College, the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary, and the University of Chicago.

PRESENTERS

TIMOTHY FREDSTROM is a professor of choral music and music education at Illinois State University. He directs the Men’s Glee and teaches courses in choral pedagogy, conducting and music literature. He is the conductor of Cantus Novus

Chorale in Bloomington-Normal, IL, the assistant conductor of Lumière Chamber Choir in Peoria, IL, and the assistant conductor of the Peoria Bach Festival at Trinity Lutheran Church in Peoria, where he also serves as organist.

JONATHAN KOHRS is associate professor of music and music department chair at Concordia University Chicago, where he conducts the chapel’s traditional (Schola Cantorum) and contemporary (Resonanz Ensemble) liturgical

ensembles and teaches church music. Having received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from CUC, he earned an MFA in music composition from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His setting of the Divine Service received an honorable mention in the 2015 Raabe Prize for Excellence in Sacred Composition. His piano, organ and choral music is published by Concordia Publishing House, Augsburg Fortress Publishers and World Library Publications.

BENJAMIN KOLODZIEJ serves as chapel organist at Southern Methodist University, where he has lectured in sacred music at Perkins School of Theology. He holds an undergraduate degree in organ performance from SMU, and MSM and MTS

degrees from Perkins School of Theology. He has published articles in The Chorister, Concordia Theological Quarterly, The Hymn and The American Organist, among others. His chapter entitled “Organ Music in the Liturgy in the Twentieth Century” was published by Routledge in Twentieth-Century Organ Music, a Festschrift honoring Robert T. Anderson. His organ music is published by Concordia Publishing House, Augsburg Fortress and GIA.

CHRISTINA ROBERTS is Kantor of Our Savior Lutheran Church and School in Grand Rapids, MI. Through her roles as organist, vocal and instrumental director, composer, and music educator, Roberts has worked closely with

her pastors and principals to create a culture of song for their congregation. Her children’s choirs have participated in Good Shepherd Institute, Lutheran Education Association National Convocation, Worship Anew, various hymn festivals and seminary worship services. Roberts holds a Master of Church Music degree from Concordia University Chicago and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas.

ELISABETH URTEL is choir director and organist at Mount Olive Lutheran Church (ELS), Mankato, MN. After graduating from Bethany Lutheran College with a degree in music, she received her Master of Arts in Lutheran Theological Studies

from Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary. Urtel’s recent publication “Anna B. Hoppe: Her Life and Hymnody” draws upon her thesis for this program. She received her Master of Church Music from Concordia University Wisconsin. She is working toward a Ph.D. at Concordia Seminary where she plans to study the musical and liturgi-cal life of the Lutheran convent in Quedlinburg.

STEVEN WENTE is professor of music and organist to the Chapel of Our Lord at Concordia-Chicago, where he teaches organ and related courses, having served as music department chair for over 20 years. After earning his bachelor’s and master’s

degrees from Concordia-Chicago, he received the Doctor of Music degree in organ perfor-mance from Northwestern University. Wente has played for conferences of the ALCM and AGO, and has composed preludes for the Concordia Hymn Prelude Series, Hymnal Supplement 98, and the LSB Hymn Prelude Library.

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