Welcome Walden Moore who will lead the Sixteenth Annual Festival of Music for Treble Voices.
Mr. Moore will be working with the Choristers and taking choir practices between 4 February and the 9th. On Sunday the 9th at 4:00 p.m. in the Church the combined Boy and Girl Choristers will offer a Festival Evensong as they conclude their Annual Concert of Music for Treble Voices.
Compositions will include those by Archer, Hogan, Ireland, and Barry Rose among others.
This annual offering will also include the promotion of Third Grade Novices and new choristers when these newest choristers receive their surplice and take their place among the junior chorister ranks.
The Evensong will be live streamed please share this link
The Evensong is free and open to everyone.
R. WALDEN MOORE was Director of Music of Trinity Church, New Haven, from 1984 until this past year, where he directed the Choir of Adults and Girls, the Choir of Men and Boys, and the Parish Choir of mixed adult voices in a regular schedule of parish services and appearances both inside and outside the parish. He serves as clinician, guest conductor and organist for choir festivals and church choir clinics throughout the year. Having previously served as Organist and Choirmaster of St. James’s Church in West Hartford, CT, his degrees in organ are from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music/School of Music, where he studied with Robert Baker and Gerre Hancock. He is past Chair of the Music Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, and has served on the Executive Board of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. He currently serves on the board that coordinates the Gerre Hancock Organ Scholar for the Association of Anglican Musicians. He has also served as organ design consultant for churches throughout Connecticut. In January of 2007, he was appointed Adjunct Lecturer in Organ at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music/School of Music, where, one semester each year, he co-teaches a course in Liturgical Keyboard Skills with colleague Mark Miller. In recent years, he has been Music Director for Royal School of Church Music in America Summer Courses in Charlotte, NC, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Newport, RI, Boston, MA, Houston and Dallas TX.
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