Among nine nationally-chosen top young organists in the United States, Weicheng Zhao competed in the National Organ Playing competition of the American Guild of Organists receiving the coveted Audience Prize and awarded 3rd place by the judges.
This short summer sabbatical has been fruitful in many ways: energizing, relaxing, challenging and restorative. Highlights have been hearing my colleague Weicheng Zhao play brilliantly at the June National A.G.O. finals in Houston and a two-week trip to Costa Rica in July.
Language immersion experiences are intense. Sometimes it feels like hitting >
It is with the widest range of mixed emotions that I share the news that Zanaida Robles has accepted the position of Director of Music at the Unitarian Universalist Community of Santa Monica.
Zanaida has been soprano section leader/soloist of Coventry Choir for 14 years. We have all been the beneficiaries of her >
I am excited that I will be taking a short sabbatical this summer. Postponed from 2015 because of the sudden vacancy in the associate organist-position and the resulting national search last May-June, I will be on sabbatical and vacation this summer, Monday, June 6 through Monday, September 5.
With Weicheng Zhao competing >
Weicheng Zhao, the brilliant Associate Organist-Choirmaster at All Saints Church, will compete this June in the final rounds of the prestigious 2016 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance of the American Guild of Organists (AGO).
Ed Bacon's final Sunday as rector of All Saints; my final service in the street! It was a labor of love and a joyful celebration of Ed's powerful ministry at All Saints. And as my fingers were burning on the hot keys of the piano, as I led communion music, I joyfully realized that I need not do this again. It's a "both/and" world.
