Richard Webster

Richard Webster, FRSCM, is director of music and organist at Trinity Church, Boston, and music director of Chicago’s Bach Week Festival. In 2003, he was named organist and choirmaster emeritus of St. Luke’s Church in Evanston, where for thirty-one years he led a distinguished music program. The 1998 restoration of that church’s 1922 E. M. Skinner organ was completed under his leadership. As a composer, he is published by six houses, including Advent Press, which features his music exclusively. Active as a choral clinician, recitalist, and hymn-festival director, he has performed and recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His teachers include Peter Fyfe, Karel Paukert, and Wolfgang Rübsam. As a Fulbright Scholar, he was organ scholar at Chichester Cathedral. He loves running and has completed twenty-six marathons, dressed variously as J.S. Bach, Abraham Lincoln, Paul Revere, Robin, the Easter Bunny, the Cat in the Hat, and Prince William.

Vespers for the Feast of St. John the Baptist

Music of Claudio Monteverdi and His Contemporaries

The Green Mountain Project
Scott Metcalfe, musical director
Jolle Greenleaf, artistic director
(www.tenetnyc.com/concerts/claudio-monteverdi-and-his-contemporaries-st.-john-vespers)

Final Round

To promote the value of excellence in hymn playing, the 2014 Schoenstein Competition in Hymn Playing is established to coincide with the release by MorningStar Music Publishers of the book Hymn Playing: A Modern Colloquium, by Stuart Forster. Rules and Application Forms are available at www.hymnplayingcompetition.org

Come and Sing!

Come and sing in the congregation for the final round of the 2014 Schoenstein Competition in Hymn Playing at 4:00 p.m., Sunday, June 22. The competition finalists will each be playing three hymns, and your participation will support them in this vital role of the organ. Prizes of $3000 and $1000 will be awarded to the first and second place winners. For more information, please visit www.hymnplayingcompetition.org or contact Dr. Stuart Forster at stuartforster@aya.yale.edu.

Free admission

BLOW YE THE TRUMPET –  A Festival of Hymns for the Church Year

Richard Webster

Richard Webster brings his popular hymn arrangements for brass, timpani, organ and singers to St. Cecilia’s gloriously reverberant acoustic. Join Richard, along with organist Colin Lynch, the Choir and Brass Ensemble of Trinity Church, Copley Square, and a congregation of AGO conventioneers ready to sing, for a journey through the great hymns of the church year — from Advent, through Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost. Free admission.

Sponsored by Advent Press

www.advent-press.com

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James Busby

 James Busby is in demand throughout the Northeast as a vocal coach, collaborative pianist, and organist. The Boston Globe’s Richard Dyer praised his “skill and conviction,” stating “the real illuminations came from Busby’s insightful and elegant playing.” He is an alumnus of New England Conservatory and was recently awarded an honorary Doctor of Music by Nashotah House Theological Seminary for his “faithful commitment to excellence in sacred music.” He studied piano with Julius Chaloff and Kyriena Siloti and organ with George Faxon and Max Miller; he later studied with noted vocal coaches Felix Wolfes and Olga Averino and conductor John Moriarty. Recent performance venues include Tanglewood and Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall). He is frequently heard on WGBH, and has given recitals in England, France, Switzerland, and Germany. Since 1993, he has served as organist and choirmaster of S. Stephen’s Church in Providence, in the heart of the Brown University campus.

If your preferred concert choice for a given time slot is full, the registration system will provide a wait-list opportunity for the event and notify you automatically if a seat opens.

Registrants have the ability to continually manage their registration choices online—adding, changing, or removing events—even after their initial registration has been completed.

Given the small size of many Boston venues, and in order to fully accommodate expected convention registration during each time slot, more performances occur simultaneously than is typical of an AGO national convention. While this scenario offers an incredible ability to tailor one’s individual convention experience, it also means convention-goers will not hear all featured performances.

Additionally, many individual performances will undoubtedly reach capacity registration long before the total convention capacity is reached. Therefore, we encourage you to register early to ensure optimal availability of choice.

Workshop handouts will be available in sessions at the discretion of the workshop presenter.

Yes! All presenter-generated workshop handouts and materials will be accessible on our website. You will be able to download and print the materials for every workshop and paper presentation before, after, and during the convention.