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Music
Christ Church Music & Staff
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Rehearsal Schedule |
| Voice For Life Fall Schedule 2008 |
| Schola Cantorum Fall Schedule 2008 |
| Sing 'n Ring Fall Schedule 2008 |
| Christ Church Choir Fall Schedule 2008 |
| Handbells Fall Schedule 2008 |
Additional Music
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| Hark! a Thrilling Voice is sounding-arr. Richard Webster, CCB Live, Advent Lessons and Carols |
| There's a wideness in God's mercy-Calvin Hampton, RSCM choirs |
| Trumpet Tune-David Johnson, Robert Richter-organ |
The Organ at Christ Church Bronxville |
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As a part of the current capital campaign, Christ Church is going through an extensive organ project. After a long and heralded history of the former organ, mechanical, electrical, environmental, and tonal issues, the church decided to remove the instrument, replace it with an interim digital organ, and build a new instrument. A contract with the Canadian organbuilding firm – Casavant Freres – was signed and we expect the new instrument to arrive in August 2009 and be completed by the end of that year. The new organ will contain: - a new console with 4 manuals and pedalboard - new façade pipes of 70% tin - new windchests, windlines, and reservoires - 9 ranks of pipes from the former instrument - 65 ranks of pipes - a total of 3,729 pipes Stoplist |
| Choir Camp, Fri., Sept. 26th-28th, 2008 |
| Paris Schola Cantorum Trip to Taizé 2007 |
| Choir Festival 2007 |
| Choir Musical: Just Like You and Me! |
| Boston Choir Trip, November 9th, 2007 | Advent Lessons and Carols, Sunday, December 3rd, 2006 |
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CHRISTOPHER WELLS (Music Director/Organist) is from Annapolis, Maryland where he began his organ studies with the late James Dale at the United States Naval Academy. He received his undergraduate degree in organ performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio on the Dean’s Talent Grant. He has studied the music of the Anglican tradition at the Washington National Cathedral with Nicholas White and while serving as Organ Scholar at St. Paul’s K-Street in Washington D.C. He received his master’s degree in organ from the University of Michigan as a student of Robert Glasgow. While in Michigan, Christopher was the Assistant Organist of Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills. In addition to his responsibilities of accompanying the Christ Church Choir, Boy and Girl Choir, and Chamber Choir, he was the soloist for a performance of Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ and Orchestra and was the organist for the premiere performances of Enid Sutherland’s Alpha and Emma Lou Diemer’s In Hope We Sing, Alleluia! Christopher is currently the Director of Music and Organist of Christ Church in Bronxville, New York where he directs a comprehensive music program of seven choirs for children and adults. He was the founding director of SHA!cappella, Bronxville’s highly acclaimed a cappella ensemble. He has appeared as an organ recitalist at St. Thomas Fifth Avenue (New York), St. Mary the Virgin (New York) The Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Detroit, MI), Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, MI), and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Flint, MI). |
| Listen to Chris: | Organ Concerto by Francis Poulenc
Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan Finale from Symphonie VI by Charles-Marie Widor St. Thomas Church, New York City |
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JESSICA FRENCH (Organ Scholar) is a recent graduate of Yale University, where she received a Master’s Degree in Organ Performance, studying with Martin Jean. While at Yale, Jessica was Assistant Organist at Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, where she accompanied and assisted in directing the Men and Girls Choir and the Trinity Singers. Before going to Yale, she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Organ Performance from Indiana University School of Music, studying with Dr. Larry Smith. While at Indiana, Jessica also sang in the Pro Arte Singers, an early music ensemble that performed medieval, renaissance and baroque choral repertoire, conducted by John Poole. Jessica began her musical training while attending the Madeleine Choir School at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, Utah, a full-time choral program for students in grades K-8. In 2005 she was a first prize winner in the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Guild of Organists Competition and went on to receive second place in the Regional American Guild of Organists Competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
| Listen to Jessica: | Choral-Improvisation sur le Victimae Pascali by Charles Tournemire Live, Woolsey Hall New Haven, Connecticut Passacaglia by Josef Rheinberger Live,Woolsey Hall New Haven, Connecticut |