Workshops, Festival, Retreats, Church Services, Clinics

Contact me for:

1. Single rehearsal to develop choral/vocal/music skills
2. Workshop: 1, 2, or 3 days in length for...
   • General choral/vocal/music skill development
   • A church service sung at the conclusion
   • A Festival or Special Performance
3. Choral Workshop of a longer nature such as the week-long Road Scholar Choral Weeks or the RSCM America Summer Camps

We’ll be shooting for “AWESOME!”.....not “nice”!

EXPERIENCE

I started in Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, UK, at age 8, and have been continuously involved with church services, workshops, festivals, retreats, concerts, choral clinics, singing and directing, for over 62 years. Some of the highlights:

• The 40th Anniversary of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) Festival in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, 1967 - HM Elizabeth II was there!
• Founded, established, directed the RSCM America National Choir - 2013-2017; first adventure - Westminster Abbey
• Directing RSCM America Summer Courses
• The 2016 University of Florida Sacred Music Workshop, Gainesville, FL, Guest Clinician
• Road Scholar (formerly “Elderhostel”) Choral Weeks - I have directed over 30 in Orlando, Florida, Abingdon, Virginia, and St. Simon’s Island. Georgia

Check the NEWS*EVENTS*ACTIVITIES page for the future plans attempting to revive these National Choral Workshops.

CHORAL GROUPS, SOLOISTS, CONTEMPORARY BAND, CONGREGATIONS

Q: Accompanying: are you the “leader” or the “servant”?
A: THE SERVANT!

It is my job to make the choir, solo voice, small group, instrumentalist sound their best! Playing in a group? To blend - not take over! Guitar? Self-taught from experience at Grace Episcopal playing in a band - invaluable skill working with children. The best way to lead a group of very young children - perfect for Vacation Bible School.

Accompanying Experience:

• By far the greatest - accompanying choirs and congregations in church services
• Vocal soloists, duets, or more - both in Liturgical Services and for competitions such as those conducted by the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)
• Instrumentalists
• Contemporary Christian Music Band - piano and guitar
• Contemporary Christian Music Worship Service - piano and guitar

CHURCH DIRECTORS - MUSIC AND PASTORAL

Does your congregation sing with a hearty and strong voice? Participate in Liturgical Worship with conviction?

Primarily directed to denominations with Liturgical Worship and singing traditional hymns in addition to more contemporary items, I am offering a Friday evening and Saturday time of meeting together, closing with the regularly scheduled Sunday Morning Main Worship Service.

We will cover:

• The basics of singing with greater strength
• The “more you give, the more you receive” principal
• Liturgical Worship today builds on the blood of Martyrs - a little history

Music ministry:

• how/what/why
• hiring musicians guidance
• YOUNG CHILDREN - SING! / FEED THE HOMELESS

During the 46 years at St. Michael’s, the Music Ministry touched the lives of literally thousands of people.

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
- Leopold Stokowski

So, let’s paint...

• Organization and time management skills that simplify life
• Choirs for all ages, babies thru retired - teach them, train them
• Services sung in country churches to mighty Cathedrals
• Music that shines meaning on God’s Words heard in worship
• Concerts where singers sing, instrumentalists play, the organ speaks - Oilvier Latry from Notre Dame to a local Beatles Cover Band, Handel’s “Messiah” through Stravinsky’s “Mass”
• Programs for college voices to sing the Voice of God
• Singing songs that feed the soul of a community, not the adoration of those singing
• Instruments that breathe the same air with which singers sing - the mighty pipe organ!

Guidance on which “brush” to use, the “palette” of colors for any of the above? Call me.

Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and also mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song.
- Richard Llewellyn (1906-1983, English novelist)

FEEDING HOMELESS CHILDREN

Initially a St. Michael’s Choir Outreach Ministry, then the whole church. In 2025/2026 the “FEED MY LAMBS” program regularly delivered 400-600 lbs of food to two local school each month. Call me for information on how you can implement this same program.

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