New and New-to-You Choral Music for Upcoming Seasons

Let CMI do the work for you by joining choral director Dr. Don Horisberger and Dr. Mann, CMI’s own Senior Resource Librarian, as they introduce their top picks of new repertoire and gems you may not know.  Music for fall, Advent, Christmas and Epiphany will be featured at this FREE event.

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Dr. Don Horisberger holds degrees from Capital University (B.M.) and Northwestern University (M.Mus. and D.Mus.) where he studied with Karel Paukert, Wolfgang Rübsam, and Margaret Hillis.  He also studied organ and church music as a Fulbright-Hayes scholar to Germany.

His career spans service to churches in multiple denominations, with 30 years at The Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest, IL where he led adult, children’s, and handbell choirs, taking the adult choir to five week-long residencies at major English Cathedrals.  In addition, he was Associate Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus as part of his 40 year association with the CSC as singer, bass section leader, German coach.

Now semi-retired in the Madison, WI area, Don continues as guest conductor, recital organist, clinician, and lecturer.  A member of the Association of Church Musicians in Madison, he recently conducted a choral festival and played on member benefit recitals, and he continues with occasional church work, especially at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Madison.

Dr. Robert Mann is the originator of Choral and Organ Libraries, Resource Library Director, and currently Senior Resource Librarian of the Church Music Institute.  He is Professor Emeritus of Music at Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in organ performance, history of music, and church music.  He holds Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate degrees in Organ Performance from Trinity University, Yale University, and University of North Texas.  He actively participated as recitalist in solo organ repertoire, organ duets, and music for two organs.  He has served churches for over forty years as organist or organist-choirmaster.  He has been workshop clinician for AGO chapters and church worship groups at the state, regional, and national levels.  Dr. Mann's scholarly publications include published modern editions of historical organ compositions by Eugene Thayer and Gustav Merkel, a definitive assessment of Mendelssohn's organ sonatas, and an annotated bibliography of organ duets.  He has written extensively and presented workshops on subjects of hymnology and music in worship for the Church Music Institute.  He is author of The Church Sings Its Faith, a history and chronological development of congregational song, published by GIA Publications, June, 2022.