Organist and composer Bruce Neswick will lead “Service Playing So No One Can Keep from Singing”. This highly reputed hymn accompanist and improviser will share his secrets!
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Registration closes Friday, February 27 @ noon.
Bruce Neswick enjoys immense popularity and is in tremendous demand throughout the country as organist, improviser, choral conductor and trainer, commissioned composer, and hymn festival leader. He has served on the faculties of and performed for numerous church music conferences, including the Association of Anglican Musicians, Westminster Choir College Summer Session, and the Sewanee Church Music Conference, among others. He was a featured recitalist at the national AGO conventions in Seattle and Washington D.C., and featured performer at the Dallas and Boston national conventions.
Mr. Neswick’s organ and choral compositions are published by Paraclete, Augsburg-Fortress, Selah, Vivace, Hope, Plymouth, and St. James Press. His skill at improvisation garnered him three competition first prizes: the 1989 San Anselmo Organ Festival; the 1990 American Guild of Organists' national convention in Boston; and the 1992 Rochette Concours at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland.
He is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University and Yale University’s School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. His teachers include Robert Baker, David Dahl, Gerre Hancock, Margaret Irwin-Brandon, and Lionel Rogg. He holds Fellowship degrees from the Royal School of Church Music and American Guild of Organists, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2016 by the University of the South, Sewanee, TN.
Mr. Neswick is the Interim Director of Music at St. James in-the-City, Los Angeles, following three years as the Artist-in-Residence at Church of St. James-by-the-Sea in La Jolla, and eight years as Canon for Music at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon.
Bruce Neswick is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.
