South Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States
My entire professional, academic and personal life as a musician, teacher, tutor, and publisher has been focused toward the restoration of not just traditional sacred music (namely, Gregorian chant. Renaissance polyphony and Baroque/Romantic hymnody), but the artistic, liturgical, architectural, theological and philosophical culture within which this musical patrimony developed.
-Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament (Westfield, MA) - played/sang Gregorian chant/traditional English hymnody for homeschool Mass with bishop -St. Patrick Catholic Church (Waterbury, CT) - played/sang Gregorian chant for Traditional Latin Nuptial Low Mass with Hymns -St. Mary Catholic Church (Westfield, MA) - played/sang Gregorian chant/prelude/postlude for Traditional Latin Nuptial Mass -St. Mary Catholic Church (New Haven, CT) - played/sang Gregorian chant/Anglican chant/traditional English hymnody for newly-ordained priest’s Mass -Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Granby, MA) - played/sang Gregorian chant for Traditional Latin First Friday High Mass -St. Jerome Catholic Church (New Britain, CT) - played/sang Gregorian chant & made booklets for Latin Novus Ordo Masses, played/sang funeral -St. Bridget Catholic Church (Cheshire, CT) - played/sang Gregorian chant/English plainsong/traditional English hymnody for 4 & 5 PM Saturday Vigil Masses -St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church (Waterbury, CT) - played/sang Gregorian chant/English plainsong/traditional English hymnody for funeral -St. John the Evangelist (Agawam, CT) - sang/played organ repertoire, Gregorian chant/traditional English hymnody/English plainsong for Sunday Masses; made wedding booklet -St. Augustine Catholic Church (North Branford, CT) - played/sang Gregorian chant/English plainsong for Feast of Sacred Heart -Holy Spirit Chapel - St. Michael Catholic Cathedral (Springfield, MA) - played/sang English plainsong/traditional hymnody for televised Sunday Mass for the homebound -St. Martha Catholic Church (Enfield, CT) - played/sang Gregorian chant/SATB hymnody for Spanish Mass, played/sang Gregorian chant for pre-55 Traditional Latin Holy Thursday/Holy Saturday Masses -St. Maurice Catholic Church (New Britain, CT) - played/sang patronal feast Mass, Christmas Eve & mayor’s wedding Mass (made liturgical booklet, met/planned music with her) -Yale Divinity School (New Haven, CT) - played memorial service
-Teach many young children ages 4 to 12. -Have also conducted paid research on pedagogies, ideas and methods of piano "games" and "play", instead of "lessons" and "teaching."
-Pre-Ordinariate Fellowship of CT - St. James Catholic Church (Manchester, CT) - ran 2 choir rehearsals, sang/directed choir for Ordinariate Solemn High Nuptial Wedding (traditional English chant/hymnody, 18th/19th-century motets) -St. Gregory Latin Mass Society - St. Stanislaus Catholic Church (New Haven, CT) - sang Renaissance polyphonic motets/Mass Ordinaries for Palm Sunday/Good Friday/Easter Sunday Traditional Latin Masses -St. Martha Catholic Church (Enfield, CT) - sang Gregorian chant for traditional blessing of Epiphany water, Sunday morning High TLM, Requiem Solemn High & High Masses, & pre-1955 Traditional Latin Good Fri service -St. Mary Catholic Church (New Haven, CT) - sang Gregorian chant/Renaissance polyphony/traditional English hymnody for weekly Sunday Masses (& Christmas Eve Mass) -St. Michael Catholic Church (New Haven, CT) - sang traditional Catholic 16th-21st century music for wedding Mass with Cathedral pro choir -St. Roch Catholic Church (Greenwich, CT) - sang English plainchant psalms & Renaissance polyphonic responsories for Tenebrae service -St. Peter Catholic Church (Kingston, NY) - sang Gregorian chant/Renaissance polyphonic Mass Ordinary for Feast of Sts. Peter/Paul -St. Cecilia Consort - Our Lady of the Assumption (Fairfield, CT) - sang Gregorian chant/Renaissance polyphony/English plainsong/Anglican chant for Pentecost Compline & Vespers for the Feasts of St. Joseph the Worker/St. Mary Magdalene/Candlemas -Our Lady of the Way Catholic Chapel - Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, NY) - sang Gregorian chant propers/Mass Ordinary for weekly Sunday Masses -St. Jerome Catholic Church (New Britain, CT) - sang Gregorian chant/Renaissance polyphony/English plainsong/Anglican chant/traditional English hymnody for Sunday 11 AM Masses, Stations of the Cross, Immaculate Conception (plus vigil), Mary Mother of God (plus vigil), Ash Wednesday, Christmas Eve & Palm Sunday vigil
Pick all music (traditional English/Latin hymnody/chant), play organ while cantor-ing Sunday 8 AM and 10:30 AM Masses and funerals. Make worship aids for weekend Masses. Make worship aids for weekend Masses and run weekly Sunday 9 AM choir rehearsal.
Sang/played Gregorian chant for weekly Sunday High Masses. Recruited/rehearsed schola members. Made/printed 4-hymn booklets for singers/congregation.
Picked all music (traditional English/Latin hymnody/chant), played organ while singing harmonies for weekly Saturday 4 PM. some Sunday 9 AM, and Holy Week (Maundy Thurs/Good Fri/Holy Sat), funeral, Confirmation & wedding Masses. Prepared organists and cantors to cover other Masses.
Teach biblical history, Catholic dogma/doctrine/discipline/social teaching, church history & patristic/scholastic philosophy/theology to 4 classes (2 freshmen, 2 juniors). Taught seniors Gregorian chant for school Mass. Subbed for other religion teacher & AP Gov.