Faculty Profiles

The Institute is shaped by its faculty. Members of the faculty hold joint appointments in the Institute and one of the professional schools, either Music or Divinity. All offer courses that enhance the curricula of their respective schools and reflect the mission of the Institute. As the following profiles indicate, the faculty bring a variety of gifts and expertise, representing the finest in their disciplines.

Teresa Berger Professor of Liturgical Studies. Professor Berger holds doctorates in both dogmatic theology and liturgical studies; her scholarly interests lie at the intersection of those fields with gender theory and with cultural studies. She has written extensively on liturgy and women’s lives and produced in 2007 a video documentary called Worship in Women’s Hands. Her recent publications include Women’s Ways of Worship: Gender Analysis and Liturgical History, Dissident Daughters: Feminist Liturgies in Global Context, and Fragments of Real Presence. She has also published monographs on the hymns of Charles Wesley and on the nineteenth-century Anglo-Catholic revival. In the spring of 2006 she co-edited an issue of the subaltern Web dossier Worlds & Knowledges Otherwise, titled The Poetics of the Sacred and the Politics of Scholarship. Most recently, Professor Berger produced (with MysticWaters Media) an interactive CD-ROM called Ocean Psalms, featuring meditations, prayers, songs, and blessings, all focused on the sea. Professor Berger is particularly interested in the cross-cultural dimensions of teaching. She has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Mainz, Münster, Berlin, and Uppsala. In 2003, Teresa Berger received the distinguished Herbert Haag Prize for Freedom in the Church. L.Th., St. John’s College, Nottingham; M.Th., Dipl.Theol., Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz; Dr.Theol., Ruprecht Karl-Universität, Heidelberg; Dr.Theol., Habilitation, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster

Jeffrey Brillhart Lecturer in Organ Improvisation. Mr. Brillhart has performed throughout the United States, Brazil, South Africa, and Europe as conductor and organist and is known for his musical versatility. He was awarded first place at the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Improvisation in 1994. In January 2008 Mr. Brillhart celebrated 25 years as director of music and fine arts at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, where he oversees music, education, and arts programs that involve more than 500 children, youth, and adults each week. During his tenure at Bryn Mawr Presbyterain he has overseen the installation of two major new pipe organs and commissioned numerous choral works. During a recent sabbatical from the church, Mr. Brillhart studied the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen with Olivier Latry and advanced organ improvisation with Tomas Nowak (both in Haarlem, Netherlands). Mr. Brillhart is also music director of Philadelphia’s acclaimed Singing City Choir, one of the first integrated community choirs in the United States. At Singing City he follows a distinguished line of conductors that includes Elaine Brown and Joseph Flummerfelt. Under his direction, his choral ensembles have performed with the Kronos Quartet, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Bobbie McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Helmuth Rilling, Rossen Milanov, and on tours to Cuba, Northern Ireland, and, in the 2009 season, Brazil. Mr. Brillhart maintains an active schedule as conductor, organist, and clinician, most recently at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Eastman School of Music, Westminster Choir College, Furman University, Walla Walla College, and Baylor University. M.M., Eastman School of Music

Marguerite L. Brooks Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Choral Conducting and Chair of the Program in Choral Conducting. Professor Brooks was named to the faculty in 1985 to chair Yale’s graduate program in choral conducting and to direct the Institute’s choral activities. She conducts the Yale Camerata and chamber choir and instructs all choral conducting students from both the Institute and the School of Music. She serves as director of music at the Church of the Redeemer (UCC) in New Haven. She has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Amherst College, and was director of choral music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. B.A., Mount Holyoke College; M.M., Temple University

Simon Carrington Professor in the Practice of Choral Conducting. Simon Carrington is director of the Yale Schola Cantorum and led the introduction of a new graduate voice degree for singers specializing in oratorio, early music, art song, and chamber ensemble. From 2001 until his Yale appointment in 2003, he was director of choral activities at the New England Conservatory, and from 1994 to 2001 he held a similar position at the University of Kansas. Prior to coming to the United States, he was a creative force for twenty-five years with the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble The King’s Singers, which he co-founded at Cambridge University. He maintains an active schedule as a freelance conductor and choral clinician, leading workshops and master classes round the world. He has conducted the Monteverdi Vespers in Barcelona, the Fauré Requiem in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Beethoven’s Meeresstille with the Texas All State Choir, Handel’s Messiah in Dublin, and the Rachmaninov Vespers in Victoria, B.C. with singers from all over Canada. He is a regular guest conductor at the Monteverdi Choir Festival in Budapest and the Tokyo Cantat in Japan, and leads annual workshops at the Chamber Choir Festival in Sarteano (Italy), and the Yale summer festival in Norfolk, Connecticut. He has taken Yale Schola Cantorum to perform at the two major choral conventions in the United States, and his recordings with the choir of Baroque masterpieces by Bach, Biber, and Bertali have received enthusiastic reviews. In 2008 he conducts Dvorak’s Te Deum and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevski at the International Choir Festival in Szczecin, Poland; the Choir and Rebel Baroque Orchestra at Trinity Church Wall Street; the Desert Chorale in Santa Fe and returns as president of the international jury at the choral festival in Leipzig, Germany. M.A., Cambridge University

Patrick Evans Associate Professor in the Practice of Sacred Music. Professor Evans is committed to the reclaiming and renewal of congregational song. As Director of Music for the daily ecumenical worship in Marquand Chapel, he works with the dean of chapel, student chapel ministers and musicians, and a wide range of students, faculty, and guests from varied denominational backgrounds and musical traditions. He recently joined a team of church musician/teachers convened by the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Global Missions, spending two weeks in Uganda teaching and learning from church musicians and pastors from that country, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Sudan. He has also been on the faculties of the Montreat and Westminster Conferences on Music and Worship, and was director of music for Seattle University’s 2007 Summer Institute for Liturgy and Worship. As a singer, he has been a fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, the Cleveland Art Song Festival, and the Pacific Music Festival, Sapporo, Japan. He has appeared regularly in opera, oratorio, and recital performances, and has sung All the Way Through Evening: Songs from the AIDS Quilt Songbook throughout the United States. During a recent sabbatical year, he served as artist-in-residence at Union Theological Seminary, and he currently serves in the same capacity at Broadway Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. Minister of music for ten years at Hanover Street Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware, Mr. Evans was previously associate professor of music at the University of Delaware, where he chaired the voice faculty and directed the opera program. B.M., B.M.E., University of Montevallo; M.M., D.M., Florida State University

Margot E. Fassler Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History. Professor Fassler’s special fields of study are medieval and American sacred music, and the liturgy of the Latin Middle Ages; subspecialties are liturgical drama of the Middle Ages and Mariology. Her book Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris has received awards from both the American Musicological Society and the Medieval Academy of America. She has edited a volume on the divine office (Oxford University Press) and has just completed a book on the cult of the Virgin Mary at Chartres (forthcoming from Yale University Press, fall 2009). She is the author of some forty articles on a broad range of topics and, as a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 2008–2009, is preparing a book on the twelfth-century theologian, exegete, and composer Hildegard of Bingen; she is also completing a textbook for W. W. Norton on medieval music. Fassler’s book Psalms in Community (edited with Harold Attridge) has been reprinted and is now sold by the Society of Biblical Literature alongside her film Joyful Noise: Psalms in Community. Under the auspices of a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., Professor Fassler continues to work with congregations and practitioners to make videos of sacred music in its liturgical contexts; she has just completed (with Jacqueline Richard) the film Performing the Passion: J.S. Bach and the Gospel according to John. Professor Fassler is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. B.A., State University of New York; M.A., Syracuse University; M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D., Cornell University

Siobhán Garrigan Associate Professor of Liturgical Studies and Assistant Dean for Marquand Chapel. Professor Garrigan is author of Beyond Ritual: Sacramental Theology after Habermas and a former Government of Ireland humanities scholar. Before coming to Yale, she taught Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity, and Change at the Open University in Belfast and courses in systematic theology at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. Prior to teaching, she worked extensively with homeless people. She has coordinated numerous worship services for major ecumenical and interfaith gatherings, and published several articles connecting worship, theology, and social justice. In addition to writing about the ecumenical daily worship program in Marquand Chapel which she directs, and the methods for vibrant, participative congregational worship she has developed with Patrick Evans, her current research includes one book on how worship practices relate to sectarianism and a project titled Queer Worship. Her long-standing commitments to ecumenism, feminism, and revitalizing Christian worship recently combined in a volume of LITURGY called New and Borrowed Rites which she co-edited with Janet Walton, and she is co-editing a volume with Todd Johnson on The Role of Seminary Chapels in Theological Education. B.A., Oxford University; S.T.M., Union Theological Seminary, New York; Ph.D., Milltown Institute, Dublin

Peter S. Hawkins Professor of Religion and Literature. Professor Hawkins’s work has long centered on Dante, most recently in Dante: A Brief History (2006); Dante’s Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination (winner of a 2001 AAR Book Prize); and The Poets’ Dante: Twentieth-Century Reflections, co-edited with Rachel Jacoff. His research in the history of biblical reception has produced three co-edited volumes, Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs; Medieval Readings of Romans; and From the Margin I: Women of the Hebrew Bible and Their Afterlives (2008). He has also published books on twentieth-century fiction (The Language of Grace, Listening for God, co-edited with Paula Carlson), utopia, and the language of ineffability. Professor Hawkins’s essays have dealt with such topics as memory and memorials, televangelism, scriptural interpretation, and preaching. From 2000 to 2008 he directed the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts at Boston University. He serves on the editorial board of the PMLA and on the selection committee for the Luce Fellows in Theology; he is regional representative for the Conference on Christianity and Literature. B.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison; M.Div., Union Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Yale University

Martin D. Jean Professor of Organ, Professor in the Practice of Sacred Music, and Director of the Institute of Sacred Music. Professor Jean has performed widely throughout the United States and Europe and is known for his broad repertorial interests. He was awarded first place at the international Grand Prix de Chartres in 1986, and in 1992 at the National Young Artists’ Competition in Organ Performance. A student of Robert Glasgow, in the fall of 1999 he spent a sabbatical with Harald Vogel in North Germany. He has performed on four continents and in nearly all fifty states. In 2001 he presented a cycle of the complete organ works of Bach at Yale, and his compact discs of The Seven Last Words of Christ by Charles Tournemire and the complete Six Symphonies of Louis Vierne, both recorded in Woolsey Hall, have been released by Loft Recordings. Recordings of the organ symphonies and Stations of the Cross of Marcel Dupré are forthcoming on the Delos label. A.Mus.D., University of Michigan

Jaime Lara Lecturer in Christian Art and Architecture. Jaime Lara has degrees and interest in art, architecture, liturgics, and anthropology. His studies have focused on early Christianity, the Spanish Middle Ages, medieval theater, and the colonial era of Latin America. His most recent publications include Christian Texts for Aztecs: Liturgy and Art in Colonial Mexico; City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain; “Christian Cannibalism and Human(e) Sacrifice: The Passion of Christ in the Conversion of the Aztecs” (Oxford University History Series Perspectives on the Passion); “A Vulcanological Joachim of Fiore and an Aerodynamic Francis of Assisi in Colonial Latin America,” in Studies in Church History, vol. 41; “Catholic Worship in Hispanic America,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Christian Worship; “The Language of the Arts,” in The Languages of Worship/Los Lenguages de la Liturgia; and “Feathered Psalms: Old World Forms in a New World Garb,” in Psalms in Community. He has another book in preparation on volcanoes, myths, and the Book of Revelation in the Andean countries. B.A., Cathedral College; M.Div., Immaculate Conception Seminary; M.A., City University of New York; S.T.M., Yale University; Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union and University of California, Berkeley

Gordon Lathrop Visiting Professor of Liturgical Studies and Acting Assistant Dean of Marquand Chapel (spring). Professor Lathrop visits from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, where he is Charles A. Schieren Professor of Liturgy, Emeritus. Previously he taught at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa; was campus pastor at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington; and served as parish pastor in Darlington, Wisconsin. He has been a Lutheran pastor for thirty-six years, twenty of which have been spent at the seminary in Philadelphia. His books include Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology (Fortress 1993), Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology (Fortress, 1999), Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology (Fortress, 2003), Central Things: Worship in Word and Sacrament (Augsburg Fortress, 2005), and The Pastor: A Spirituality (Fortress, 2006). Together with Timothy Wengert, he has also published Christian Assembly: Marks of the Church in a Pluralistic Age (Fortress 2004). He has lectured widely, been a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and, in the 1990s, was a participant in Faith and Order consultations on worship and Christian unity, and Lutheran World Federation consultations on worship and culture. He is an associate editor of the journal Worship and was the tenth president of the North American Academy of Liturgy. B.A., Occidental College; B.D., Luther Theological Seminary; Drs.Th., Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen (Netherlands)

Robin A. Leaver Visiting Professor of Music (fall). Professor Leaver is internationally recognized as a hymnologist, musicologist, liturgical expert, Bach scholar, and Reformation specialist, who has published numerous books and articles in the cross-disciplinary areas of liturgy, church music, theology, and hymnology, A primary area of Professor Leaver’s research is Lutheran church music, in which he has made significant contributions to Luther, Schütz, Bach, Brahms, and other studies. A festschrift was recently published in his honor, Theology and Music: Essays in Honor of Robin A Leaver, edited by Daniel Zager (Scarecrow Press); his major study, Luther’s Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications (Eerdmans), was published in 2007; and his latest book, A Communion Sunday in Scotland ca. 1780: Liturgies and Sermons, is forthcoming. Professor Leaver has taught at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, Drew University, Madison, and is currently visiting professor at the Juilliard School, New York City, and at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. His honors include Winston Churchill Fellow, Honorary Member of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, and Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music. He is a past president of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Hymnologie and of the American Bach Society. D.Theol., Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands

Judith Malafronte Lecturer in Voice. The mezzo-soprano Judith Malafronte has an active career as a soloist in opera, oratorio, and recital. She has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the St. Louis Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn Society, and Mark Morris Dance Group. She has sung at the Tanglewood Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, and the Göttingen Handel Festival. Winner of several top awards in Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the United States, including the Grand Prize at the International Vocal Competition in Hertogenbosch, Holland, Ms. Malafronte holds degrees with honors from Vassar College and Stanford University. She studied at the Eastman School of Music, in Paris and Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger, and with Giulietta Simionato in Milan as a Fulbright scholar. She has recorded for major labels in a broad range of repertoire, from medieval chant to contemporary music, and her writings have appeared in Opera News, Stagebill, Islands, Early Music America Magazine, Schwann Inside, and Opus. B.A., Vassar College; M.A., Stanford University

Mark Miller Lecturer in the Practice of Sacred Music. Mr. Miller has served on the faculty at the Drew Theological School in Madison, New Jersey, since 1994. He is director of the Gospel and Youth Choirs at the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, and from 1999 to 2001 was music associate and assistant organist of the Riverside Church. Mr. Miller is known in churches throughout the country as a worship leader, teacher, composer, and performer of sacred music and has performed concerts from California to Connecticut. He has a passion for composing music that reflects elements of classical, gospel, jazz, and folk and has over twenty works published with Abingdon Press and Hope Publishing. As an undergraduate he was the recipient of the Yale Bach Society Prize and in 1989 was first prizewinner of the National Association of Negro Musicians National Organ Competition. B.A., Yale University; M.M., Juilliard

Thomas Murray Professor in the Practice of Organ and Chair of the Program in Organ. Professor Murray has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1981 and was appointed University organist in 1990. Successor to Charles Krigbaum and Robert Baker as the senior professor of organ, he teaches the Organ Literature Seminar and gives instruction to graduate organ majors. His performing career has taken him to all parts of Europe and to Japan, Australia, and Argentina. He has appeared as a soloist with the Pittsburgh, Houston, Milwaukee, and New Haven symphony orchestras, the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra during its tour of Finland in 1996. The American Guild of Organists named him International Performer of the Year in 1986; as a recipient of this distinction he joined such luminaries as Marie-Claire Alain, Jean Guillou, and Dame Gillian Weir. The Royal College of Organists in England awarded him an FRCO diploma honoris causa in 2003. During his years at Yale he has at times been active as a choral conductor, and prior to joining the faculty he was organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Episcopal) in Boston. In 2006 he was appointed artist-in-residence at Christ Church Episcopal in New Haven. B.A., Occidental College

Sally M. Promey Professor of Religion and Visual Culture, Professor of American Studies, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Sacred Music. Professor Promey is Principal Investigator of the Yale Initiative for the Study of Religion and Visual Culture, generously supported by a grant awarded in 2008 from the Henry Luce Foundation. Prior to arriving at Yale last year she was chair and professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, where she taught for fifteen years. Her scholarship explores relations between visual culture and religion in the United States from the colonial period through the present. Current book projects include volumes titled Religion in Plain View: The Public Aesthetics of American Belief and Written on the Heart: Protestant Visual Culture in the United States. Among earlier publications, Professor Promey’s Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent’s “Triumph of Religion” at the Boston Public Library (Princeton, 1999) received the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion and Spiritual Spectacles: Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism (Indiana, 1993) was awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art. Recent articles and book chapters include essays titled “Mirror Images: Framing the Self in Early New England Material Piety”; “Taste Cultures and the Visual Practice of Liberal Protestantism, 1940–1965”; “Situating Visual Culture”; and “The ‘Return’ of Religion in the Scholarship of American Art.” She is recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a residential fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, two Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowships (1993 and 2003) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers. In 2001 she received the Regent’s Faculty Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity from the University System of Maryland; and in 2002 the Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize, University of Maryland. She was co-director (with David Morgan, Valparaiso University) of a multi-year interdisciplinary collaborative project, “The Visual Culture of American Religions,” funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Lilly Endowment Inc. A book of the same title, co-edited by Promey and Morgan, appeared in 2001 from University of California Press. In 2004 she was senior historian in residence for the Terra Summer Residency Program in Giverny, France. She serves on the editorial boards of Material Religion, American Art, and Winterthur Portfolio, the Council of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, and the Advisory Committee of the Center for Historic American Visual Culture at the American Antiquarian Society. B.A., Hiram College; M.Div., Yale University; Ph.D., University of Chicago

Markus Rathey Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music History. Professor Rathey studied musicology, Protestant theology, and German philology in Bethel and Münster. He taught at the University of Mainz and the University of Leipzig and was a research fellow at the Bach-Archiv, Leipzig, before joining the Yale faculty in 2003. His research interests are music of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the relationship among music, religion, and politics during the Enlightenment. Recent publications include the books Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625–1673): Lebensweg und Schaffen (Eisenach, 1999), an edition of Johann Georg Ahle’s Music Theoretical Writings (Hildesheim, 2007), and Kommunikation und Diskurs: Die Bürgerkapitänsmusiken Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs (Hildesheim, 2008). He was guest editor of a volume of the German journal Musik und Kirche (2005) on church music in the United States. Professor Rathey is vice president of the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship and serves on the editorial board of the Bach Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Society. Ph.D., Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster

Bryan D. Spinks Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology, Chair of the Program in Liturgical Studies, and Fellow of Morse College. Professor Spinks works on Syriac traditions of liturgy, placing his scholarship in the context of patristics and the early sources of Christian liturgy. A priest in the Anglican tradition, he also works on a range of Reformation topics, with publications on Luther, Calvin, Richard Hooker, and William Perkins. His most recent publications are two volumes on rituals and theologies of baptism. He is currently completing a book on worship in the Age of Reason in England and Scotland. Before coming to Yale, he taught religious education at St. Peter’s Comprehensive School in Huntingdon, and liturgy at the University of Cambridge, where he was also chaplain of Churchill College. He served on the Church of England Liturgical Commission from 1986 to 2000 and was involved in the compilation of Common Worship 2000. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of Churchill College, Cambridge. B.A., St. Chad’s College, University of Durham; Dipl.Theol., B.D., D.D., University of Durham; Cert.Ed., University of Cambridge; M.Th., King’s College, University of London.

James Taylor Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Voice. The American lyric tenor James Taylor joined the Yale faculty in 2005 after serving as professor of voice at the Musikhochschule in Augsburg, Germany, since 2001. He is one of the most sought-after oratorio singers of his generation, appearing worldwide with such renowned conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Harding, Bernard Labadie, Harry Christophers, Osmo Vänskä, Phillipe Herreweghe, René Jacob, Ivan Fisher, Ton Koopman, Michel Corboz, and Franz Welser-Möst, and touring extensively with Helmuth Rilling. Important guest appearances have included concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, the Toronto Symphony, Tafelmusik, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Los Angeles Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and the San Francisco Symphony. His more than thirty-five professional recordings on CD include Dvorák’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Paulus and Elijah, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Händel’s Messiah, Bach’s B Minor Mass and Christmas Oratorio, and the songs of John Duke. A recording of Scottish and Welsh songs by Franz Josef Haydn, with Donald Sulzen and the Munich Piano Trio, has recently been released. Professor Taylor is one of the founders of Liedertafel, a male vocal quartet, which has appeared in major European music festivals and recorded for the Orfeo label. Important future engagements include performances of Mozart’s Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg, four performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Kurt Masur in March 2008, and a tour of the Britten Horn Serenade with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in April 2008. B.Mus., Texas Christian University; M.Dipl., Hochschule für Musik, Munich

Ted Taylor Lecturer in Voice. Mr. Taylor is equally at home on stage accompanying some of the world’s preeminent vocalists and in the pit conducting a varied repertoire of fifty operas and musicals. He enjoys a wide-ranging international career, having recently toured Japan with Kathleen Battle, and making his debut at the New York City Opera leading La Traviata. He has appeared in recital with Sylvia McNair, Ben Heppner, and Christine Schaefer, among many others. Formerly music director for the New York City Opera National Company and the Mobile (Alabama) Opera, he has appeared with many American opera companies, including those of Atlanta, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Wolf Trap, and Central City, and has served on the conducting staffs of the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Mr. Taylor served as assistant to Academy Award winner Tan Dun for the premiere of Marco Polo at the Munich Biennale and then prepared the work with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Tokyo Philharmonic orchestras. Now in his third year at Yale, as well as his ninth year on the faculty of the Opera Program at Mannes College for Music (The New School) in New York City, Mr. Taylor makes his home in Manhattan, where he maintains an active studio as coach and teacher. B.M., George Peabody College, Vanderbilt University; M.M., Indiana University

Thomas H. Troeger J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor of Christian Communication. Professor Troeger has written more than fifteen books in the fields of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship and is a frequent contributor to journals dedicated to these topics. His most recent books include Preaching and Worship, Preaching While the Church Is Under Reconstruction, and Above the Moon Earth Rises: Hymn Texts, Anthems and Poems for a New Creation. He is also a flutist and a poet whose work appears in the hymnals of most denominations and is frequently set as choral anthems. For three years Professor Troeger hosted the “Season of Worship” broadcast for Cokesbury, and he has led conferences and lectureships in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and in the Episcopal Church in 1999, he is dually aligned with both traditions. He is a former president of the Academy of Homiletics and currently serves on the board of Societas Homiletica (the international guild of scholars in homiletics). B.A., Yale University; B.D., Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T.D., Dickinson College; D.D., Virginia Theological Seminary

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