PSALM's West Coast
Liturgical Singing Seminar 2009
Rhythm and Pulse in Orthodox Liturgy

Schedule

Additional Schedule information will be posted at www.orthodoxpsalm.org

Speaker Information

Mark Bailey is a co-founder and board member of PSALM. Until recently, he has served on the faculty of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary, conducting weekly and teaching composition, choral leadership techniques, and voice. He is widely published on topics pertaining to Orthodox liturgical music and leads frequent seminars on Orthodox music throughout the United States. Mr. Bailey also directs the Yale Russian Chorus, the New Haven Oratorio Choir, and the Westchester Concert Singers. His former positions include music director of the Manchester Symphonic Chorale, co-founder and director of the New England Benefit Orchestra, assistant conductor for the Heidelberg Castle Opera Festival, Heidelberg, Germany, and music director of the Festival Chamber Orchestra at Yale. Additionally, Mr. Bailey is a prolific composer of instrumental and choral/vocal music. Most of his compositions are written for Orthodox liturgy, and are sung in churches throughout North America and abroad. Mr. Bailey's music performance degrees were earned at the Eastman School of Music (1984) and the Yale School of Music/Yale Institute of Sacred Music (1989), where he also studied liturgy and Russian. Back to Home page

Alice Hughes is a co-founder of PSALM, Inc., where she currently serves as President. Ms. Hughes received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of the Pacific in Music Education with a choral emphasis. She is also a founder of the West Coast Liturgical Singing Seminar, which has been hosting an annual conference since 1994. She currently serves as co-director at St. Lawrence Orthodox Church in Felton, California, with Anne Schoepp. Ms. Hughes, with Anne Schoepp, produces and directs recordings for Seraphim Six Productions. They just released their fifth recording, "Life-Giving Wood" which features music from the Feast of the Elevation of the Cross. Ms. Hughes has been directing choral music and teaching voice since 1981. Currently, she is the Visual and Performing Arts Chair and Director of Choral Music at Pacific Collegiate School (grades 7–12) in Santa Cruz, California. She teaches at Bethany University in Scotts Valley, California. In addition she works as a vocal coach and musical director for several theater companies in the Santa Cruz area. Ms. Hughes is a strong advocate for music literacy and spends much of her time developing materials and methods for increasing sight-singing and listening/intonation skills for choirs. Back to Home page

Fr. Lawrence Margitich is the priest at the OCA parish of the Protection of the Virgin/St. Seraphim in Santa Rosa, California. He has Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, in guitar performance and orchestral conducting (1980) and a Master Divinity from St. Vladimir's Seminary (1984). He directed choirs at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Boston and in Santa Rosa. and has focused on setting special melodies and Znamenny chant in English. He currently serves as the head of the music department of the OCA Diocese of the West, and as a member of the Music Department of the OCA. Back to Home page

Anne Schoepp, also a co-founder and board member of PSALM, began singing in church choirs at age eight, studied piano, voice, and violin in her youth, and holds a B.A. in Music from Stanford University (1985) with an emphasis in choral conducting and composition. Ms. Schoepp taught piano and voice privately from 1985-1992, has been directing choral and instrumental music since 1984, and has organized the West Coast Liturgical Singing Seminar since its inception in 1994. She composes and arranges church music primarily for use at St. Lawrence Orthodox Church in Felton, California, where she is conductor together with Alice Hughes. She also directs the parish Youth Choir, teaches K–8 music at St. Lawrence Academy, where two of her five children attend, and directs the annual Christmas and Spring musicals. Recently Ms. Schoepp and Ms. Hughes have produced their fifth recording for Seraphim Six Productions, "Life-Giving Wood," featuring music for the Feast of the Elevation of the Cross. Back to Home page

General Information

Location of Event:

St. Seraphim Orthodox Church, 90 Mountain View Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95407.
Church phone number: (707) 584-9491

Meals provided:

Friday & Saturday - breakfast, lunch and dinner

Accommodations:

Rooms are available at the Good Nite Inn, which is about five minutes from the Church. You must make your own hotel reservations. Please use the group rate information listed below. A shuttle will be provided to the church.

Good Nite Inn
5040 Redwood Drive, Rohnert Park, CA.
(707) 584-8180
(707) 584-1725 (fax)
Confirmation: "#86998 for LSS2009"
Rates: single or double occupancy: $51.30 per night

Other local accommodations:

DoubleTree Hotel
Rohnert Park, CA
(707) 584-5466 or (800) 222-8733

Best Western Inn
Rohnert Park, CA
(707) 584-7435 (800) 780-7234

Transportation:

Arrange air travel into either San Francisco or Oakland International Airports. Airport shuttles will drop you at the Double Tree in Rohnert Park, which is approximately one mile from both the Church and the Good Nite Inn. If you will need transportation from the shuttle drop-off point to the Good Nite Inn or the Church please call the church at either (707) 585-9445 or (707) 584-9491.

Airport Express (Santa Rosa-Petaluma-Rohnert Park)
(707) 837-8700 or www.airportexpressinc.com
Service from San Francisco International Airport is every hour.
Service from Oakland International Airport is every two hours.

Registration:

Make checks payable to: PSALM, Inc.

Mail completed form and payment to:

PSALM-LSS
609 National St
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Full payment of $100 must be received with this registration form by January 16, 2009. No refunds will be made after that date.

Registration Form:

This form may be e-mailed back to Anne Schoepp: schoepp6@cruzio.com, but payment must be mailed to the above address. You may also download the pdf version of this form.

Name:

Address:

City, State, Zip:

Phone:

E-mail:

Parish:

Jurisdiction:

City:

________I will need transportation from the Airport Express drop-off point

• My estimated time of arrival at this drop-off point is_________ am / pm on January         , 2009

________I will need transportation from the Good Nite Inn to the Church on

• ________ Friday
• ________ Saturday
• ________ Sunday

________I will be driving and can help shuttle ________passengers from the Inn to the Church.

I will be staying for Divine Liturgy on Sunday

I am a ________ director ________ chanter ________ choir member

I sing ________ S ________ A ________ T ________ B

For more information contact Anne Schoepp at schoepp6@cruzio.com or 831-336-3019

Updates with more scheduling information will be posted on the PSALM website

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