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Richard Webster is a composer, church musician, choral
conductor and organist of wide renown. In 2010 he was appointed
Director of Music and Organist at Trinity Church, Copley Square,
Boston, having served the previous five years as its Associate
Director of Music. As a composer and arranger he completes several
commissioned works a year. His hymn arrangements for brass,
percussion, organ and congregation are heard across the
English-speaking world, including the Canadian Broadcasting
Company's annual Christmas and Easter broadcasts and BBC's "Songs of
Praise." A new recording soon to be released in Taiwan will feature
his hymn settings sung in Chinese. Mr. Webster's works are published by Augsburg Fortress, Church Music Society, Church Publishing, Selah and Advent Press. His articles on church music have appeared in The American Organist, The Diapason, Chicago Tribune, The Living Church, Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians and the Windy City Times. He was a contributing author to Leading the Church’s Song, published by Augsburg. At Trinity, Boston, he will lead the Trinity Choristers and Schola on their second tour to England in August 2013, with residencies at Lincoln and St. Paul's Ely Cathedrals. Since 1975 Mr. Webster has been Music Director of Chicago's Bach Week Festival, featuring some of the nation's most acclaimed musicians. Sought after as a choral clinician, he has led choir courses and workshops across the U.S. and South Africa. In 2011, he was awarded the honorary Fellowship of the Royal School of Church Music (FRSCM) in England. He has performed and recorded as organist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in works from the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony to Ives’ Fourth Symphony. He is the Organist and Choirmaster Emeritus of the Parish Church of Saint Luke in Evanston, Illinois, where, from 1974 to 2003 he directed the Choir of Men and Boys, the Girls Choir, Adult Schola and the St. Luke’s Singers in a program widely respected and emulated. The restoration of the celebrated 1922 Ernest M. Skinner organ at St. Luke’s was accomplished under his leadership. A native of Nashville, Mr. Webster studied organ with Peter Fyfe, Karel Paukert and Wolfgang Rübsam. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Great Britain, as Organ Scholar at Chichester Cathedral under the late John Birch. Richard loves running, and has completed 24 marathons, including the eleven Boston Marathons. | |||||||||
