Clinicians

Paul Westermeyer

Paul Westermeyer is professor of church music at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, where, in addition to teaching, he serves as Cantor for the Seminary community and administers the Master of Sacred Music Program, a degree program of Luther Seminary in cooperation with St. Olaf College. A musician and pastor whose doctorate is from the University of Chicago, he has been national chaplain of the American Guild of Organists, chair of Ecclesiastical Concerns for the Association of Lutheran Church
Musicians, and a board member of the Leadership Program for Musicians. He has been president of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, served two terms as editor of its journal, “The Hymn,” and in 2004 was made a fellow. His books include “The Church Musician,” “With Tongues of Fire,” “Let Justice Sing: Hymnody and Justice,” “Te Deum:The Church and Music,” “The Heart of the Matter: Church Music as Praise, Prayer, Proclamation, Story, and Gift,” “Let the People Sing: Hymn Tunes in Perspective,” and “Rise, O Church: Reflections on the Church, Its Music, and Empire.”

David W. Music

David W. Music is professor of church music and graduate program director in the School of Music at Baylor University, where he has taught since 2002. In addition to his teaching and administrative responsibilities, he serves as director of the annual Baylor Sacred Harp sing. Music is the author of “Christian Hymnody in Twentieth-Century Britain and America: An Annotated Bibliography” (2001),“Instruments in Church:A Collection of Source Documents” (1998), and “Hymnology: A Collection of
Source Readings” (1996). He has co-authored or edited three other books, as well as publishing editions of numerous works. Music is the author of over 200 articles and reviews in a wide variety of books and periodicals. His published compositions and arrangements include Christmas Sinfonias: Classic Duets for Organ and Piano (2002) and All Creatures of Our God and King: Hymn Enhancements for Organ and Piano (2000), as well as anthems, service music, hymn texts and tunes, music for recorders, and music for handbells. He served as editor of “The Hymn” (the journal of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, 1990-96) and as chair of the New Materials Subcommittee for “The Baptist Hymnal” (1991). He is a member of the Society for American Music; the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada; the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers; the Baptist History and Heritage Society, and the Baptist Church Music Conference, for which he served as president (2001-02) and educational division vice-president (1992-1994).

Steven Cooksey founder and director of CMI, is the chair of organ and church music department at Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University. He has 35 years of experience teaching college music and 50 years of experience in church music. Steven is the organist and choirmaster at St. James Episcopal Church in Leesburg,Va., and is founder and director of CMI.