Clinicians

Sue Mitchell-Wallace

Sue Mitchell-Wallace is an award winning Fellow of the American Guild of Organists and ACSAP. She has concertized from California to Holland, New York to Texas, including the National Cathedral and US Naval Academy Chapel and two recitals at Westminster Abbey. Her compositions and recordings are in catalogues of seven publishers. She has arranged and recorded five collections of music for trumpet and organ, in collaboration with John Head. Her DVD on the “Art and Craft of Playing Hymns” is a standard in the church music field. She served six years as National Councilor for Education for the American Guild of Organists; four years on Professional Certification Committee for AGO. She studied piano with Gerald Snyder, Thomas Brockman and Mieczyslaw Horszowski; organ with Catharine Crozier and Harold Gleason; conducting with Robert Hufstader and composition and arranging with James Progris [Cleveland Institute of Music, Rollins College and University of Miami]. She was faculty member and university organist for Florida Atlantic University, Broward Community College and the Birmingham Southern Conservatory of Music. She has been organist-clinician at Montreat, Lake Junaluska, Hymn Society of Great Britain, Hymn Society of America and AGO. She chaired the Atlanta Presbytery’s Worship Committee. She is currently secretary of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians and board member of the Leadership Program for Musicians. From 1989-2006, she was director of music and organist at St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. Currently, she is a free-lance organist, commissioned composer, recitalist and clinician.

David Cherwien

David Cherwien, music director of the National Lutheran Choir, is a nationally known conductor, composer and organist. Recognized for his contributions to the field of church music and liturgy, he is in demand as a clinician and hymn festival leader across the country. David serves as editor of the National Lutheran Choir Series of choral music published by Morningstar Music Publishers. He is a founding member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians and has served in its leadership in a variety of capacities, including as National President from 1993 to 1997. He is a member of the American Choral Director’s Association, American Guild of Organists, Chorus America and Choristers Guild. In addition, David serves as Cantor at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, a parish known for its passion for creative high quality liturgy and music. David holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ performance and the Master of Arts degree in Theory and Composition from the University of Minnesota. In the Fall of 2000, he was honored as a “Distinguished Alumnus” by Augsburg College, Minneapolis, where he studied choral music education and organ performance as an undergraduate. David also spent two years at the Berlin Church Music School studying conducting, composition and organ. David Cherwien is the 2007 winner of the Raabe Prize for Excellence in Sacred Composition for his piece "The Souls of the Righteous."

Steven Cooksey

• Chair of organ & church music department of Shenandoah University
• 35 years of experience teaching college music
• 50 years of experience in church music
• Organist and choirmaster at St. James Episcopal Church, Leesburg, Va.
• Founder and director of CMI