Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has announced that organist Bruce Neswick will join its faculty as associate professor of music (organ) in the fall of 2011, pending approval by the Trustees of Indiana University.
Neswick is presently director of music at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, having previously served as the canon for music at the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta.
Neswick's previous appointments include assistant organist-choirmaster for the Girl Choristers at Washington National Cathedral, director of music at St. Albans School for Boys and the National Cathedral School for Girls, and organist and choirmaster at Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, Ky.; Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Geneva, Switzerland; and St. Paul's Cathedral in Buffalo, N.Y.
Bruce Neswick is a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music, for which he has conducted several courses for boy and girl choristers, and also of of the American Guild of Organists, which he has served in many capacities, including on the national nominating committee and the national improvisation competition committee. He has served on the faculties of and performed for several church music conferences, including Master Schola, the Mississippi Conference, the Association of Anglican Musicians, Westminster Choir College Summer Session, the Montreat and Westminster Conferences of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, the Disciples of Christ Musicians, the Conference of Lutheran Church Musicians, the Sewanee Church Music Conference, Organ Alive! and the Evergreen Conference.
Neswick has been commissioned to compose for several performers and churches throughout the United States, and his organ and choral music is published by Paraclete, Augsburg-Fortress, Selah, Vivace, Hope, Plymouth and St. James' presses. He has won first prizes in improvisation, from the 1989 San Anselmo Organ Festival, the 1990 American Guild of Organists' national convention in Boston and the 1992 Rochette Concours at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland.
A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University and of the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, Neswick's teachers have included Robert Baker, David Dahl, Gerre Hancock, Margaret Irwin-Brandon and Lionel Rogg.
As a recitalist, Neswick has performed extensively throughout North America and has been a featured performer at national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists. In 1994, he played the opening convocation for its national convention in Dallas, Texas, and he was a featured artist at the guild's 2000 national convention in Seattle and its 2010 national convention in Washington, D.C. He is represented by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists.
Jeffrey Smith will continue as adjunct associate professor with the Jacobs Organ Department from his new home in London, England, working specifically with international initiatives.
