Richard Webster is appointed lecturer in sacred music for the 2024–2025 academic year at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, Connecticut, where he will teach liturgical music skills.
He recently served as interim director of music at St. Paul’s Choir School and Parish, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, having retired in 2022 as director of music and organist at Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston. He also served as organist and choirmaster of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois, from 1974 to 2003 where he directed the Choir of Men and Boys and founded the Girls’ Choir and Schola. His other roles have included directing Chicago’s Bach Week Festival. Webster has led choir courses across the United States, South Africa, and New Zealand, and is an honorary fellow of the Royal School of Church Music.
His commissioned works are published by six different houses, including Advent Press, which publishes his music exclusively. His hymn arrangements for brass, percussion, organ, and congregation are performed across the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and on the BBC and CBC. Webster’s Doctor of Music degree is from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
For information: bachweek.org/new-page-5.
Other recent appointments:
Bálint Karosi to Yale Institute of Sacred Music
