2024-25 Organ Scholar named in partnership with American Guild of Organists and St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville, TN – Episcopal News Service

St. George’s Episcopal Church and the American Guild of Organists (AGO) are happy to announce the appointment of Kateri Andress because the recipient of the 2024-25 Ronald G. Pogorzelski and Lester D. Yankee Organ Scholar Program.

Ms. Kateri Andress will start her work as Organ Scholar in August 2024 for 10 months at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville. Ms. Andress is at the moment incomes her Grasp of Music in Organ Efficiency and Literature on the Eastman College of Music within the studio of David Higgs. She is a graduate of Ave Maria College, the place she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a double focus in organ efficiency and sacred music. She at the moment serves because the Organist on the United Church of Canandaigua in Canandaigua, New York. Ms. Andress might be mentored by Director of Music Ministries, Dr. Woosug Kang, within the working particulars of main a nationally acknowledged music ministry, together with choral accompaniment, service enjoying, conducting, teaching grownup and youth choristers, and associated administrative expertise.

Persevering with the imaginative and prescient to mentor and nurture future leaders within the sacred music subject, this would be the fourth Organ Scholar at St. George’s, and the primary partnership with the American Guild of Organists. The AGO represents roughly 12,000 member organists and choral conductors, and so they have been actively rising their initiatives to foster and nurture younger organists to develop expertise within the sacred music subject. The AGO’s Nationwide Council just lately accepted an ongoing partnership with various church buildings for this very objective, naming the Ronald G. Pogorzelski and Lester D. Yankee Organ Scholar Program. St. George’s is proud to accomplice with the AGO following a profitable partnership with the Affiliation of Anglican Musicians in 2023-24, mentoring Gerre Hancock Intern, Mr. Abraham Wallace.

Kateri writes:

Firstly, I wish to categorical a heartfelt thanks to the AGO and to St. George’s for this wonderful alternative. As an organist whose purpose has at all times been to work in church music, this organ scholar place is certainly a dream come true. So most of the expertise a church musician wants can solely be developed by way of precise hands-on expertise. At St. George’s, I’ll have the prospect to place what I’ve realized within the classroom into follow below the mentorship and steerage of Dr. Woosug Kang and Gerry Senechal, who’ve each the training and the expertise to fine-tune my expertise and take them to the following stage. I’m very a lot trying ahead to a fruitful ten months of their suggestions, in addition to thrilled to take part in a church music program that places forth such lovely music in worship of God.

St. George’s Episcopal Church 4715 Harding Pike, Nashville TN 37205  |  615-385-2150  | stgeorgesnashville.org