This episode of Ministry Monday is brought to you by the Inaugural CLEF Summer Program , taking place July 17 – 22 at the Jesuit Spiritual Center in Milford, Ohio.
The program will provide sessions for ensemble instrumentalists, vocalists, and a retreat track. Additional time for daily prayer and private coaching with our team of experienced ensemble musicians is available. For more information, visit CLEF.life.
SHOW NOTES
Please scroll down to “The Paschal Proclamation” to find NPM’s recording of the Exsultet (Long Form).
Excerpts from the English translation and chants of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
Bio: Nicholas Will
Nicholas Will, Founder and President, is the Director of Liturgical Music, Organist & Lecturer at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where he plans all aspects of liturgical music, serves as primary conductor and organist, and teaches a comprehensive sacred music curriculum to the seminary's 160 students. He also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor of Music at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he directs the Schola Cantorum Franciscana and teaches Gregorian chant and private organ. From 2018 to 2020, he served as Director of Liturgical Music at the Pontifical North American College, Vatican City State, where he oversaw all aspects of liturgical music, served as principal organist, directed the Seminary Choir, and provided sacred music instruction to seminarians from throughout the United States and Australia. From 2013 to 2018, he was an Assistant Professor of Music at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he also served as Coordinator of the Sacred Music Program from 2016 to 2018. Other previous positions include directorships at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, Carnegie, PA, and the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Altoona, PA. A graduate of Duquesne University and the Peabody Conservatory of Music with additional study in improvisation with Dom Theo Flury, O.S.B. at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Rome, Nicholas is a past winner of the André Marchal Award for Excellence in Organ Performance (Duquesne), the Dorothy DeCourt Prize in Organ (Peabody), the Young Organists’ Audition sponsored by the Pittsburgh Concert Society, and the Duquesne University Concerto Competition. He has performed as an organist, accompanist, and conductor throughout the eastern United States and in Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Croatia, including national gatherings of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (2012 and 2018) and the Church Music Association of America (2018). An Associate and active member of the American Guild of Organists, Nicholas also serves on the National Association of Pastoral Musicians’ national Steering Committee for Organists. His recordings as an organist and conductor have been released by Navona Records and Jade Music, and he is a published composer with CanticaNOVA Publications.
Professor Will's extensive experience as a university professor and director of parish, cathedral, and seminary music programs has given him a thorough knowledge of the Church's tradition of sacred music, an intimate familiarity with the issues facing parishes and church musicians today, and the desire and skills to improve the state of Catholic sacred music in the United States.
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