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David Hurd

b. 1950 Person Name: David Hurd, b. 1950 Composer of "[Holy God, Holy and Mighty]" in The Hymnal 1982 David Hurd (b. Brooklyn, New York, 1950) was a boy soprano at St. Gabriel's Church in Hollis, Long Island, New York. Educated at Oberlin College and the University of North Carolina, he has been professor of church music and organist at General Theological Seminary in New York since 1976. In 1985 he also became director of music for All Saints Episcopal Church, New York. Hurd is an outstanding recitalist and improvisor and a composer of organ, choral, and instrumental music. In 1987 David Hurd was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, by the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. The following year he received honorary doctorates from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, and from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. His I Sing As I Arise Today, the collected hymn tunes of David Hurd, was published in 2010. Bert Polman and Emily Brink

Gregory Murray

1905 - 1992 Person Name: Anthony Gregory Murray (1905-1992) Composer of "TRISAGION AND REPROACHES" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Carl Haywood

b. 1949 Person Name: Carl Haywood, b. 1959 Composer of "[Holy God, holy and mighty]" in Evangelical Lutheran Worship

Alfred V. Fedak

b. 1953 Person Name: Alfred V. Fedak, b. 1953 Harmonizer of "AGIOS, O THEOS" in Sing! A New Creation Alfred Fedak (b. 1953), is a well-known organist, composer, and Minister of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York. He graduated from Hope College in 1975 with degrees in organ performance and music history. He obtained a Master’s degree in organ performance from Montclair State University, and has also studied at Westminster Choir College, Eastman School of Music, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, and at the first Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar at Clare College, Cambridge. As a composer, he has over 200 choral and organ works in print, and has three published anthologies of his work (Selah Publishing). In 1995, he was named a Visiting Fellow in Church Music at Episcopal Seminary of the Soutwest in Austin, Texas. He is also a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, and was awarded the AGO’s prestigious S. Lewis Elmer Award. Fedak is a Life Member of the Hymn Society, and writes for The American Organist, The Hymn, Reformed Worship, and Music and Worship. He was a member of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song that prepared Glory to God, the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Laura de Jong

John Rutter

b. 1945 Person Name: John Rutter, b. 1945 Composer of "[Holy God, Holy and Mighty]" in The Hymnal 1982

Ronald A. Nelson

b. 1927 Composer of "[Holy God, Holy and mighty One]" in The New Century Hymnal Ronald A. Nelson With degrees from St. Olaf College and the University of Wisconsin Madison, Ronald A. Nelson served for 37 years as Director of Music at Westwood Lutheran Church in suburban Minneapolis, where he has been named Cantor Emeritus and now serves as choir member. Since his retirement he devotes his time to composing, guest conducting, and serving as organist for Chapel Services at Becketwood, the Senior Cooperative where he and his wife Betty Lou reside. In 1999, he was one of 50 composers chosen to write music for the "Continental Harmony" project of the American Composers Forum and National Endowment for the Arts to celebrate the new millennium. That composition, "Building Bridges," received Honorable Mention in the Waging Peace Through Singing competition of the University of Oregon. For a 2001 Composers Forum "Faith Partners" Commission he wrote music for three Wisconsin parishes of different denominations, and is now doing a second "Faith Partners" for two parishes in Hutchinson, Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award from St. Olaf College, the F. Melius Christiansen Award from Minnesota ACDA, and the Faithful Servant Award from the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, which last year made available a CD of his compositions. In 2007 the book "With A Voice of Singing - Essays on Children, Choirs and Music in the Church" was published in his honor. --www.giamusic.com

Francisco F. Feliciano

1941 - 2014 Person Name: Francisco F. Feliciono Composer of "[Holy God, holy mighty]" in The New Century Hymnal

Bruce E. Ford

b. 1947 Person Name: Bruce E. Ford, b. 1947 Adapter of "[Holy God, Holy and Mighty]" in The Hymnal 1982

James Hutton

1715 - 1795 Arranger of "[Holy God, holy and mighty one]" in Catholic Book of Worship III James Hutton, son of a clergyman and cousin to Sir Isaac Newton, was born in London, Sept. 3, 1715, and followed for some years the trade of a bookseller. In 1739 he visited the Moravian settlement at Herrnbut, where he became acquainted with Count Zinzendorf. He retired from business in 1745, and was ordained a diaconus of the Moravian Church in 1749. He died May 3, 1795. He contributed several hymns to the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. All his hymns were included in an Appendix to his Memoirs, published by Daniel Benham in 1856. --Dictionary of Hymnology, John Julian, 1907 ================= Hutton, James, p. 545, ii. Concerning his hymns we have to note: (1) that No. 3 [p. 546, i.] appeared in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1743, Pt. ii.. No. 242, as "Ah Love! come, sweetly bind me"; and that in some modern collections it begins "0 gracious Saviour [Shepherd], bind us;" (2) and that No. 4 also appeared in 1743, No. 284, as, "How shall the young men cleanse their ways.” --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Alice Jordan

Composer of "[Holy God, Holy and mighty]" in The New Century Hymnal

Barrie Cabena

b. 1933 Person Name: Barrie Cabena, 1933- Composer of "[Holy God holy and mighty]" in Common Praise (1998)

John Karl Hirten

b. 1956 Person Name: John Karl Hirten (b. 1956) Composer of "[Holy God]" in Wonder, Love, and Praise A published composer of a wide range of liturgical, sacred and secular works, John Karl Hirten’s music has been featured on Minnesota Public Radio’s Pipedreams program, at conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Anglican Musicians. His hymn tunes have won awards and his choral music is also regularly performed in churches and concert venues around the world. Recent commissions include Inscriptions, a piece for orchestra and chorus, A complete Evening Service (using the Anglican Prayer Book), and a setting of the chorale "Ein feste Burg" in minimalist style. John Karl Hirten has a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he studied with Paul-Martin Maki and Frederick Swann. Before that, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Classical Languages from Fordham University. He has performed organ recitals in venues throughout the country and in Europe. In 2006, he was a finalist in the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Improvisation. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area since 1988, he has performed at virtually all the major venues in the Bay Area. From 1989 until 2016, he played monthly recitals at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor on the historic E. M. Skinner organ there (well over 300 recitals). He has performed regularly at such series as Noontime Concerts, Music at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Grace Cathedral, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley, and elsewhere. In connection with the San Francisco Opera’s 2002 production of Messiaen’s Saint Françoise d’Assise, he performed a recital of the composer’s music at the National Shrine of St. Francis in San Francisco. He has also appeared as organist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Oakland Ballet, the Berkeley Symphony, American Bach Soloists, and others. He was previously Director of Parish Music at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Belvedere, and is currently Director of Music at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ross, California. John Karl Hirten

Richard Fabian

b. 1942 Person Name: Richard Fabian (b. 1942) Composer of "Mode 1 melody" in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Carlos Colón

b. 1966 Person Name: Carlos Colón, n. 1966 Translator (Spanish) of "Santo Dios (Holy God)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Aleksandr Amdreevich Arkhangel'skīi

1846 - 1924 Person Name: Alexander Archangelsky, 1816-1924 Composer of "[Holy God, Holy and Mighty]" in The Hymnal 1982

Mark Mummert

b. 1965 Person Name: Mark Mummert, b. 1965 Composer of "[Holy God, holy and mighty]" in Evangelical Lutheran Worship

Narek Aleēmēzean

b. 1962 Person Name: Bishop Nareg Alemezian Translator of "Soorp Astvatz (Holy God)" in Global Songs for Worship

Brigid Coult

b. 1953 Person Name: Brigid Coult, 1953- Adapter of "[Holy God, holy and mighty]" in Common Praise (1998)

Ruth Boshkoff

b. 1934 Person Name: Ruth Boshkoff (b. 1934) Composer of "[Holy God]" in Wonder, Love, and Praise Ruth Boshkoff is a nationally recognized composer and music educator.