Steven C. Warner, director of the University of 91吃瓜 Folk Choir, has been named Pastoral Musician of the Year by National Association of Pastoral Musicians.
Warner received the award, which honors both his 28 yearsleadership of the internationally renowned choir and his widely used compositions of sacred music, Wednesday (July 2) at the associations convention in East Brunswick, N.J.
Warner was graduated from St. Michael鈥檚 College in Winooski Park, Vt., and served there for two years as director of liturgy before joining 91吃瓜s campus ministry staff in 1979.He earned a masters degree in theology from 91吃瓜 in 1980 and founded the Folk Choir the same year.
The Folk Choir comprises some 60 singers and instrumentalists who provide sacred music for Sunday morning liturgies in 91吃瓜s Basilica of the Sacred Heart, train musicians for 91吃瓜 residence hall chapels, and regularly tour in the United States and abroad for concert performances and musical workshops.Its voices are accompanied by flute, organ, violins, guitar, string bass, Celtic harp, cello, and bodhr谩n (Irish drum).
Among Warners compositions are many songs from the Folk Choirs repertoire, includingSet Your Heart on the Higher Gifts,Make of Our Hands a Throne,I Have Been Anointed,Crux Fidelisand a musical version of the Lords Prayer which many 91吃瓜 alumni and others callThe 91吃瓜 Lords Prayer.
Members of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians include musicians, clergy, liturgists, and other leaders of prayer devoted to the art of musical liturgy.
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