Music Staff

Director of Music and Principal Organist: Scott Turkington
Associate Organist: Larry Long
Music Administrative Assistant: Rebecca Hickok
musiclibrarybecky@gmail.com

Organ Curator and Recording Engineer: Brian Reed
Visiting Organist: Alex Collier

Scott Turkington

Scott Turkington is the organist and choirmaster for the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist. A director of the Church Music Association of America (www.musicsacra.com), he is a frequent director of workshops in sacred music sponsored by dioceses around the United States, as well as many American conferences in Gregorian chant and Classical polyphony. Recent lectures have been at St. Thomas’ Church, 5th Avenue, and the Morgan Library, Madison Ave. He has been Music Teacher and Organist at the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (Cambridge, Massachusetts), under Theodore Marier, and is currently on the teaching staff of the Charleston Catholic School. He is the founder and conductor of the Stamford Schola Gregoriana, comprised of some of New York’s leading early music ensemble singers, whose working repertoire covers all aspects and periods of music of the Latin Rite from Gregorian chant to the present day with special emphasis on 16th and 17th century polyphony. A native of Minneapolis, he studied music at the University of Minnesota, the Boston Conservatory of Music and The Catholic University of America. In frequent demand as an organ recitalist, he has played innumerable recitals in the United States, having made his New York debut at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He has performed for a national convention of the Organ Historical Society, and is a featured performer on the Organ Historical Society’s compact disc, Organs of Baltimore. In 1994, his choir performed for Pope John Paul II at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. He is editor of A Gregorian Chant Master Class by Theodore Marier, published by the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut. This book and its companion CD feature the Stamford Schola Gregoriana and the nuns of Regina Laudis, both conducted by Turkington.

Larry Long

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