Start: January 28, 2024 3 p.m.
End: January 28, 2024 4:30 p.m.
Location: Sursa Performance Hall
Contact Details
Marko Petricic
765-285-3598
About
Jeffrey Smith is professor of practice in organ and sacred music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Prior to his appointment, Smith was director of music at St. Paul’s Parish, K Street, in Washington, D.C. He served as Jacobs visiting associate professor of music from 2009 to 2011. Smith was music director at St. Paul’s K Street for 17 years. St. Paul’s is well known as a beacon of liturgical and musical excellence. From 2004 to 2009, Smith served as canon director of music at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. While there, he conducted its Choir of Men and Boys in an extensive liturgical program, devised and conducted tours and recordings, and oversaw a weekly concert series. He is active as a choral conductor, workshop leader, and recitalist, and in the work of the Royal School of Church Music, American Guild of Organists, and Association of Anglican Musicians. He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University and also studied at Northwestern University and the Royal College of Music, London. He won highest honors in receiving the fellowship of the American Guild of Organists. He is a fellow of the Royal School of Church Music and of the Guild of Church Music (U.K.). His teachers included Thomas Murray, Wolfgang Rübsam, John Birch, and David Willcocks. He studied improvisation with Gerre Hancock and Philippe Lefebvre, organist of Notre Dame de Paris. As a commentator on church music, Smith has been heard on both NPR and BBC radio, and his choral and organ disks on the Pro Organo label have been critically praised. His compositions are published by E. C. Schirmer.
Program
Program to be announced.
Free Admission
This event is free and open to the public.
Parking
Parking is available in the McKinley Parking Garage (entrance on Ashland Avenue) located immediately south of Sursa Hall. On weekdays, metered parking ($1/hr) is available on the first floor of the garage until 7 p.m. at which time parking is free. This garage is free on weekends.