Trinity’s Director of Music
Since being named “Young Organist of the Year” by Keyboard Arts, Inc. while still an undergraduate, Janette Fishell has established herself as one of her generation’s leading concert artists. Dedicated to historically informed performance of repertoire from a wide range of historical periods, she is cited as one of the world’s leading experts on the music of the Czech composer Petr Eben. Her project Velvet Revolution presents his opera omnia for solo organ recorded on the two superb C. B. Fisk concert hall instruments of Indiana University, as well as companion essays and a teaching video.
As Professor of Music at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music she helps shape the next generation of organists, church musicians and educators in applied lessons and the department’s innovative organ pedagogy core curriculum. A life-long dedication to the vocation of sacred music has led to part-time parish ministry as choral conductor and organist, positions that also inspired compositions and recording projects. Her passions come together in the creation of outreach programs nurturing church musicians and new organists.
Elijah Buerk is a senior at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studies Composition and Organ. This is his second year as Undergraduate Organ Scholar at Trinity Episcopal Church. He is thankful for his supportive family, friends, and mentors, including Dr. Janette Fishell, who are all instrumental in his growth and development as a person and a musician.
Emily Ballentine ErbEmily Ballentine Erb is earning her Master of
Music in Organ Performance and Sacred Music
at IU, in the studio of Dr. Janette Fishell, and is the Music Intern at Trinity Episcopal Church. She is
from Philadelphia, and she taught music in
schools and worked as a church musician for
many years on the East Coast before coming to
Bloomington for her current degree program. Emily has her MA in music education from Columbia University and her BM in piano performance from James Madison University.
To join our choir, please email or speak with our Music Director.
Trinity is fortunate and can fund an organ scholar and music intern. If you would like more information, please contact our Music Director..
The Daniel Music Fund, begun in 1985 as a memorial to the late Dr. Ralph Daniel, enables Trinity to fund choral scholar positions, which are awarded to Indiana University voice majors during their course of study. The Daniel Fund now embraces the Phillips Fund, established by Mary Wennerstrom and Leonard Phillips, and the Laughlin and Rayfield Funds, given in memory of Trinity’s former rector Hugh Laughlin and former organist/choir director, Robert Rayfield.
An annual tradition celebrating the lives of saints in heaven and departed souls, this musical offering will include music of joy and remembrance presented by the Trinity Choir in the church.
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