Officers and Committees of the Chapter 2018-2020

She is the music director for MagnificatBoston, a choir of choristers from throughout the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, specializing in the promotion and singing of Evensong services in the (Episcopal) Diocese of Massachusetts. She attended New England Conservatory and Valparaiso University, with additional study in Freiburg, Germany in 1985-86 during which time she played recitals, studied new music for the organ and learned to conduct a choir in German. She has given organ recitals on both U.S. coasts and numerous places in between. Since 1986, she has been on the music faculty of Milton Academy, a college preparatory secondary boarding school. In 2008, she was awarded the Talbot Baker Award for Teaching by the Academy. At Milton, Louise plays the 30-stop 1971 Casavant organ for chapel services and special events, directs choral groups and musical theater productions, teaches music history and General Music classes and coordinates an international music exchange program. As a composer she has been commissioned by the American Guild of Organists (AGO) for both national and regional gatherings and the American Composers Forum. Among her recent works is The Young Shepherds’ Tale, a musical play for choir, congregation and organ. Louise co-headed the New Music Committee for the Boston 2014 AGO National Convention and has planned the WIM (Women In Music) Fest 2016 for the Boston Chapter of the AGO. She presented at the first Musforum conference in Manhattan in June 2015. Louise likes to think of music in this way: “Music creates a connection when listeners listen, singers sing and players play.”

Bruns has performed numerous recitals with engagements including St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey in London, Canterbury Cathedral, Washington National Cathedral, St. James’ Cathedral in Toronto, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Methuen Memorial Music Hall, St. Paul Cathedral and Heinz Memorial Chapel in Pittsburgh, and other venues in the United States and England. Future engagements include the Fasor Reformed Church in Budapest, Hungary.

Throughout his career he has been an active member of the Boston Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, having served on the Executive Committee in many capacities, and currently is treasurer. His sacred music posts have included Lutheran churches, Episcopal parishes, an Episcopal cathedral and an Episcopal monastic community.
Daryl is very interested in singing and the choral art, and sang for many years with the choir of men and boys at The Parish of All Saints – Ashmont in Dorchester. He currently sings for Night Song and with The Seraphim Singers, serving as President of the Board of Directors. He also has an active career as a substitute church musician, which sometimes involves working with choirs.

Daryl is responsible for conceiving Night Song, described several years ago as unique in the entire country by a graduate student surveying compline liturgies. It is partially inspired by compline at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle, a tradition that extends beyond 50 years duration. Night Song is a direct reflection of Bichel’s affinity for Gregorian chant, Renaissance polyphony, jazz and art. It also employs elements of Anglo-Catholic liturgy, such as chant, incense and icons. Beyond that, it provides an opportunity for him to use his skills as a composer. He has arranged two compline settings and composed four other settings, all used regularly at Night Song. These are all used regularly at Night Song. He also has written hymns and psalm settings for Night Song.

A professional choral conductor and organist, Jay has released four recordings of 16th century polyphony with his Renaissance choir, Vox Lucens. He has directed numerous musical organizations, including the Wakefield Choral Society, the Yale Bach Society, the Branford Chamber Orchestra, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Societies of Yale and MIT.

An accomplished church musician, Jay has served as organist and choir director at First Baptist Church New Haven CT, the Episcopal Church at Yale, Church of the Good Shepherd in Acton MA, and First Religious Society UU, Newburyport, MA. Presently he is music director at St. Anne’s in-the Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln, MA.  Jay has taught music history and theory at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts, and has co-authored an article in the New Grove Dictionary of Music. His teachers include Lin Schuller (voice) Roberta Bitgood and Thomas Murray (organ), and Charles Bruck and David Hagy (conducting)

Since 2012, Dr. Kilgore has served as the Minister of Music at the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Acton, Massachusetts, where she plays the organ for services, directs several choirs for adults and youth, and organizes the First Friday Concert Series.

Dr. Kilgore founded the Center Stage School of Performing Arts in Massachusetts, also serving as its Executive/Artistic Director for eight years. For Center Stage, Tish wrote more than a dozen musical theater pieces for children, including versions of several Tchaikovsky ballets. She has worked in several churches as organist/pianist and choir director, including several years as the Music Director at the First Church Unitarian in Groton, Massachusetts. Dr. Kilgore is the founding President of the American Liszt Society Boston/Northern New England Chapter and active member of the national organization, as well as the British Liszt
Society.

Prior to attending the Harvard Divinity School, from which she received an M. Div. degree, Joy had an extensive career in public service, serving as Chief Legal Counsel to the Governor, as an Assistant Attorney General, as Executive Assistant United States Attorney, and as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Joy has also earned an A.B. degree from Harvard-Radcliffe and a law degree from Harvard Law School. Joy and her husband, Robert Fallon, have been married for thirty-two years and are the parents of a college son and a post-college daughter.