SSG Summer School 2005

Website Design
This will be a mixture of practical, hands-on work and how to get your site onto the internet, together with the more theoretical aspects of how to position your domain. In particular, we will consider who the site is for, and how we can effectively use the World Wide Web for evangelisation.

Paul Wellicome is the director of an IT company which develops corporate database applications using web interface technology for accessing the data, He has worked as a programmer for nearly 20 years, is currently responsible for the SSG website and is part of the editorial team for Music and Liturgy. He directs the choir and instrumental group in the parish of Our Lady, Lillington, and composes music for the Liturgy. He has formerly been Secretary to the SSG Composers’ Group, and a member of the SSG Committee.

Instrumental Improvisation
Many, many years ago, Ray ran this successful workshop at Liverpool Hope. He’s making a very welcome return this year, a must for anyone who wants to know where to begin, how to launch-off into the unknown and return in safety!

In this workshop be prepared to play, and to learn — modes are not the preserve of the chant specialists!

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Pianist/composer Ray d’Inverno has played in every format from solo to big band. Originally greatly influenced by Bill Evans and subsequently Keith Jarrett, he has emerged in more recent years find his own voice. He was voted top modern soloist in the Dunkirk International Jazz Festival (then Europe’s leading competitive jazz festival) in both 1978 and 1979, and returned the subsequent year to win it with his trio who subsequently appeared on French national TV.

He is an established composer and has had a number of commissions including an Arts Council of Great Britain Bursary for his suite for jazz quartet and string quartet Four by Four which has been performed at three jazz festivals. A subsequent commission was for a choral work April Rise, written for a leading London choir and which has been performed in London, Paris and Florence. He is also a long-serving jazz educator, promoter and administrator.

Choral Singing
A chance for liturgical musicians and non-musicians alike (presiders are welcome!) to experience ensemble singing. We will focus on the ministry of the choir as promoted by the Second Vatican Council, as well as enhancing one’s own prayer through singing. We will explore a variety of choral styles suitable for the liturgy, and there will be the opportunity to acquire some notions of vocal technique.

Darquise Bilodeau, BMus, MMus
Darquise has sung professionally with the Tudor Singers of Montreal, the Opéra de Montréal and the chorus of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. She has given recitals and master classes in Canada and the USA, and performs regularly in this country. Recent performances include recitals in Shrewsbury and Chester, as well as Fauré's Requiem. In addition to her private voice studio, Darquise is a trustee of the Society of Saint Gregory, and is actively engaged in promoting music and liturgy in the Catholic Church.

Living the Word
This is an opportunity to reflect deeply on the Word — perhaps to hear some voices afresh, as if for the first time, and be surprised by the significance of their contribution to our own journey in life. The Word can shape and re-shape our response and our worship of God. A purely academic approach to Scripture and worship touches only a small percentage of people. We all need to open ourselves to use of intuition, experience and symbols to be drawn deeper in to the mysteries of the Word — can the power in the lives of those we read about become a grace in our own lives? We will be exploring using different tools — including lectio divina, mantra, guided meditation, and dialogue.

Caroline Dollard
For the last 10 years, Caroline has been a member of the member of pastoral team at Ampleforth Abbey, running retreats and courses for adults, and more widely in the Diocese of Middlesbrough and beyond. Also member of the Middlesbrough Diocese Bishop’s Council for Liturgy, with particular interest and responsibility in the area of liturgical formation in the Diocese. Caroline is on the working party for Adult Formation in the Diocese, and together with Kit, runs the Diocesan Catechists formation programme. Caroline and Kit have been married for 25 years, has 5 children, ranging between ages 14 and 22. Interests: music of all sorts, creative arts, garden… when she has time!

Music Directors
Starting from scratch, how to build up the parish repertoire by planning both forwards and backwards. Hints for cantors, animators, choir leaders and instrumentalists. Building up congregational singing by attending the parish jumble sale. Finding and training potential cantors or choristers in your community. Introducing instrumental parts. Working with local schools to involve young people. Integrating the choir and the folk group. Although starting from basics, this workshop will have plenty to offer communities who already sing but want to try a new approach.

Nick Baty
started his working life as a music and drama teacher but after “several career accidents” ended up as group editor for a newspaper publisher — although he still thinks of himself, “vocationally”, as a Punch and Judy man. Nick is director of music at Our Lady, Immaculate, Everton, and co-ordinates music for larger events at St Anthony’s Church, on Liverpool’s famous Scotland Road. When he’s not writing and composing, Nick can be found working with His Impudence, Mr Punch, in Southport and New Brighton.

Play the Organ
a chance for pianists to try the organ before committing themselves to their own private lessons. We will explore how the organ works, playing with feet, accompanying (choirs, music groups, etc as well as whole congregations), repertoire (including piano repertoire on the organ) and improvisation.

Stephen Bryant was educated in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and whilst in the sixth-form he was Organ Scholar at Newcastle Cathedral. He moved to Manchester University to read music, during which time he studied the organ with Gordon Stewart, directed several choirs and orchestras as well as being Organ Scholar at Blackburn Cathedral. After graduating in 1996 he went on to pursue a teaching career completing a PGCE course before initially teaching in Liverpool. In 1999 he moved to Bristol, and in January 2003 was appointed Director of Music at Colston’s Collegiate School.

In 2000, he was appointed Organist at Clifton Cathedral, a post he combines with his full-time teaching post. He has undertaken various recordings, broadcasts and tours with the cathedral choir, most recently touring to Italy. He currently studies with Margaret Phillips amongst others, and is much in demand as a recitalist, having already performed throughout the United Kingdom, Europe and America. He has been a prizewinner at the Oundle International Summer School and was a finalist in the Royal College of Organists’ Performer of the Year competition in 2002.

Celebrating Milestones
Being Church with the ‘unchurched’. This workshop will provide an opportunity to reflect together on the challenges, increasingly faced, of celebrating the Church’s liturgy with a congregation that is relatively unchurched. What is it that the Church expects of these celebrations? What do others expect of them? What does it mean to say baptisms, weddings and funerals are opportunities for evangelisation?

Fr Allen Morris
Allen Morris is a priest of Westminster Diocese and chairman of its Liturgy Commission. Rapidly approaching 50, he has been ordained for 14 years. In addition to parish ministry in North and Central London, he has taught liturgy at Allen Hall Seminary. He is presently full-time Secretary to the Department for Christian Life and Worship of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. He writes a regular column for the Universe.

Composing
A workshop for those already composing for the Liturgy.

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Paul Inwood
Paul’s experience covers a wide variety of posts, from parish churches to positions at cathedral and diocesan level. He is perhaps best known as a composer and workshop presenter. Many of his compositions have been published by Oregon Catholic Press, and a substantial number of others have also appeared with GIA Publications, World Library Publications, and Liturgical Press. In the British Isles, his work has appeared in publications from a number of publishing houses including Geoffrey Chapman / Cassell, Collins Liturgical Publications, McCrimmon, Decani Music and Paul’s own publishing imprint, Magnificat Music.

For Young People
will be an activity for younger delegates from 12–18. There are no pre-set plans as yet because we will want to draw on your talents and ideas. We might be thinking about how we express the joy of worship. Your creative minds can show us that praising God is a life-improving activity — through dance, song, drumming, acting — whatever. I had even wondered about doing a psalm to a country and western line dance… so that’s one thought to throw into our pot of ideas!

Bill Tamblyn never meant to be a Professor of Music — that was someone else’s idea — and he still regards himself primarily as an enthusiast about music and liturgy and above all as a teacher. He runs a children’s chorus for the local panto, Quire — an adult World Music folk group — and he does workshops and broadcasts with Gospelphoenix.

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