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Kevin Lawrence is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York, and is currently string chair and violin professor at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC, as well as Artistic Director of the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. He is the choir director of Dormition Greek Orthodox Church in Greensboro, NC, and has more than 17 years experience directing singing in churches of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. His compositions, arrangements and translations are used in Orthodox parishes throughout the US and at regional and national gatherings of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, which honored him in 2002 with the St. Romanos Award.

Walter G. Obleschuk, an active composer and arranger of Orthodox liturgical music, is a member of the OCA Department of Liturgical Music. A third-generation church musician of Ukrainian ancestry, Mr. Obleschuk holds a degree in Music theory and History from West Chester University in Pennsylvania. A parish choir director for nearly 25 years, he has been in his current position at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Boston, MA for the past 17.

Kurt Sander is currently assistant professor and coordinator of music theory and composition at Northern Kentucky University. He holds degrees in music composition from Cleveland State University, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Northwestern University. He has been an active member of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and has given numerous lectures on Orthodox music and aesthetics at the annual Russian Orthodox Church Musicians conferences.

Michael Khoury, attorney, is providing the Committee with (pro bono) consulting services concerning copyrights and other legal matters related to the OLMR.

Theodore Feldman, a Data Base Administrator for FM Global Insurance Company in Norwood, MA, is developing the Music Data Base Index and Search Engine for the OLMR.

Submitted by Walter Obleschuk

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