PSALM Notes Staff and Editorial Board

Alice Hughes, Editor-in-Chief
Katherine Hyde, Managing Editor
Walt Obleschuk, Resource Editor
Mark Bailey, Music Editor
Anne Schoepp, Associate Editor
Vladimir Morosan, Associate Editor
Nicholas Schidlovsky, Associate Editor

PSALM Notes Contributors

Bishop Basil (Essey)
Titular Bishop of Enteh al-Koura and Auxiliary Bishop for the Southwest Region and Mississippi Valley Deanery, Antiochan Orthodox Christian Archdiocese.

Bishop Demetri (Khoury)
Bishop of Jableh, Syria, and Auxiliary Bishop, Midwestern Region, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese.

Fr. Robert Arida
Dean, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Boston, Massachusetts, Orthodox Church in America.

Fr. John Breck
Professor of Biblical Interpretation and Ethics, St. Sergius Theological Institute, Paris, and Director, St. Silouan Retreat Facility, Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina

Fr. Alkiviadis Calivas
Professor, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Fr. Sergei Glagolev
Retired Lecturer, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York; Professor Emeritus, St. Tikhon's Seminary, South Canaan, Pennsylvania; Director Emeritus, Fellowship of Orthodox Stewards; Visiting Professor, St. Herman's Seminary, Kodiak, Alaska. Retired priest and composer, Orthodox Church in America

Fr. Lawrence Margitich
Pastor, St. Seraphim Orthodox Church, Santa Rosa, California.

Fr. Stephen Meholick
Pastor, St. Nicholas Church, San Anselmo, California.

Michael Breck
Graduate of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York. Currently pursuing graduate work.

David Drillock
Professor of Liturgical Music, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, New York.

Isaac Lambertsen
Reader and Chanter, Synodal Cathedral of the Mother of God of the Sign, New York City; Translator, The Menaion, St. John of Kronstadt Press.

Kevin Lawrence
Choir Director, Dormition of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church, and String Chair, North Carolina School of the Arts.

Amy Schwarze
Graduate of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, Crestwood, New York, and Choir Director, Archangel Michael Orthodox Church, Burbank, Illinois.

Biographical Notes

Mark Bailey, a co-founder of PSALM, Inc., serves on the faculty of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary, Crestwood, New York, where he conducts and teaches composition, choral leadership techniques, and voice. He is also the Artistic Director of the Yale Russian Chorus (YRC). His music performance degrees are from the Eastman School of Music and the Yale School of Music. His work with the YRC is featured on the recording Chants and Carols, which has received critical acclaim. In addition to extensive conducting and recording achievements, he is a prolific composer of instrumental and choral/vocal music and has been noted by The New York Times as an expert in the field of Slavic sacred music. Back to Top

Alice Hughes is a co-founder of PSALM, Inc. and currently serves as its Treasurer and as Editor-in-Chief of PSALM Notes. She served as Executive Director of PSALM, Inc., from 1996 to 2000. She holds a B. Mus. degree in Choral Music Education from the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. She has served as a church choir director and voice teacher for 20 years and for eight years has directed an Orthodox children's choir. With her long-time collaborator, Anne Schoepp, she established the West Coast Liturgical Singing Seminar and has produced and directed three recordings for Seraphim Six Productions. She is Choir Director at the St. Lawrence Chapel in Felton, California. Back to Top

Katherine Hyde is Managing Editor of PSALM Notes, where her duties include copyediting, design, and layout of the publication. She has worked in Christian publishing since 1982, including several years at Thomas Nelson Publishers and five years at Conciliar Press. She now works freelance. Katherine has a BA in Russian Literature from Reed College and sings soprano in the choir of St. Lawrence Chapel in Felton, California. Back to Top

Vladimir Morosan, D.M.A., President of the Board of Directors of PSALM, Inc., has worked in the field of Orthodox singing for more than 25 years. His undergraduate work was at Occidental College, in California, and he holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Choral Music from the University of Illinois. He has directed choirs in parishes of Russian, Serbian, and Antiochian backgrounds and has taught and lectured widely at church music workshops and conferences. His book Choral Performance in Pre-Revolutionary Russia (1986) is considered the definitive study of this topic. He is President of Musica Russica, a publishing house specializing in Orthodox and Russian music and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Monuments of Russian Sacred Music series. He is Choir Director at SS. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church, Meriden, Connecticut. Back to Top

Walter G. Obleschuk is a founding member of PSALM, Inc. and serves as Resource Editor of PSALM Notes. A graduate of West Chester University in Pennsylvania with a degree in Music History and Theory, he has directed church choirs for more than 20 years. His numerous compositions and arrangements of Orthodox Church music have been widely disseminated. He serves as Chair of the Liturgical Music Ministries for the Orthodox Church in America. He is Choir Director at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Boston, Massachusetts, and is the founder and Musical Director of Holy Trinity Chorale.
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Nicholas Schidlovsky, PhD, PSALM Board member, is a chant historian and author of leading publications on the study of early Christian music. He holds a graduate degree from Princeton University in Historical Musicology. Specializing in a broad spectrum of liturgical traditions from medieval Latin to Byzantine-Greek and early Slavic, he is published in academic journals and is an advocate of new research in the music of the Old Believers and Russian chant. His most recent contribution is the publication of an early Slavic Sticherarion as Volume 12 of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae series of manuscript editions (Copenhagen: 2000). As an active church singer and musician, he was the founding director of "The Chant and Choral Arts Seminar"(Princeton, New Jersey, 2000) and has spearheaded other initiatives on behalf of music and worship in modern-day Orthodox usage, with emphasis on the traditions of canonical chant. Back to Top

Anne Schoepp is a co-founder of PSALM, Inc. and an Associate Editor and Art Director of PSALM Notes. She holds a B.A. in Music from Stanford University and has more than 15 years experience in Orthodox liturgical music leadership positions. She teaches music privately and at St. Theophan Academy. With Alice Hughes, she has organized and directed the West Coast Liturgical Singing Seminar and has produced and directed three recordings for Seraphim Six Productions. She is co-director of the choir of the St. Lawrence Chapel in Felton, California, for which she arranges and composes liturgical music.
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