Staff
Music Director:
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Richard Tanner
Organist and Director of Music at Blackburn Cathedral, Blackburn, UK
The Music Director for this year’s course is Richard Tanner, Organist and Director of Music at Blackburn Cathedral since 1998. At Blackburn he has led a music program which has grown considerably under his leadership. There are currently around 170 singers involved in music making at the Cathedral.
As well as championing the work of the historic Cathedral Choir of boys and men and supporting the work of the Young People's Choir, Richard has developed singing opportunities for girls, and for children aged 5-8. There have been a number of radio and television broadcasts featuring the choirs of the Cathedral and many commercial recordings have been made in the Cathedral.
As an organist, he is busy as a recitalist and also enjoys giving concerts with his wife, the soprano Philippa Hyde.
Richard was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral, student at the Royal Academy of Music, and organ scholar of Exeter College, Oxford and St Albans Cathedral. Immediately before moving to Blackburn he spent five years as Director of Music at All Saints Church, Northampton.
Course Manager:
- The Rev. Linda Rosengren
Deacon, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Jacksonville, Florida
Organists:
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Mark Laubach
Minister of Music, St. Stephen's Pro-Cathedral, Wilkes-Barre, PA, the host church for the King's College Course
Since January 1986, Mark Laubach has served as Minister of Music at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church where he administers a busy liturgical, choral, concert, and broadcasting schedule. In 2002, under Mr. Laubach's leadership, St. Stephen's large pipe organ was rebuilt by the Berghaus Organ Company of Chicago. This instrument now stands among the finest of its type in the Mid-Atlantic region, having won high praise from organists and audiences. He is active in the RSCM America, having participated as an organist for its summer training courses at Valley Forge in 1993 and 1994. In 1995, this same course was moved to St. Stephen's, Wilkes-Barre, and was managed by Mr. Laubach from 1996 through 1998. He continues to serve as host and organist for the course.