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COME AND WORSHIP WITH US!
Sunday Services at 10 a.m.
Music Ministry
Dr. Patricia
Snyder
Director of Music Ministry
Trisha received her Bachelor of Music in organ performance from
th e University of Western Ontario, and her Master and Doctor of Musical Arts
in organ performance from Yale University. In addition to directing our
Music Program, Trisha is also an adjunct Professor of Organ at the Hartt
School, the University of Harford. Before coming to Storrs, she was the Director of
Music at the Pakachoag Church (UCC) in Auburn, MA. She also taught
organ and piano at the Pakachoag Community Music School. Previously, Trisha taught music courses at Andover Newton Theological School,
Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, and the College of the Holy Cross, and was the Director of Music at
First Congregational Church in Guilford.
Trisha has received many awards and grants, including
Artist-in-Residence, Cité des Arts (Paris, France), a Gian Silbiger grant, and
a Laurence Korwin International Competitions Grant. She studied in Europe
with Marie-Claire Alain, earning a Premier Prix and Prix
d'Excellence from the Ecole National de Musique de Rueil-Malmaison.
Trisha
is a prizewinner of many competitions, including the Royal Canadian College of
Organists National Competition, and has given recitals in the United States,
Canada, England, France, Spain, Switzerland and Japan. A former Dean of the
Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), she has served the
guild in many capacities; most recently as Director of the Worcester Chapter
Pipe Organ Encounter held in July 2004. Her solo performances have been
broadcast on CBC, BBC, La Radio de la Suisse Romande and WICN
Worcester. She is also an active member in several choral societies. As director and accompanist of the
choral ensemble Con Vivium, she can be heard on the compact disc "Love
Came Down at Christmas," featuring the choral music of Leo Sowerby, including
ten world première recordings, released on the Albany/Troy label.
Adult Choir | Fisk Organ | Dunham Carillon | Carillon
Concerts
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