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ABOUT DAVID BOWER Dr. David N. Bower is an American organist, church musician & composer. He was appointed Director of Music & Organist at St. Michael Church in Cranford, New Jersey in 2009 where he oversees the entire music program and the musical life of the parish. St. Michael Church is the third largest parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, which comprises nearly 300 parishes. It is a congregation of over 20,000 members within over 4,000 household units. Dr. Bower directs the adult choir (auditioned), handbell choir, resurrection choir (funeral choir), contemporary youth ensemble, a cantor ministry and two assistant conductors. He presides over the music for nearly 400 liturgies each year. Born in Rochester, New York, he began his early organ study at Roberts Wesleyan College with Professor Anne Honeywell before matriculating into the organ department at The State University of New York College at Fredonia, where, under his principal teacher, Dr. John T. Hofmann, he earned his Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance. During his junior year as an undergraduate, he also studied organ in Vienna, Austria at the Diocesan Conservatory for Church Music under Dr. Gerard Boellmann, Oberkapellmeister of St. Ulrich’s Kirche. He earned his Master of Music degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey in the class of Dr. Joan Lippincott. While at Westminster he sang in the Westminster Symphonic Choir under Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Hugh Wolf, Sir David Willcocks, Leonard Bernstein, and studied choral conducting with Frauke Haaseman. He earned his PhD in music education from New York University in 2008. During his doctoral coursework, he completed his Kodály music education certification. Dr. Bower has performed organ recitals at such places as St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Princeton University, Columbia University, St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC, The National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, The Richard M. Ferris Organ at the Round Lake Auditorium in Round Lake, NY, Irvine Auditorium at the University of Pennsylvania, and Kings Chapel in Boston, among many others. He has served on the faculties at New York University’s Expository Writing Program in the College of Arts and Science and at The New School for Music Study, the Francis Clark Center for Keyboard Study in Princeton, NJ. He has presented published papers on the topic of music education at numerous academic conferences including the College Music Society in Quebec City, Canada in 2005 and the International Society for Music Education in Bologna, Italy in 2008. His article Musical Knowledge and Choral Curriculum appears in Visions of Research in Music Education and his recent book is called Constructivism in Music Education Technology: Creating and Environment for Choral Composition. As a composer, Dr. Bower has written extensively for choir, organ and congregation. In 2013, his Christmas choral anthem Our Hope Is Borne This Christmastide was debuted by the St. Michael Parish Choir. His hymn “All People That On Earth Do Dwell (Aldenwayne L.M.)” debuted in 2015 in the parish and his choral anthem “O Sun of Justice” was debuted in 2014. Prior to his 2009 appointment at St. Michael’s, he served as Director of Music & Organist for 16 years at St. Ann Church in Raritan, New Jersey where he built a large, multi-choir music program and taught music in the adjoining St. Ann School. He is an active member of both the New York City and Metropolitan New jersey Chapters of the American Guild of Organists, and has been a member of the AGO since 1985. He is a performing member of the Westfield Musical Club and he serves on the National Special Interest Committee for Music Education in the National Association of Pastoral Musicians.