Listening Session: Music at St. James Parish

Name: Listening Session: Music at St. James Parish
Start: 2024-10-13T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-13T17:00:00-04:00
Location: St. James Parish

October 13, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

The search for a new St. James Director of Music is officially underway! Our St. James Director of Music Search Committee wants your input. The Search Committee will host Listening Sessions in the church following the 10:15 service on October 13 & 20.

During these sessions, the Search Committee will invite the parish to give feedback on visions and dreams for our music program as we move forward. There will also be an opportunity to provide written feedback if you cannot attend one of these sessions.

Details

Date:: October 13, 2024
Time:: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Series:: Listening Session: Music at St. James Parish

Venue

: St. James Parish
: 25 S. Third Street
Wilmington, NC 28401 United States + Google Map

Details

Date:: October 13, 2024
Time:: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Series:: Listening Session: Music at St. James Parish

Venue

: St. James Parish
: 25 S. Third Street
Wilmington, NC 28401 United States + Google Map

The Rev. C. Phillip Craig, Jr.

Rector
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The Rev. Joseph “Gray” Hodsdon

Associate Rector

The Rev. Dr. Bill Weisser

Interim Director of Music

The Rev. Dr. Bill Weisser

Interim Director of Music

Dr. William J. Weisser retired in 2011 as Minister of Music at Edenton St. United Methodist Church in Raleigh, NC where he had been responsible for seven singing choirs, three handbell choirs, three dance ensembles and instrumental ensembles with over 460 participants for over 35+ years. He was the Conductor and Artistic Director of the Capital Area Chorale, a mixed voice community choir for 11 years. He was an Adjunct Assistant Professor on the faculty of North Carolina State University where he directed the University Singers for 5 years; since retirement he served as Interim Director of Music at Centenary UMC in New Bern, NC 2011 – 2012.; as the Interim Music Minister at First UMC in Rocky Mount, NC 2012 – 2013; Interim Director of Music and Organist at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Raleigh, NC, Organist at Hayes Barton UMC in Raleigh, NC, Interim Minister of Music at St. Paul UMC in Goldsboro, NC, Interim Director of Music and Organist at St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Wilmington and now serving as Interim Director of Music and Organist at St James Episcopal in Wilmington NC.

Dr. Weisser is a graduate of Westminster Choir College where he studied Organ with Theodore C. Herzel, Dr. George Markey and Dr. Donald McDonald; Conducting with Robert Simpson, Robert Carwithen and Arthur Sjogren; and Voice with Herbert Pate, Ramon Kyser and Arthur Sjogren. At Westminster he was a member of the world-famous Westminster Choir which toured Puerto Rico. He has done graduate work in Sacred Music at Indiana University under Dr. Oswald Ragatz. Dr. Weisser received a Doctor of Humanities degree from Methodist College in May, 1997. He was also ordained a Deacon in Full Connection in the United Methodist Church in June, 1997.