Richard webster

Richard Webster, will continue his work as Music Director of Bach in the City after leading Bach Week for 50 years. Webster, who splits his time between residences in Chicago and Boston, is a lecturer on the faculty of Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. He recently completed his tenure as interim director of music at St. Paul’s Choir School and Parish, Cambridge, Massachusetts, having retired in 2022 as director of music and organist at historic Trinity Church on Boston’s Copley Square. Webster is organist and choirmaster emeritus at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston, where he served from 1974 to 2003.

As a composer, Richard completes several commissioned works a year. Six houses publish his works, including Advent Press, which publishes his music exclusively.

Webster was appointed Interim Director of Music at St. Paul's Choir School and Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts in July, 2023, and is now entering his third year as a guest lecturer at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He travels extensively to direct hymn festivals and choral workshops, is a regular guest conductor with the Grand Rapids Choir of Men and Boys, and is an honorary Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music (FRSCM). Webster holds an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee.

In April, 2023, at Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church, Richard led a Hymn Festival with the Morning Choir, Tower Brass, and organists for the annual American Guild of Organists Endowment Fund concert, where he received the AGO 2023 Distinguished Artist Award.

Richard is Organist and Choirmaster Emeritus of St. Luke’s Church, Evanston, where from 1974 to 2003 he led the Choir of Men and Boys, Girls Choir, Schola, and St. Luke’s Singers in an active program of worship, concerts, tours, and recordings. The restoration of the 1922 E. M. Skinner organ, Opus 327, was completed in 1998 under his leadership. He studied organ with Peter Fyfe, Karel Paukert, and Wolfgang Rübsam and has performed and recorded with the Chicago and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras.

A passionate runner, Richard has completed 45 marathons. He recently completed the Chicago Marathon on October 8 to benefit the 2024 Bach Week Festival.

Additional information on Mr. Webster is available at: www.advent-press.com.

Jason J. Moy

Jason J. Moy is one of the most sought-after Early Keyboard specialists in the Midwest, and Artistic Director of Ars Musica Chicago, which is presently the only ensemble in the Chicago area dedicated to historically informed performance of chamber music from the 17th and 18th centuries. He is a proud graduate of the Early Music program at McGill University in Canada, and counts Hank Knox, Ketil Haugsand, Andrew Lawrence-King, and the late Bruce Haynes among his most influential teachers and mentors. Jason teaches at DePaul University, where he was awarded the School of Music’s first-ever endowed chair as Monsignor Kenneth J. Velo Distinguished Professor in 2022, and at Roosevelt University, where serves as Artist-Faculty in Early Keyboards in the Chicago College of Performing Arts.

Jason is a founding member of the award-winning period instrument ensemble Trio Speranza, and Associate Music Director of Bach in the City, the successor to the acclaimed Bach Week Festival. He has performed as a soloist and continuo player throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, with notable appearances at the Boston Early Music Festival, the York Early Music Festival (UK), and on the acclaimed Dame Myra Hess and Rush Hour Concert Series in Chicago. He frequently performs with such esteemed ensembles as the Newberry Consort, Haymarket Opera Company, Bella Voce, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, South Bend Symphony Orchestra, and Bella Voce.