Элизабет Уртель назначена исполняющей обязанности директора Центра церковной музыки Конкордского университета в Чикаго

Elisabeth Urtel is appointed interim director of the Center for Church Music, Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Illinois, following the retirement of Barry Bobb, who served for thirteen years. As interim director, Urtel will oversee the center’s core functions—preserving and developing its physical collections, online resources, and student scholarship programs. She will also continue the center’s mission of encouraging current and future Lutheran church musicians, liturgical artists, and scholars. A church musician with experience as an organist, accompanist, and choir director, Urtel currently served as adjunct instructor of music at Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minnesota. She previously worked as adjunct instructor of history at Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, Minnesota, and was adult choir director for Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Mankato. Urtel is also a published scholar with works featured by Canterbury Press and Lutheran University Press, among others, and served as dean of the Sioux Trails Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. An alumna of Bethany Lutheran College, Urtel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music. She later received a Master of Arts degree in Lutheran theological studies from Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary and a Master of Church Music degree from Concordia University Wisconsin. This year, Urtel completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in historical theology from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, where her research focused on the development of Lutheran hymnody and church life in America.  For information: cuchicago.edu. Walter Pelz dead at 99 Read more Carl Schalk dead at 91 Read more Len Berghaus dead at 84 Read more Remembering Lorraine S. Brugh Read more Thomas Goetz to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Fort Pierce, Florida Read more Harold Rutz dead at 90 Read more Ralph Clarence Schultz dead at 92 Read more Cathy Brigham to the American Guild of Organists Read more Nico Tjoelker to St. James Cathedral, Chicago Read more Jennaya Robison to National Lutheran Choir Read more Philip Gehring dead at 94 Read more Rudolf Jan “Rudy” Zuiderveld dead at 75 Read more Morgan F. Simmons dead at 95 Read more Gregory Peterson retires from Luther College Read more David Boe dead at 84 Read more Orpha Ochse dead at 100 Read more Paul L. Davis dead at 90 Read more Michael Rees to Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago Read more