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Our Music Director

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Jesse Nathan Glaude, our music director since 2005, is the founder and executive director of the Christ Church School of the Arts as well as the Chamber Music at Christ Church series. Each was created to enrich the artistic life of the community through both professional instruction and performance.

Jesse is the past Dean of the New London County Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and chairs the Guild's committee for New Organist Development, which annually awards the Roberta Bitgood Scholarship to young musicians seeking a career in the field.

In 2008 he designed and oversaw the installation of our new sanctuary organ - a landmark Rodgers instrument of three manuals and 130 speaking stops.

Jesse is a summa cum laude graduate of the Westminster Choir College, where he studied sacred music, choral conducting, organ and harpsichord.

There he was named an Andrew J. Rider Scholar for distinguished academic achievement, elected to membership in the National Music Honor Society Pi Kappa Lambda, and was organ scholar at the prestigious Nassau Presbyterian Church. His primary professors included Mark A. Anderson (organ), Gerard Farrell (Gregorian chant), Robin Leaver (sacred music), Robert Carwithen (improvisation), James Jordan and Andrew Megill (choral conducting).

Jesse continued his training at the Princeton Early Keyboard Center, under the tutelage of harpsichordist and recording artist Gavin Black.

Visit Jesse on the Web at jessenathanglaude.blog.com.

CCSArts Gift Certificate

Give the gift of music this Christmas Season with Lessons at CCSArts! Come into the Christ Church School of the Arts office to purchase a Gift Certificate in any denomination! Cash or Check made out to: Christ Church School of the Arts.

Office open: Tuesday-Friday, 10 AM-4 PM. You may also call the CCSArts office at 860-425-0663 for more information.

An unexpected yet appreciated gift for the musician or musician-to-be!