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Kyle Babin appointed Organist/Choir Master of Christ Church

I am pleased to have this opportunity to write to you to introduce myself to the parish of Christ Church. I am Kyle Babin and I am pleased to assume the position of Organist, Choir Master at Christ Church. I am a doctoral candidate for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) at the Manhattan School of Music where I study with McNeil Robinson whom some of you know as he wrote a piece of music for the bicentenary of Christ Church and was the teacher of Maxine Thevenot. I come to New York from Texas where I graduated from Rice University with a Bachelor of Music degree and Yale University where I earned a Masters Degree in Music. I have served as Organist, Choir Master at two churches in the New York metropolitan area prior to coming to Christ Church. Before coming to New York and while a student at Yale, I served as assistant to Paul Halley both at Trinity Church in Torrington and with his professional choral group, Chorus Angelicus and Gaudeamus. Paul Halley was previously Organist, Choir Master at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. 

 I have equal interest in choral and organ music and I look forward to continuing the strong choral tradition which was rekindled by my predecessor Nancy Ludwig. In addition I hope to present to Christ Church and the community the finest of the organ repertoire with preludes and postludes ranging from Bach to Marcel Dupré and beyond.

I hope you will choose to come to church a little early so that you might prepare for worship and enjoy the organ music of the great masters.

I would also like to urge any of you with interest, even you who are short on experience and education, to consider joining the choirs of Christ Church. Please also feel free to invite your friends from outside the church to be part of what I hope will be a very rewarding musical as well as religious experience at Christ Church.

The Senior Choir will rehearse on Thursday evenings at 7:30pm and again on Sunday mornings at 9am.  The Junior Choir will meet on Tuesday afternoons at 5:30pm. We will be flexible with age groups for the Choirs and will be quite willing to make changes wherever possible to adjust ourselves to your busy schedules.   

Please do take a moment to introduce yourself to me before or after services and if you would like me to call on you, please leave a message at the office and I will be in contact with you.            

6 September 2006