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About our instructor, Anne Schoepp :
Anne Schoepp serves as Protopsaltis and Choir Director at St. Lawrence Orthodox Church in Felton, California. She also directs the St. Lawrence Academy Children’s Choir in musicals, concerts, and weekday festal services. In her private studio, she teaches piano, violin, voice, and conducting, is currently teaching conducting for the OCA Basic Conducting series, and she taught K-8 class music at St. Lawrence Academy for over 15 years.
As a composer and arranger, Ms. Schoepp is passionate about setting text in a way that sings beautifully in English, brings the message to life, and can infuse beauty into the worship in average parishes. She also composes and arranges music specifically for children’s choirs. Her liturgical settings and recordings are available at www.seraphim6.com, an online publishing company she runs with colleague, Alice Hughes.
Ms. Schoepp holds a BA in Music from Stanford University, with emphases in voice, composition and conducting, and has continued her studies independently. She founded the West Coast Liturgical Singing Seminar with Alice Hughes in 1994, bringing in speakers from around the country, directing and teaching at that event through 2013. She served on the board of PSALM (Pan-Orthodox Society for the Advancement of Liturgical Music) from 1996-2013, publishing and contributing articles to PSALM Notes, and organizing events.
Ms. Schoepp has sung with Josquin Singers in Berkeley, CA under the direction of John M. Boyer, in Santa Cruz Chorale with Christian Grube, and in Slavyanka Russian Chorus in San Francisco with Irina Shachneva, touring Russia with Slavyanka in 2016. She performs locally as violinist and vocalist in folk music, and she directed and recorded music for the film Painting Saint Lawrence: A Life in Icons. More recently she has directed a recording of hymns for the Feast of the Annunciation: Eternal Mystery.
