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Officers of the Academy
USA Representative: Paul Ellison
MA, B. Mus (London) FASC.
Email:
PMEllison@aol.com
Since
October 1990, Paul M Ellison has been Director of Music and
Organist at San Francisco's historic Church of the Advent of
Christ the King, an Episcopal parish in the Anglo-Catholic
tradition. There he directs the church's professional choir,
Schola Adventus, in a comprehensive repertoire of choral music
ranging from Gregorian Chant to first performances of
contemporary works. The emphasis is on unaccompanied renaissance
polyphony. He also directs the Gregorian Schola Cantorum in a
twice-monthly Latin Mass.
A native of Liverpool, England, he was educated at the Royal
Academy of Music, London, where he studied organ with
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent and harpsichord with Virginia
Black, gaining the Recital Diploma for Organ Performance. He
also studied at Queens' College, Cambridge. He holds a B. Mus
from London University, and an MA in musicology from San Jose
State University. He is currently completing Ph.D studies at
Cardiff University.
During his time in London, he was Associate Organist at St.
Pancras Church, and Director of Music and Organist at St. Mary's
Church, The Boltons, in London's fashionable Chelsea. He
emigrated to the United States in August 1988, and is currently
a member of the music faculty of San Francisco State University,
and Assistant Editor of The Beethoven Journal, the periodical of
the American Beethoven Society..
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