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[details ←] Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit, vocal, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] Motet for Mary, Mother of God (No. 4 from ’Six Marian Motets’), vocal, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] Motet for the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (No. 1 from ’Six Marian Motets’), vocal, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] Motet for the Nativity of the Mother of God (No. 2 from ’Six Marian Motets’), vocal, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] Ye Sons of Men, With Me Rejoice (Parts) (No. 1 from ’Two Irish Christmas Carols’), vocal, cello, flute, harp, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti (No. 5 From ’The Hildegard Motets’), vocal, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] The Hildegard Organ Cycle (2nd Edition), organ,
[details ←] Caritas abundat (No. 2 from ’Hildegard Triptych’), vocal, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] O Virtus Sapientiae (No. 3 From ’Hildegard Triptych’), vocal, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] O Vis Aeternitas (No. 1 From ’Hildegard Triptych’), vocal, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] Nunc Dimittis (Song of Simeon), vocal, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] Angels, organ,
[details ←] A Festival of Carols (harp part), harp, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] A Festival of Carols (score), vocal, harp, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] Elegy (from ’Stabat Mater’), vocal, voice solo, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] Good People All, This Christmastime (No. 2 from ’Two Irish Christmas Carols’), vocal, cello, flute, harp, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] Good People All, This Christmastime (Parts) (No. 2 from ’Two Irish Christmas Carols’), vocal, cello, flute, harp, , choral, vocal,
[details ←] Nos Galan (Piano & Perc Parts), piano, percussion, vocal, , choral, vocal,
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Born: 18 June 1950 — Barberton, OH — USA
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Frank Ferko (b. 18 June 1950, Barberton, Ohio) has worked for 20 years in Chicago in the double capacity of free-lance composer and organist/choral conductor. At the age of nine he began piano study in Barberton, Ohio with Grace Baughman and in high school he studied with Richard Shirey, a member of the music faculty at the University of Akron. He began work as a church organist at the age of 14, and two years later he began to conduct a church choir. At 18 he entered Valparaiso University and received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano and organ performance from Valparaiso in 1972. He received the Master of Music degree in music theory (with a minor in organ performance) from Syracuse University one year later. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Northwestern University where he studied with Alan Stout. His other teachers have included Richard Wienhorst (composition) and Philip Gehring (organ) at Valparaiso University, Howard Boatwright (theory) and Will O. Headlee (organ) at Syracuse University. For more than twenty-five years he held the post of director of music at various churches in the midwest, the most recent having been the Church of St. Paul and the Redeemer in Chicago, a post he held for more than six years. He now devotes most of his available time to composition.

Mr. Ferko’s works have been performed by such distinguished artists as the Dale Warland Singers, His Majestie’s Clerkes, the Lutheran Choir of Chicago, Chicago Choral Artists and the American Repertory Singers, soprano Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet, duet keyboardists Timothy and Nancy LeRoi Nickel as well as organists David Craighead, Larry Palmer, Douglas Cleveland, Leonard Raver and Edward Hansen and also through the sponsorship of New Music Chicago, the Chicago Composers’ Consortium and the American Composers Forum. In addition to American performances Mr. Ferko’s works have also been presented in concert in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Israel and Japan and broadcast on Vatican Radio, Cultura FM in São Paolo (Brazil), National Public Radio as well as WQXR in New York and WFMT and WNIB in Chicago. (Specific names of other performers and persons who have commissioned new works from Mr. Ferko can be found on the Discography page or the Catalog of Works page in this web site.) Mr. Ferko has received national awards in composition, including the 1989-1990 AGO/Holtkamp Award from the American Guild of Organists, and has received annual ASCAP awards since 1989. In 1991 he received grants from Meet the Composer as well as from the Community Arts Assistance Program of Chicago, and in 1995 and again in 1998 he received the coveted Composer Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council. In 1997 the Dale Warland Singers named Frank Ferko as the recipient of their 1998-99 choral commission in the New Choral Works Program for Emerging Composers. His works are published by E. C. Schirmer with whom he has an exclusive publishing agreement, and more than 20 of his works have been recorded on compact disc, primarily on the Arsis label and The Liturgical Press. His setting of Stabat Mater for unaccompanied mixed chorus and soprano solo has also been recorded on compact disc for Cedille Records with soprano Nancy Gustafson and His Majestie’s Clerkes, conducted by Anne Heider. Mr. Ferko has also presented his own works in lecture/demonstrations for various chapters of the American Guild of Organists, for the music departments at Valparaiso University and Marylhurst College (Oregon), at Northwestern University and the Eastman School of Music.

As a scholar of the music of Olivier Messiaen, Mr. Ferko has lectured on Messiaen’s organ music and has performed many of Messiaen’s works in concert. He has also written articles for The American Organist on avant-garde music in the church and on the organ music of the Swiss composer Marc Briquet.

Mr. Ferko’s compositions based on his research on the life, music and writings of Hildegard von Bingen have recently gained international attention. During the summer of 1998 Mr. Ferko was invited to perform his Hildegard Organ Cycle at the Holland Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht (Netherlands), a performance which marked the European premiere of the work and was funded by the Festival and a grant from Arts International. This was followed by the West Coast U.S. premiere of the work which took place at the Cathedral of St. Mary in San Francisco. Other performances of this work have been presented in major cities across the U.S. since 1991. Similarly, Ferko’s Hildegard Motets have been performed by college choirs and professional choruses across America, and his articles about the music of Hildegard and her influence on present-day composers have appeared in the British sacred music journal Choir & Organ.

Mr. Ferko holds memberships in the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), American Music Center, American Guild of Organists, American Composers’ Forum, Pi Kappa Lambda and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

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