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Jayne Southwick Cool
Jayne Southwick Cool is Director of Music at Bethel Lutheran Church in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, where she serves as organist and choir director, and oversees all instrumental ensembles. She has directed bands and choirs in both public and parochial schools, has been a private instructor on French horn and is a freelance horn player in the Greater Cleveland area. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music, with a major in French horn and a minor in keyboard. Graduate studies include work at Kent State University, The University of Akron, Oberlin College and Baldwin-Wallace College. Her compositions and arrangements include works for brass, woodwinds, handbells, organ, mixed and children's choirs, and hymns. Two of her Scripture songs appear on the CD "God Is Watching," a Faith Stepping Stone resource by the Faith Inkubators Music Guild. Jayne is published by Augsburg Fortress, Choristers Guild, G.I.A., Hope, Live Oak House in addition to Selah. In 2000, she was selected co-winner of the Third Millennium Hymn Tune Search sponsored by the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Jayne has been a guest conductor at Choristers Guild children's choir festivals in Ohio and Virginia and a contributor to "The Chorister" magazine. She has served as a clinician for conferences of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada and the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and has led workshops for the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music, Worship and the Other Arts and for the Ohio District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Jayne has served on the Conference Planning Committee for the ALCM 2000 Region 1 Conference, and is available as a resource person in the area of "Small Choirs and Use of Instruments" for the Northeastern Ohio Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Jayne writes, conducts, and leads annual hymn festivals involving mass choirs and instruments from several churches. She also plans an annual Brass Choir Benefit Concert to raise money for the scholarship fund of the Middleburg Early Education Center, a concert for which she writes program notes, arranges music and plays horn and organ. She is also involved as a composer with the Renewing Worship project of the ELCA. Jayne lives with her husband Marty (a trumpet player) in North Royalton, Ohio, and has two married children and one grandchild who are also musicians. Jayne can be contacted at jscool@adelphia.net
A quote from Jayne: "One of the most
important things we can do for our children is to help them recognize
their God-given gifts, help to nurture them, and provide them
with opportunities to use these talents in service to their Lord
and his Church."
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Instrumental
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Church's
One Foundation, The (AURELIA)Arr. Jayne Southwick Cool
(Brass quintet and timpani, organ, and congregation, 820-501)
Lift
High the Cross (CRUCIFER)Arr. Jayne Southwick Cool
(Brass quintet and timpani, organ, and congregation, 820-498)
O
God, Our Help in Ages Past (ST. ANNE)Arr. Jayne Southwick
Cool
(Brass quintet, organ, and congregation, 820-505)
Rise
Up, O Saints of God (FESTAL SONG)Arr. Jayne Southwick
Cool
(Brass quartet, organ, and congregation, 820-410) |
