Dr. Paul D. Weber is an associate professor of church music as well as the conductor of the A Cappella Choir, Chapel Choir, and College Singers of Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC. He has worked over the past ten year to make Lenoir-Rhyne one of the best sacred music programs in the nation as a newly recognized line of study.
As a composer, Weber has written a variety of music though sacred choral works have been his strong point. His compositions include his Magnificat; Luthers letztes Gebet; The Lord Reigns; Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven; and Arise, Shine!. He has also composed a variety of hymns and liturgical settings for the Lutheran worship.
Weber received a doctorate in choral conducting from The University of Iowa, a master of musical arts degree in composition from Yale University, and a master of music degree in organ performance and composition from Washington University in St. Louis.
Among his composition teachers are Krzysztof Penderecki, Jacob Druckman, and Bruce MacCombie. He has studied conducting and repertoire with Tamara Brooks, Richard Bloesch, William Hatcher, Jon Bailey, Arthur Weisberg, Joseph Flummerfelt and Robert Bergt. Weber has held conducting positions at Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania, and The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho.
Weber is also an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He was in the first graduating class of Christ Seminary-Seminex. He attended Concordia College, Bronxville, N.Y.; Concordia Senior College, Ft. Wayne, IN; and Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, MO. He is married to Florence Jowers, Lenoir-Rhyne College organist and conductor of the Lenoir-Rhyne Youth Chorus.
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1988 St. Olaf Prize
1995 Association of Lutheran Church Musicians’ national composition contest
1995 Chautauqua Chamber Singers Choral Composition Contest
1997 Association of Lutheran Church Musicians’ national composition contest
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2003 Raabe Prize for Sacred Composition
2005-2006 Roediger Distinguished Service Professor