Friday, March 1, 7-8 PM in St. Mary’s Church, Holliston.
Grace your Lent with an evening of rapturous music by the internationally acclaimed Boys Choir of St. Paul’s Archdiocesan Choir School in Cambridge. Conducted by Richard Webster and accompanied by Organist Brandon Straub. The Choir will perform works by Rheinberger,
Bach and Vivaldi, among others. The Concert is free and open to all.

Church musician, conductor, organist and composer — Richard Webster retired in 2022 as Director of Music and Organist at Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston, where he co-founded the Trinity Choristers in 2005. Richard led the Trinity choirs on five tours of England, with residencies at York Minster; Westminster Abbey; Durham, Ely, Lincoln, Chichester, Salisbury, Wells, Winchester and St. Paul’s Cathedrals. During his tenure, Trinity’s 1926 Skinner nave organ, Opus 573, was successfully renovated and a new 4-manual Skinner replica console added.

​As a composer/arranger he completes several commissioned works a year. His hymn arrangements for brass, percussion, organ and congregation are heard across the world, including the CBC’s Christmas and Easter broadcasts, BBC’s “Songs of Praise,” at a hymn festival in Sweden’s Lund Cathedral, in an Australian celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and on a recording of hymns from Taiwan. Webster’s works are published by Augsburg Fortress, Church Music Society, Church Publishing, Selah, and Advent Press, which publishes his music exclusively. www.advent-press.com

​Mr. Webster is Music Director of Chicago’s Bach Week Festival, which celebrates its Golden anniversary this year, featuring some of the nation’s most acclaimed musicians. www.bachweek.org

Sought after as a choral clinician, he has led choir courses and workshops across the U.S., South Africa and New Zealand. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music (FRSCM), and holds the Doctor of Music degree, honoris causa, from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. On April 21 he was given the Distinguished Artist Award by the American Guild of Organists at a hymn festival he conducted at Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church. He is a guest lecturer at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music.