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Stephen P. Starke
b. 1955 Person Name: Stephen P. Starke, b. 1955 Author of "Jesus, Once with Sinners Numbered" in Lutheran Service Book Rev. Stephen P. Starke has always had a heart for hymns. At a young age, Starke played hymns out of The Lutheran Hymnal and read through the hymnal to pass the time before Sunday services.
Pastor Starke graduated from Concordia University Chicago with a BA. While completing his MDiv from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, he attempted his first hymn text and was encouraged to write more. Since that time, he has written more than 175 hymns inspired by music and the Scriptures. He has been commissioned to write hymns for special occasions, including the 125th anniversary of Concordia University Wisconsin, as well as his daughter’s wedding.
Because of his extensive work as a hymnwriter, Pastor Starke received an honorary doctor of letters degree from Concordia University, Irvine, California, and an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon.
It is through the medium of hymns that Pastor Starke desires to preserve and pass on the truths of the Gospel for generations to come.
Stephen P. Starke
William Bradley Roberts
b. 1947 Person Name: William B. Roberts, b. 1947 Composer of "MISSISSIPPI" in Lutheran Service Book William Bradley Roberts is currently Professor Emeritus of Church Music at Virginia Theological Seminary and Director of Chapel Music. He retired in December 2019.
He received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Houston Baptist University with double majors in Voice and Music Education. He received the degrees Master of Church Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from Southern Seminary (Louisville, Ky.) with an emphasis in Conducting and Voice. His doctoral dissertation is entitled Darius Milhaud, His Life and Choral Works with Biblical Texts: A Conductor’s Study.
Roberts was ordained in the Baptist Church in 1971. Prior to his coming to Virginia Seminary, he was an Episcopal church musician for thirty-three years, the most recent position being St. John’s, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. Before coming to St. John’s, he held similar posts in Tucson, Ariz., Newport Beach, Calif., Louisville, Ky., and Houston, Tex.
He has taught on the music faculties of Indiana University Southeast, Southern Seminary, Mars Hills College and Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.
Roberts is a composer with works published by Augsburg-Fortress, G.I.A., Hope, Paraclete, St. James Music Press and Selah. His hymns and other music for worship appear in several volumes including the hymnals of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod and various collections of Church Publishing Inc. He has composed on commissions from a number of schools, churches and individuals.
Dr. Roberts has had articles published in the Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians(AAM), the Journal of the Association of Diocesan Liturgy and Music Commissions, (ADLMC) and The Living Church. An upcoming book, Rise Up, Shepherd: Clergy Building Vibrant Congregations Through Music, will be released by Church Publishing Inc. in the summer of 2009.
Roberts was chair of the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Church Music and a founding board member and chair of the Leadership Program for Musicians. Currently he is a member of the boards of the Seminary Music Initiative, the Anglican Musicians’ Mentoring Project, and Melodious Accord, a non-profit organization that promotes the work of composer Alice Parker. He was on the New Music Commissions Committee for the 2010 national convention of the American Guild of Organists.
Active as a leader at conferences and workshops, Roberts has made presentations in the Episcopal dioceses of Dallas, East Carolina, Los Angeles, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Southern Virginia, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Western New York.
William Bradly Roberts
William Bradley Roberts
