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Creation and Cosmos according to Hildegard of Bingen: Art, Science, and Music
A visualized recreation of creation and cosmos from Hildegard's art, enhanced by excerpts from her compositions.
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| Creation and Cosmos according to Hildegard of Bingen: Art, Science, and Music Boonshoft Planetarium, Dayton | Boonshoft Planetarium, Dayton |
Margot Fassler
Producer of the Visualization, working with Visual Artists Christian Jara and Brian Wolff, and Presenter
Margot Fassler is the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy, Emerita, at the University of Notre Dame, and Tangeman Professor of Music History, Emerita, Yale University. She was Director of the Program in Sacred Music at the University of Notre Dame. Recent books include Cosmos, Liturgy and the Arts in the Twelfth Century: Hildegard’s Illuminated Scivias, University of Pennsylvania Press (2023); Music in the Medieval West and its accompanying Anthology (New York, 2014); (with Jeffery Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, and Susan Marti); Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425: Inscription and Illumination in the Choir Books of a North German Dominican Convent, 2 vols. (Munster, 2016); and Medieval Cantors and Their Craft (ed. with Katie Bugyis and AB Kraebel) York Medieval Press, 2017. In Fall, 2024, Fassler was the Bennett Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies and the Centre for Medieval Studies in Toronto.
Brother John Glasenapp
Special Guest
Br. John Glasenapp professed solemn vows as a monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in 2010. He is the founding director of the Saint Meinrad Institute for Sacred Music. He teaches courses that have included Chant of the Roman Church, Hildegard’s Musical Cosmos, and Catholicism and the Musical Avant-Garde. He earned his Doctorate in Musicology from Columbia University. He is a Fulbright Scholar. His article, “Nuns, Cistercian Chant and Observant Reform in the Southern Low Countries,” appeared in Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 900 – 1500: Debating Identities, Creating Communities in 2023. His research focuses on Cistercian chant, gender, musical authority and reform, manuscript studies, and networks of exchange between religious communities.
Krista Cornish Scott
Guest Artist
Canadian soprano and director Krista Cornish Scott earned her Masters of Music in Performance and Literature from the University of Western Ontario, where she studied with contemporary opera innovator John Hess and teachers Theodore and Irena Baerg. A past prize-winner at Canada’s national Eckhardt-Gramatté contemporary music competition, she continues to support and seek out new music as a singer, conductor, and as co-artistic director of the contemporary music ensemble Coro Volante. In 2020 she launched Heri et Hodie, an intimate women’s ensemble exploring medieval and modern music. Heri et Hodie has performed at the St. Peter in Chains Cathedral in Cincinnati. Current recording projects include a recording of Hildegard texts set by women composers.
Michelle Carner
Director, St. Hildegard Schola of Dayton
Michelle Carner is the Music Director and Director of the St. Romanus Choir at Emmanuel Catholic Church in Dayton. The St. Romanus Choir sings liturgical music from nearly every Christian century, and several of its members fill the ranks of the St. Hildegard Schola of Dayton. Previously, she served as Director of Music at St. John the Baptist in Tipp City (2001-2), Organist at Sacred Heart in New Carlisle (2014-15), and Organist and schola member at Holy Family (2015-2018), where she chanted the Traditional Latin Mass. She currently studies organ under Yun Kim and previously with David Crean. She accomplished all of these things while also serving as a wife and mom to her seven homeschooled children. Michelle earned her degree in Music Therapy from the University of Dayton.
Jerri Stanard
Director, K12 Gallery/Tejas
Jerri began K12 Gallery & TEJAS in 1993. She holds a Master’s in Arts and Science from the University of Dayton and a BFA from Wright State University. In 2008, Jerri won the honor of the Pamela Houk award from The Dayton Art Institute for her tenacity to further art education. In 2002, Stanard was recognized as one of the Dayton Daily News Top Ten Women of Dayton. In 2000, Jerri won the Ohio Arts Council’s Emerging Leader Award.
St. Hildegard of Bingen receiving her vision.