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- Planned Sacred Art Programs for 2009:
10/16/09 - Chant Express Weekend
Dr. William Tortolano is former College Organist and Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Saint Michael's College in Vermont. A forty-seven year faculty member at the college, he leads a busy "non-retirement" life as educator, concert organist, church musician, editor, author and director of Gregorian Chant workshops.
He has a lifetime interest in the chant; studies and research at St. Pierre de Solesmes Benedictine Monastery in France led to his translation of Dom Cardine's book, Beginning Studies in Gregorian Chant. He has also written the widely popular A Gregorian Chant Handbook. Dr. Tortolano directs the Gregorian Chant Workshop at the St. Michael Institute of Sacred Art at Mystic, Connecticut.
Dr. Tortolano is a graduate of Boston University, the New England Conservatory of Music and earned his Licentiate and Doctorate at the University of Montreal. Dr. Tortolano was a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center; held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Medieval Studies at Yale University; Visiting Fellow at King's and Trinity Colleges at Cambridge University, England; and has given organ concerts in the United States, Canada, Italy, Holland, Scotland and France, including Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Dr. Tortolano has over forty scholarly editions published by GIA Publications, and is also published by World Library Publications and Paraclete Press. He is author of books on choral music and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Anglo-Black Composer, 1875-1912. He was president of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences and is President Emeritus of the Vermont Musicians' Association (Local 351), American Federation of Musicians, AFL/CIO.