Annual Hymn Festival set for Feb. 8

Event Annual Hymn Festival
A Celebration of Choral & Organ Music and Hymns
led by David Cherwien
When Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
Where Trinity Lutheran Church
1340 Eleventh Street, Manhattan Beach, CA
(3 blks east of Sepulveda -1 blk south of Manhattan Beach Blvd.)
Admission Freewill donation

Hors d'oeuvre & dessert reception with the artist follows

For more information www.PalosVerdes.com/TLCmusic/Background

Renowned organist, composer, and choral conductor David Cherwien isthe Director of Music at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Minneapolis. In 2002, Dr. Cherwien was appointed Music Director for the acclaimed National Lutheran Choir, winner of Chorus America's 2007 Award for Choral Excellence. He completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ performance and the Master of Arts degree in theory and composition at the University of Minnesota. Following his undergraduate work he studied for two years at the Berlin Church Music School in Berlin, Germany. He has also studied organ with Christian Baude in Aix-en-Provence, France, and with Paul Manz, Heinrich Fleisher, and Earl Barr. In the European tradition of church organists going back to the time of Bach and before, he composes or improvises much of the music he plays in a worship service.