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The Rev’d Fr. James Moore Guill, SSC, has been Rector of St. Andrew’s Parish since August 1, 1999. He was previously the Associate Rector of St. Andrew’s Church in Collierville, TN, as well as Assisting Deacon at Church of the Annunciation in Cordova, TN.
Father Guill was born in Memphis, graduated from Union City High School, Union City, Tennessee, and received his BA in English and philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 1977. He formerly practiced law in Cody, Wyoming, and Memphis, Tennessee, having received his JD degree from Emory University in Atlanta in 1980. He earned his Master of Divinity degree cum laude in 1996 at Nashotah House Seminary in Nashotah, Wisconsin.
Fr. Guill is a member of the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC), Forward in Faith/North America, and the Anglican Communion Network.
Fr. Guill and his wife Patricia have been married since May 3, 1980. They have three children: Stirling, Caitlin and Patrick. |
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| Carl Smith is presently Senior Lecturer in Music Theory and Composition, Organ and Harpsichord at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. Prior to moving to Nashville in 1998, he lived for many years in St. Louis, where he was Organist and Choirmaster at Trinity Presbyterian Church and a faculty member in the Music Department at Washington University. He holds a B.Mus. (Magna cum Laude) from the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music and a M.Mus. from Washington University in St. Louis. He has also been Organist and Choirmaster at St. Andrew's Parish in Nashville since September 2002. His wife Carol has been Director of the Suzuki Program at the Blair School of Music since 1997.
While still an undergraduate, he worked with the eminent Austrian organist and composer Anton Heiller and later with harpsichordist and conductor Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam. His interest in early keyboard and ensemble music led inevitably to the study of the sacred choral literature of the Renaissance and early baroque. He is a frequent visitor to Italy where he performs regularly as organist and harpsichordist.
His passionate interest in the art of the Italian Renaissance and in poetry have led to a number of composition projects including a cantata for men's chorus and chamber orchestra whose text (in his own English translation) consists a group of poems by Michelangelo, a poet whose verse he has studied extensively. An unaccompanied Requiem to poems by Czeslaw Milosz has had numerous performances. In addition to biblical and liturgical texts, he has composed solo and choral settings of poems by Wyatt, Herrick, Herbert, Belloc, Nemerov, and Olds. In 1999 his motet "God of Creation" (text by Ambrose of Milan) was sung for Pope John Paul II. In March of 2004, his masque "Fire and Ice: Michelangelo the Writer" was premiered at Blair. It is a work for five singers, narrator, cello, and harpsichord, and consists primarily of musical settings of the artist's letters and poems. In October 2006, Naxos records issued his recording of "Tudor Organ Music", the first CD devoted entirely to late Renaissance organ music from England, still some of the most complex counterpoint in the literature. Most of the pieces on the CD had never been recorded before.
As a member of The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, Smith is continually in search of new ways to communicate the spiritual aspect of the arts, in an era dominated intellectually by science and culturally (he feels) by the sensational and the ephemeral. |
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