The
Bach Festival of Central Florida Music
Director
Dr.
Gabriel Statom received the Bachelor of Music Education
degree with voice and piano emphasis from The University of
Mississippi and the Master of Music degree in Choral
Conducting with organ as the principal instrument from
Florida State University. Gabe completed the Doctor of
Worship Studies degree from the Institute for Worship
Studies, affiliated with Wheaton College and Northern
Theological Seminary, both in Chicago, Illinois. Gabe has
also studied at Princeton University, Westminster Choir
College and the University of Oregon. Dr.
Statom is Director of Music at Second Presbyterian Church
in Memphis, Tennessee For almost nine years Gabe served as
Director of Music and Organist at First Presbyterian Church
of Lake Wales, FL where he was also Artistic Director of
the Lake Wales Chorale. He is Musical Director for the Bach
Festival of Central Florida. Under his direction, the FPC
Chancel Choir was selected to perform at the 2002 Florida
Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association Fall
Conference in Orlando, Florida. This choir toured Scotland
and England in 2003. Performances were in St. Giles
Cathedral, Edinburgh, Canterbury Cathedral and St. Bart’s
Church in London. In 2005, the Lake Wales Chorale toured
and presented concerts in Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, and
Munich and in 2007 toured Italy, with mass services
presented in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, St.
Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, and concerts in Florence,
Assisi and Rome. He has
conducted extensively throughout the US including
performances at the Spoleto Festival, the Oregon Bach
Festival, and Carnegie Hall, performing with orchestras
such as the Memphis Symphony, the New England Symphonic
Ensemble and the Mississippi Symphony. He has studied
conducting with Robert Shaw, André Thomas, Helmuth Rilling,
Jerry Jordan, John Rutter and David Willcocks. Gabe has
been on the staff of the Berkshire Choral Festival in 2002
and 2003, serving at the Sheffield, Massachusetts and
Salzburg, Austria Festivals and at the Canterbury, England
festival in 2006. Dr. Statom is an active clinician,
adjudicator and teacher. Dr.
Statom has served as chairman of the Committee on Worship
for the General Synod of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church, was Vice-President of the Florida
Chapter of Choristers Guild and is Past-President of the
Polk Arts Alliance.
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2006 Rick Garrity
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