Lights From the East Pray for Us
J. Michael Thompson of Pittsburgh—known for choral and liturgical work as an author, editor, and composer—founded the Schola Cantorum of St. Peter the Apostle and is its artistic director. Thompson—who earned a master’s degree in church music from Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois— also has served as professor of ecclesiastical chant at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Pittsburgh and was the cantor/ director of music at the Byzantine Catholic Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Munhall, Pennsylvania.