Choristers Guild

Choristers Guild is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization based in Dallas, Texas.https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/detailsPage?ein=951921157&name=Choristers%20Guild&city=Dallas&state=TX&countryAbbr=United%20States&type=pub78Search This ecumenical organization is a boutique publisher of choral, handbell, and instrumental music for churches, schools, and community ensembles, with customers mostly in the United States, but also around the world. It publishes, prints, and ships sacred and school choral music, workbooks, and handbell and instrumental music from hundreds of composers, and is an active guild which provides educational resources for it members comprising of choral conductors, handbell ensembles, educators, community organizations, and church musicians.
Choristers Guild’s mission statement is “Enabling Leaders to Nurture the Musical and Spiritual Growth of Children, Youth, and Adults” with the goal to develop the artistic, creative, and spiritual nature of people of all ages. The organization's events are held to inspire and empower musicians via in-person and online events for education and training. The signature program of the guild is the Choristers Guild Institute, a three-year training program for leaders of children and youth choirs, which began in 2009.
==Notable Members, Composers, and Officers, Past and Present==
Jann Aldredge-Clanton, composer 
Anton Armstrong, conductor 
Lynn Shaw Bailey, composer 
Michael Bedford, composer 
Roberta Bitgood, composer 
Mark Burrows, composer 
Kris Crunk, composer 
Taylor Davis, composer 
Sandra J. Eithun, composer 
Laura Farnell, composer 
Dan Forrest, composer 
Carolyn Gillette, composer 
Michael Helman, composer 
Hal Hopson, composer 
Bill Ingram, composer 
Helen Kemp, composer 
Robert Leaf, composer https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/robert-leaf/isbn/978-613-3-36380-9 
Mary Lynn Lightfoot, composer 
Jody W. Lindh, composer 
Austin C. Lovelace, composer 
Trevor Manor, composer 
Mark A. Miller, composer 
Cathy Moklebust, composer 
Anna Laura Page, composer 
Sue Ellen Page, composer 
Mark Patterson, composer 
Alice Parker, composerhttps://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=28339&context=newsreleases 
Allen Pote, composer 
Carl Schalk, composer 
K. Lee Scott, composer 
Natalie Sleeth, composer 
Terry D. Taylor, composer 
André J. Thomas, composer 
Martha Lynn Thompson, composer 
Margaret R. Tucker, composer 
H. Dean Wagner, composer 
Dale Wood (composer) 
Brian Wren, composer 
Cynthia Wright, composer 
Terry W. York, composer 
Laurie Zelman, composerhttps://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=theology_music_etds 
==2022 Board Members==
President: John Sutton 
Director: Tim Sharp 
Immediate Past President: Stephanie McIlwain Miller 
President-Elect: Todd Arant 
Secretary-Treasurer: Andy Masetti 
Officers: Sandra Rosales, Ruth Szucs, and Elizabeth Shepley 
Executive Director: Dawn Jantsch 
Past Executive Directors 	Years Served
Dawn Jantsch 	2017–present
Jim Rindelaub 	2004–2017
C. Michael Hawn (interim) 	2002–2003
James Steel 	2000–2002
George Eison 	1999
Patty Evans 	1987–1998
John T. Burke 	1978–1986
Cecil Lapo 	1972–1978
John S. C. Kemp 	1968–1972
F. Lee Whittlesey 	1963–1967
A. Leslie Jacobs 	1960–1963
Ruth Krehbiel Jacobs, founder	1949–1960
Category:Music retailers of the United States
Category:Companies based in Dallas
Category:Retail companies established in 1949
Category:1949 establishments in California
Category:Book publishing companies based in Texas