Rebecca Groom te Velde has been appointed adjunct instructor of organ at the Wanda L. Bass School of Music, Oklahoma City University, effective August 2014.
Organist at First Presbyterian Church in Stillwater, Oklahoma, since 1991, she is also interim chancel choir director 2014–15. Te Velde is co-editor and contributor with David Blackwell for Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists, a new multi-volume anthology of hymn-based organ pieces by U.S. and U.K. composers. Volumes 1 and 2 were published by Oxford University Press in 2014; volumes 3 and 4 will be released early in 2015.
A commissioned composer for the 2016 AGO national convention in Houston, Texas, te Velde’s organ and choral compositions are published by OUP, Darcey Press, and Santa Barbara Music Publishing.
She holds the M.M. degree in organ literature and performance from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, where she studied organ with Hugh J. McLean and composition with Jack Behrens. Undergraduate organ, church music, and composition studies were with her father, Lester H. Groom, at Seattle Pacific University. Post-graduate organ studies were with Flor Peeters in Belgium, Michael Schneider at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Almut Rössler in Düsseldorf, Germany (on a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), and Gerald Frank at Oklahoma State University.
