Music
Music in the Memorial Church is directed by Edward Elwyn Jones, the Gund University Organist and Choirmaster. The Harvard University Choir provides the music for weekly and daily services, as well as special concerts throughout the year. Home to two world-class instruments, the Fisk Organ Opus 139 and the Skinner Opus 793, the music department, in conjunction with the Harvard Organ Society, hosts an organ recital series with national, international, and celebrity organists, and serves as a place of learning for Harvard organ students. At the heart of university life, the Memorial Church also commissions many new choral and instrumental musical compositions to celebrate occasions in the life of the church and larger Harvard campus.
Music Department
Edward E. Jones
edward_jones@harvard.eduGund University Organist and Choirmaster
Curator of the University Organs
Edward Elwyn Jones is the Gund University Organist and Choirmaster in the Memorial Church. A native of Wales, Mr. Jones studied music at Cambridge University, where he was Organ Scholar of Emmanuel College. He moved to the United States in 1998, serving...
David von Behren
Assistant University Organist and Choirmaster
David von Behren earned his Master of Music degree at Yale University’s School of Music/Institute of Sacred Music, studying organ with Martin Jean and improvisation with Jeffrey Brillhart. He is also a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music where he...
Carson P. Cooman
carson_cooman@harvard.eduResearch Associate in Music and Composer in Residence
Carson Cooman is Research Associate in Music and Composer in Residence at the Memorial Church. As a composer, Cooman has produced a catalog of hundreds of works in many forms—from solo instrumental pieces to operas, and from orchestral works to hymn tunes...
Frank Kelley
Voice Instructor
Frank Kelley sings a wide variety of music throughout North America and Europe. He has performed many roles with the Odyssey Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, Florentine Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, and the San Francisco Opera Company, and...
