#  Music 

 



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 ![107th Carol Service](/sites/g/files/omnuum7126/files/thememorialchurch/files/161211carolservices7.jpg)

 

Music in the Memorial Church is directed by Edward Elwyn Jones, the Gund University Organist and Choirmaster. [The Harvard University Choir ](/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](/organs), 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

 ](/people/edward-e-jones) [edward\_jones@harvard.edu](mailto:edward_jones@harvard.edu)Gund 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... 

 

 

      ![Edward Jones](/sites/g/files/omnuum7126/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/thememorialchurch/files/ed_jones_220x220.jpg?itok=SXJnxgUr) 

 

 

 

   [### David von Behren 

 ](/people/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... 

 

 

      ![David von Behren](/sites/g/files/omnuum7126/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/thememorialchurch/files/190916davidvonbehren4.jpg?itok=d2Yxm6X0) 

 

 

 

   [### Carson P. Cooman

 ](/people/carson-p-cooman) [carson\_cooman@harvard.edu](mailto:carson_cooman@harvard.edu)Research 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... 

 

 

      ![Carson Cooman, Research Associate in Music and Composer in Residence](/sites/g/files/omnuum7126/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/thememorialchurch/files/170223carsoncooman3.jpg?itok=__xMOWiX) 

 

 

 

   [### Frank Kelley

 ](/people/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... 

 

 

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