Course Staff
Music Director
Nick Quardokus
Organist
James Kealey
Chaplain
Reverend Rita Powell
Co-Manager
Matthew Brown
Co-Manager
Mark Ardrey-Graves
Registrar
Marilyn Neely
Treble Housemaster
George Fergus
Treble Housemaster
Jeannie Kienzel
Treble Housemaster
Brandon Straub
Treble Housemaster
Owen Reid
Adult Housemaster
Deke Polifka
Head Proctor
Pam Hair
Adult Proctor
Homer Ferguson, III
The 27th annual Royal School of Church Music in America Carolina Summer Choral Residency was held July 8 - 14, 2024 on the campus of Duke University. The Music Director was Nick Quardokus, Canon Organist and Director of Music at Grace Church Cathedral in Charleston, SC. We welcomed James Kealey, Interim Director of Music/Organist of Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester, NY as the organist. The chaplain for this year was Rev. Rita Powell, the Episcopal Chaplain at Harvard.
Music
- Gerre Hancock, Missa Resurrectionis (Rite I)
- Anthony Piccolo, O hear us, Lord (trebles only)
- Ned Rorem, Praise the Lord, O my soul
- Stephanie Martin, Ave verum corpus
- David Conte, An Irish Blessing
- Eleanor Daley, Come, renew us
- Hubert Parry, Blest pair of sirens (SATB version)
- Leo Sowerby, Evening Canticles in D Major
- Margaret Burk, Preces & Responses