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Neil Stipp is a music teacher, concert
organist, author, and award-winning
composer. He has served as organist at
various churches, primarily in the
California southland, for 40 continuous
years. As a composer he is still in the
early stage of his career, as some of his
works are now finally being performed
and published.
Neil received a doctorate in organ
performance in June 2003. The schools
he graduated from are UCLA (full
scholarship), USC, and Biola University.
Dr. Stipp recently won the ASCAPlus
award for the prestige value of the
catalog of his works. He teaches organ
at Whittier College and is the College
Organist, and is also employed by
Nogales High School (LaPuente, CA),
and is the organist at First Presbyterian
Church and Grace Lutheran Church both
in Covina, CA. He also teaches piano for
Sky Mountain Charter School and
Gorman Learning Center.
Most recently, Neil won the 2010
AGO/ECS publishing award in choral
composition for his work "May Your Life
Be Filled With Gladness." The lyrics are
by Rae E. Whitney. This work is
published by EC Schirmer, and was
premiered on 7/5/10 by the Heritage
Signature Chorale at the AGO convention
in Washington D.C. To see the score and
hear the work, click on here:
"May Your Life"
and click on "Listen" at the top left if you
have Adobe Reader 6 or better. Scores
can be ordered through www.ecspub.
com
An article about Neil and his career and
family appears in the Glendoran
Magazine, Jul/Aug 2009 issue.
Neil has performed organ concerts on
both the East and West Coasts, done solo
work in Scandinavia and Alaska, and
accompanied a choir on the stage of
Carnegie Hall in New York City.
"If you are a painter or a poet or a
musician or an actor—you carry within
you a prize of great worth. [If you do
not create], you must learn to love one of
the arts in a way that allows the power of
another’s creation to come alive within
you. Once you love an art enough that
you can be taken up in it, you are able to
experience an echo of the great creative
act that mysteriously has given life to us
all.”
— Kent Nerburn, in Letters to My Son
organist, author, and award-winning
composer. He has served as organist at
various churches, primarily in the
California southland, for 40 continuous
years. As a composer he is still in the
early stage of his career, as some of his
works are now finally being performed
and published.
Neil received a doctorate in organ
performance in June 2003. The schools
he graduated from are UCLA (full
scholarship), USC, and Biola University.
Dr. Stipp recently won the ASCAPlus
award for the prestige value of the
catalog of his works. He teaches organ
at Whittier College and is the College
Organist, and is also employed by
Nogales High School (LaPuente, CA),
and is the organist at First Presbyterian
Church and Grace Lutheran Church both
in Covina, CA. He also teaches piano for
Sky Mountain Charter School and
Gorman Learning Center.
Most recently, Neil won the 2010
AGO/ECS publishing award in choral
composition for his work "May Your Life
Be Filled With Gladness." The lyrics are
by Rae E. Whitney. This work is
published by EC Schirmer, and was
premiered on 7/5/10 by the Heritage
Signature Chorale at the AGO convention
in Washington D.C. To see the score and
hear the work, click on here:
"May Your Life"
and click on "Listen" at the top left if you
have Adobe Reader 6 or better. Scores
can be ordered through www.ecspub.
com
An article about Neil and his career and
family appears in the Glendoran
Magazine, Jul/Aug 2009 issue.
Neil has performed organ concerts on
both the East and West Coasts, done solo
work in Scandinavia and Alaska, and
accompanied a choir on the stage of
Carnegie Hall in New York City.
"If you are a painter or a poet or a
musician or an actor—you carry within
you a prize of great worth. [If you do
not create], you must learn to love one of
the arts in a way that allows the power of
another’s creation to come alive within
you. Once you love an art enough that
you can be taken up in it, you are able to
experience an echo of the great creative
act that mysteriously has given life to us
all.”
— Kent Nerburn, in Letters to My Son
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Artistry = The gift that gives the believer the
skill of creating artistic expressions that
produce a spiritual response of strength and
inspiration. -- ELCA
"The happiest people don't necessarily have
the best of everything; they just make the
best of everything they have." (Anonymous)
"Service is the gift that enables a believer to
work gladly behind the scenes in order that
God's work is fulfilled." (Unknown, probably
from a believer who worked gladly behind
the scenes.)
"It is better to lose an argument to a wise
person, than to win an argument in the face
of a fool." (Anonymous -- what a great quote!)
"It's not the critic who counts, not the man
who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or when the doer of deeds could have done
better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena; whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs and comes short again and
again; who know the great enthusiasms, the
great devotions and spends himself in a
worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the
end the triumph of high achievement; and who
at the worst if he fails, at least fails daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory or defeat." --- Theodore Roosevelt
skill of creating artistic expressions that
produce a spiritual response of strength and
inspiration. -- ELCA
"The happiest people don't necessarily have
the best of everything; they just make the
best of everything they have." (Anonymous)
"Service is the gift that enables a believer to
work gladly behind the scenes in order that
God's work is fulfilled." (Unknown, probably
from a believer who worked gladly behind
the scenes.)
"It is better to lose an argument to a wise
person, than to win an argument in the face
of a fool." (Anonymous -- what a great quote!)
"It's not the critic who counts, not the man
who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or when the doer of deeds could have done
better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena; whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs and comes short again and
again; who know the great enthusiasms, the
great devotions and spends himself in a
worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the
end the triumph of high achievement; and who
at the worst if he fails, at least fails daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory or defeat." --- Theodore Roosevelt
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