26^th Annual Sacred Choral Reading Clinic for Senior Church Choir Directors
Featuring JOHN PURIFOY

Ottawa - August 21^st, 2010

When: Saturday, August 21, 2010, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Where: Ottawa Mennonite Church - 1830 Kilborn Ave --Venue Change for 2010!--

• REGISTRATION: May 1st through August 6th
• Registration deadline extended to August 6, 2010.
  Don't miss out on this opportunity - call to register today!
• Call: 800-665-8995
• Registration Fee: $45.00 payable by cheque or credit card ($55 if bringing a guest)
• Includes refreshments and one music package per church
• Limit of 1 registration per church please.
• All fees (cheques / cards) will be processed 3-5 business days before the event.
• Cancellations received after August 9th are NON-REFUNDABLE, music packages will be mailed out after the event to those unable to attend
• One music package per church (loan packages for guests are returned at end of session)
• Refreshments provided
• Receipts are provided at the reading sessions with music packages

About John Purifoy

By popular demand, we are featuring John Purifoy as our special guest for this summer's reading session. Our customers have asked for John repeatedly over the years as a clinician and we are delighted to welcome him to Ottawa this summer.

His anthems and cantatas are standards here at Canadian Choral Centre Inc. The Blessing, Soli Deo Gloria, Born a Savior, Born a King, Out of the Shadows, and Touched by a King are just a few of John's gifts to church music that so many of you have come to love and sing again and again.

John Purifoy received his B.M. at The University of Arkansas and completed his graduate study at The University of Texas

He is an ASCAP composer and arranger with numerous published choral cantatas, anthems and keyboard collections. His compositions have been recorded by the Chicago Master Chorale, National Christian Choir, Anita Kerr Singers, Carol Lawrence, Joni Eareckson and other artists. His stage musical Lambarene, based on the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, received workshop productions at the state theatre of New Jersey and the North Shore Musical Theater near Boston.

The patriotic oratorio We Hold These Truths for chorus and orchestra, narrated by Alex Haley, received the 1989 Freedoms Foundation Award for Musical Programs.

Mr. Purifoy served as editor and director of music publishing for Word, Inc. from 1975-1982 and is a five-time recipient of the ASCAP Standard Award.

Currently Mr. Purifoy is a freelance composer, arranger, and producer. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with his wife, Vicki, and they have two grown sons, Michael and Drew and a beautiful daughter-in-law, Lindsey.