Staff

Kenneth Miller is the School of Theology instructor in church music and serves as organist and director of choirs for the School of Theology's Chapel of the Apostles. Before coming to Sewanee, he worked as associate organist-choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, South Carolina, and as instructor of organ at the University of South Carolina. He studied organ and church music at Lenoir-Rhyne University, where his principal teachers were Florence Jowers and Paul Weber, and the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, with Martin Jean and Thomas Murray. At Yale, he received the Charles Ives Prize for musicianship and the Aidan Kavanagh Achievement Prize for his thesis, which deals with the development of open score notation in 17th-century Germany. He maintains an active schedule as a choral accompanist, continuo player, and solo recitalist, specializing in the late-Romantic repertoire (particularly Max Reger and Franz Schmidt) and the large-scale cycles of JS Bach (most recently, several performances of The Art of Fugue).

Yuriria (Yuri) Rodríguez , T’23, is a postulant from the Diocese of Indianapolis, in the School of Theology’s master of divinity program, seeking ordination as a priest. She is a native Costa Rican singer, artist, and educator, who specializes in Latin American music and culture. For the past 20 years, Yuri has offered performances of Latin American music, music of Latin American women composers, and Latin American folklore. She has focused on genres like: Nueva Canción, Protest Song, Latin American folklore, Tango, Salsa, Ranchero song and Latin Jazz. She currently sings with the Schola Cantorum of the School of Theology at Sewanee, and with the Worship with Bravery Ensemble. In 2013 Rodriguez graduated from the masters in music program, also at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. As a member of El Taller there, she had the opportunity to share the stage with prominent guest musicians and Jacobs School of Music faculty, such as Grammy Award winners Pablo Ziegler, Pablo Aslan, Michael Spiro, Gonzalo Grau and Sylvia McNair. Reviews have praised Rodríguez as a singer “with a beautiful voice which recalls a force of nature” (Herald Times, Bloomington, Indian).