Kevin Vogt, founding director of the Saint Cecilia Schola Cantorum, the music
ministry of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha and its Mother Church,
Saint Cecilia Cathedral, has served as music director and organist of Saint Cecilia
Cathedral since 1998. He previously held a similar appointment at the
Cathedral of Saint Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota, and has served parish and
university churches in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Kansas, and Missouri. He
recently was as a visiting lecturer in church music at the Liturgical Institute at the
University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois.
     

     Kevin holds degrees in organ and church music from St. Olaf College and the
University of Notre Dame, and is pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at
the University of Kansas. His principal teachers have been John Ferguson, Craig
Cramer, David Boe and James Higdon.
     

     Over the past five years, several projects have developed under his leadership,
including the commissioning, designing, building and installation of the new
cathedral organ by organ builder Martin Pasi, the founding of the Saint Cecilia
Schola Cantorum as an innovative institute for formation in sacred music, the
convening of Roman Catholic choir schools in the United States and Canada into
the North American Schola Cantorum Network, and several collaborative
programs with area educational institutions. In January of 2005, the Saint Cecilia
Schola Cantorum will host the annual Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral
Musicians. Kevin has published liturgical music with GIA Publications, Inc. and
MorningStar Music Publishers, and articles in professional journals as well as the
recent German and English editions of the encyclopedia Religion in Geschichte
und Gegenwart.
     

 

 

    

    

Marie Rubis Bauer  is Director of Music - Cathedral Organist at Saint Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska USA.  She joined the staff of the Schola Cantorum first as Cathedral Organist in 2003 at the inauguration of the Martin Pasi, Op. 14 dual temperament (meantone and well-tempered) organ.  Her responsibilities include oversight of the Cathedral’s choirs instrumentalists, and further forming the musical liturgical life of the Cathedral.  

 

She holds degrees in organ from Augustana College (Bachelors) and the University of Kansas (Masters, Doctorate). Rubis Bauer has performed recitals on significant instruments and inaugural series throughout the United States, including the Paul Fritts organ at Princeton Theological Seminary, the Hellmuth Wolff organ at the Bales Recital Hall at the University of Kansas, the C.B. Fisk  organ at Pittsburg State University, and the Paul Fritts organ at the University of Notre Dame.  She has regularly performed for national conventions and conferences of the American Guild of Organists, the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, and the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.  She has performed as organ recitalist in Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and Switzerland, and is frequently a presenter at workshops at regional and national conventions of organ and church music organizations.   In November, 2003, she represented the United States by presenting a paper at the International Congress on Organ and the Liturgy at the Shrine of Fatima, Portugal. Beginning in April 2007, she and her husband, Michael Bauer, are performing the complete Organ Works of Dietrich Buxtehude at Martin Pasi, Op. 14 at Saint Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska and at the Hellmuth Wolff organ at the Bales Organ Recital Hall at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.  Performances within the past year have included the University of Notre Dame, The American Guild of Organists National Convention in Chicago, The Lincoln (Neb) Organ Showcase Series, the Benedictine Abbey of Atchison, Kansas, and the University of Kansas.  She currently serves on the board of directors of the Midwest Early Keyboard Society.

 

She has published numerous articles in the area of music and worship in several journals and is a contributing author along with her husband Michael Bauer, to the book Leading the People’s Song (Augsburg Fortress Press). Together they have released a recording of organ music by Petr Eben on the Calcante label. Her choral compositions are published through Hinshaw Music and Morning Star Music. She is a contributing author to the book Duruflé: The Last Impressionist (Seabury Press, 2002).  As organist, conductor, harpsichordist and producer, she is featured on five compact disc recordings.  Rubis Bauer resides in Omaha, Nebraska.

 

 

Stacie Lightner,  Associate Music Director is a native of Garden City, Kansas. Ms. Lightner began piano lessons at age 5.  After earning a bachelor of music degree in organ performance from the University of Kansas, Ms. Lightner spent one year as a Fulbright Scholar studying organ at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany.  She then returned to KU where she earned a master of music degree in church music and a bachelor’s degree in religious studies.  Ms. Lightner came to St. Cecilia’s in September of 2006.  She is also currently in the final stages of earning her D.Mus in Organ Performance from McGill University in Montreal

Joan M. Koneck-Wilcox, Program Administrator for the Schola Cantorum, organizes faculty and programs around “Formation for Life-Long Praise of God.”

A critical component to any church music ministry is the fostering of Christian faith understood from a musical perspective.  Joan brings 22 years of teaching theology and character skills in the Archdiocese of Omaha Catholic schools as well as directing retreats and leading Catholic Social Teaching workshops.  Joan and her husband, Bob, made sure all six of their children learned to play piano and all sang in choirs for the Schola Cantorum.

BA, Theology, BA, French, MA, Masters in Christian Spirituality, Creighton University