Resume: Music

Weldon Whipple
Freelance Composer, Organist, Musicologist, Music Librarian
P.O. Box 1042, Orem, UT 84059-1042
Phone: 801.226.3931  E-mail: weldon@whipple.org

Publications

Compositions

• Award-Winning Preludes on Hymn Tunes for Organ (Orem, UT: Wellspring Music, 1994; available individually from WardOrganist.com).
• Carol of the Little Donkey, for chorus SATB (Minneapolis, MN: Art Masters Studios, 1996).
• Prelude on "Infant Holy, Infant Lowly" (Zlobie), published in The Sacred Organ Journal (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz, Nov/Dec 2005)
• Prelude on "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (St. Louis), published in The Organist's Library, v. 42. (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz, Nov/Dec 2006)
• Prelude on "It Came upon the Midnight Clear" (Carol), published in The Organist (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz, Nov/Dec 2006)
• Prelude on "Once in Royal David's City" (Irby), published in The Organ Portfolio, v. 71, no. 2, p. 67-69. (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz, Nov/Dec 2007)

Articles

• "Beethoven's Organ Trios: Authentic or Spurious?" Diapason 68 (July 1977) 1, 8-10.
• "The L.D.S. Hymnal, Views on Foreign Editions: The Japanese Hymnal." Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 10 (Spring 1975/76) 53-54.

Awards and Prizes

• 1968: First place, Ricks College hymn writing contest: "O Jesus, Crowned with Glory."
• 1973: de Jong Organ Award, Department of Music, Brigham Young University
• Church Music Contest, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
  • 1986: Top entry, instrumental category: "Prelude on 'Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee'"
  • 1987: 1st place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: "Prelude on 'Away in a Manger'"
  • 1988: 2nd place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: "Prelude on 'Lead, Kindly Light'"
  • 1989: 2nd place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: "Prelude on 'Did You Think to Pray?'"
  • 1990: 1st place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: "Prelude on 'Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning'"
  • 1991: 2nd place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: "Prelude and Canon on 'God Loved Us, So He Sent His Son'"
  • 1992: 1st place, instrumental compositions or arrangements division: "Prelude on 'How Gentle God's Commands'"; honorable mention, anthem/hymn arrangement division: "Come unto Me"
  • 1993: Award of Merit, instrumental division: "Prelude on 'A Poor Wayfaring Man'"
  • 1994: Special Recognition: "Prelude on 'While of These Emblems We Partake'"

Employment and Other Musical Activities

• 1973-76: Graduate (teaching) assistantships in music theory and comprehensive musicianship, organ pedagogy, musicology, and library acquisitions (music), Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
• 1974: Music engraver (part-time), Sonos Music Resources, Orem, UT
• 1976-81: Music Cataloger, University Libraries, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 1978-83: Suzuki piano teacher (private studio), Lincoln, NE. Faculty member at semi-annual Suzuki Piano Workshops sponsored by the School of Music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 1994-present: President, Wellspring Music, Orem, UT
• 1996-2003: Member, General Music Committee, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Music Education

• Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (B.A. music theory, 1973; M.A., musicology, organ, 1976)
• Master's Thesis: Beethoven's Organ Works (1976)
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (M.S., library science, 1977)