Special Edition Music at Noon

Trevor Hart in a Week of Stimulating Conversations on the Gospel & the Imagination. All events are FREE and open to the public

Special Edition Hour-Long Music at Noon
Trevor Hart in conversation with composer J. A. C. Redford & pianist George Boespflug.

Trevor Hart, CCCA Fall 2013 Visionary-in-Residence
Founder of the Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts, St. Andrews University, Scotland

"Trevor Hart is Rector of St Andrew's Episcopal Church in St Andrews, Scotland, and an Honorary Professor in the University of St Andrews. From 1995-August 2013 he was Professor of Divinity in the University, and founded the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in November 2000 with Jeremy Begbie, serving as its first Director from 2000-2013. He continues to participate in ITIA's research seminar and other activities and to supervise some PhD students within the Institute. Hart has just published Between the Image and the Word: Theological Engagements with Imagination, Language and Literature and is currently completing his three-volume “Poetics of Redemption,” to be published by Baylor University Press. The first volume, Making Good: Creation, Creativity and Artistry will be published in Spring 2013. Biola is pleased to welcome Dr. Hart to our campus for a stimulating week of conversation and instruction."

George Boespflug, Pianist, Director of Biola's Conservatory of Music

George Boespflug, piano, is Director of Biola’s Conservatory of Music, and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, holding a doctorate of musical arts in piano performance and literature. He has appeared as soloist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Boulder Chamber Players, Alfred University Orchestra and Houghton College Philharmonica. He has collaborated with members of various major orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic and the Chinese National Orchestra. He has appeared on several public radio broadcasts and recorded a compact disk of solo piano works, From Wesley Chapel.

J.A.C. Redford, Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator and Conductor

J.A.C. Redford is a composer, arranger, orchestrator and conductor of concert, chamber and choral music, film, television and theater scores, and music for recordings. Artists and ensembles that have performed his work include: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Joshua Bell, Liona Boyd, Cantus, Chicago Symphony, de Angelis Vocal Ensemble, Debussy Trio, Israel Philharmonic, Kansas City Chorale, Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Millennium Consort Singers, New York Philharmonic, Phoenix Chorale, St. Martin’s Chamber Choir, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Utah Chamber Artists and Utah Symphony. His music has been featured on programs at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Lincoln Center in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Redford has written the scores for more than three dozen feature films, TV movies or miniseries, including The Trip to Bountiful, One Night with the King, What the Deaf Man Heard, Mama Flora’s Family and Disney’s Oliver & Company, Newsies and The Mighty Ducks II and III. He has composed the music for nearly 500 episodes of series television, including multiple seasons of Coach and St. Elsewhere (for which he received two Emmy nominations).

Collaborating with other artists, Redford has orchestrated, arranged or conducted for Academy Award-winning composers, James Horner, Alan Menken, Randy Newman and Rachel Portman, as well as for Terence Blanchard, Danny Elfman, Mark Isham, Thomas Newman, Marc Shaiman, and Cirque du Soleil’s Benoit Jutras, on projects including The Little Mermaid, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Perfect Storm, WALL-E, Avatar, The Help, The Iron Lady, The Amazing Spider-Man and Skyfall. He orchestrated and conducted Adele’s Oscar-winning title song for Skyfall, wrote arrangements for Joshua Bell’s Voice of the Violin and At Home with Friends recordings and has written for and recorded with other Grammy Award-winning artists Steven Curtis Chapman, Bonnie Raitt and Sting.

He has produced, arranged, and conducted music for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and served as a consultant for the Sundance Film Institute, a teacher in the Artists-in-Schools program for the National Endowment for the Arts, a guest lecturer at USC and UCLA, and on the Music Branch Executive Committees for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

For more information please call 562-903-4892.

Co-sponsored by the Torrey Honors Institute and the Center for Christianity, Culture & the Arts