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MACK WILBERG (b. 1955) has been the music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir since 2008. He is a former Professor of Music at Brigham Young University and is active as a composer, arranger, guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States and abroad. His compositions and arrangements are performed and recorded by choral organizations throughout the world. In addition to the many compositions he has written for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, his works have also been performed by such artists as Renée Fleming, Frederica von Stade, Bryn Terfel, and the King’s Singers. Dr. Wilberg received his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California.

CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER (1818-1895) was an Anglo-Irish hymnodist and poet. “All Things Bright and Beautiful”, “There Is a Green Hill Far Away”, and the Christmas carol “Once in Royal David’s City” are three of her most well known hymn texts.

FOLLIOTT SANDFORD PIERPOINT (1835-1917) was an English hymnodist and poet. Educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, Pierpont was a classics schoolmaster and taught at Somersetshire College, spending most of his life in Bath and the south-west of England. His most famous hymn is “For the Beauty of the Earth” which he wrote in 1864, at the age of 29.