Kent Tritle Named Director of Music at Cathedral of St. John the Divine

NEW YORK — The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine has
announced the appointment of Kent Tritle, one of America’s leading
choral conductors and organ virtuosos (he is organist of the New
York Philharmonic), as its next Director of Cathedral Music and
Organist, to begin his tenure on September 1. He succeeds former
director Bruce Neswick, who will join the faculty of the Indiana
University Jacobs School of Music as associate professor of music
(organ).

Tritle has been Director of Music Ministries at St. Ignatius
Loyola Church in Manhattan since 1989, where he oversaw a program
of more than 400 services annually, led the church’s professional
choir, and developed a 45-voice volunteer parish choir. With
graduate and undergraduate degrees from The Juilliard School in
organ performance and choral conducting, Tritle also directs the
Oratorio Society of New York and Musica Sacra, and is Director of
Choral Activities at the Manhattan School of Music and a member of
the graduate faculty of The Juilliard School – capacities in which
he will continue.

“It is with great joy that I accept the position of Director of
Cathedral Music at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine,” said
Tritle. “I have always loved the Cathedral; its place, its mission,
and its musical legacy, and I am thrilled to embark with the
Cathedral staff on an adventure to take the music program to even
greater heights. It is with tremendous gratitude and great emotion
that I leave the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola after 22 amazing and
exhilarating years as Director of Music Ministries. I will always
be grateful to the parishioners and staff, colleagues and friends
with whom I was able to work and build that church’s music
program.”