Chapter Officers 2024-2025
Edward B. Hurd
Dean
Edward Hurd holds a bachelor of music education degree from Central Washington University, Ellensburg, where he spent four years as organist and assistant music director at First Presbyterian Church. While teaching at East Valley High School in Spokane Valley, he served as director of music ministries for Opportunity Presbyterian Church. He was full-time director of music ministries (organist/choirmaster) for First Presbyterian Church in Mesa, Ariz. while completing his graduate studies in choral conducting at Arizona State University. For ten years, he served as associate director of music and organist for All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Phoenix. He has conducted choral ensembles twice at the St. Moritz Festival (Switzerland), and numerous tours and festivals throughout England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Russia. Hurd’s principal conducting teachers include the late B. Fred Hammack, G. Gordon Leavitt, and Douglas McEwen.
While in Nebraska, Hurd served as director of traditional worship (organist/ choirmaster) for the 2,500-member congregation of Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, La Vista, for nine years. He was artistic director for the 200-voice community chorus, Voices of Omaha, for eight years. He was performance rentals director for Omaha Performing Arts which operates the Orpheum Theater and renowned Holland Performing Arts Center, joining the organization as general manager in 2003.
Since returning to Spokane, Hurd was organist/bellmaster for Opportunity Presbyterian Church in Spokane Valley before joining the staff of Central Lutheran Church. He is a busy substitute music teacher for Spokane Public Schools and maintains a private piano and voice teaching studio. Hurd is a frequent adjudicator for area solo/ensemble contests.
Hurd is a member of the National Association for Music Education and American Choral Directors Association.
Hurd serves the chapter in areas: Communications/Marketing
Taylor Giese
Sub-Dean
Taylor Giese is the music director and organist for St. Francis Xavier Parish, Spokane; organist for Zion Lutheran Church, Millwood; and organist for Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, Spokane. Giese is an adherent of the 19th century French romantic school, and especially admires the school’s integration of chant and organ.
Giese serves the chapter in areas: Communications/Marketing
Nisha Coulter
Secretary
Nisha Coulter is presently organist at All Saints Lutheran Church. She began organ playing in high school when her church sponsored lessons by Lewis and Clark College’s professor. At the University of Oregon, she studied with Elwin Myrick and John Hamilton. She chose to keep music as an avocation. With a degree in French and minors in English and history, her teaching career encompassed junior and senior high school students. Coulter has served in various denominations including Disciples of Christ, Congregational, Lutheran, Methodist, and Episcopal as organist and oft-times choir director. Before Spokane, she lived in St. Helens, Eugene, and Roseburg, Oregon and later in the San Francisco Bay and the Los Angeles areas. She has two daughters and four grandchildren.
Coulter serves the chapter in areas: Program
Mark Haberman
Treasurer
Mark Haberman, a Minnesota native, has resided in Kootenai County for 30 years, relocating from Iowa, after nearly 20 years there. He holds a bachelor of music education degree from Morningside University in Sioux City, Iowa, and a master of music degree in organ performance from the University of Minnesota. Theological studies were completed at Perkins School of Theology (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. Rev. Haberman is an ordained United Methodist deacon.
Rev. Haberman has been a church musician for nearly 50 years. He served on the music and program staff of Community United Methodist Church in Coeur d’Alene for 20 years. This was preceded by his service for 15 years on the music and program staff of Grace United Methodist Church in Sioux City, Iowa. He currently serves as organist at Coeur d’Alene’s Trinity Lutheran Church.
His 22-year social services career included 16 years at Community Action Partnership in Coeur d’Alene. In May 2022, Rev. Haberman retired from Aging & Long Term Care of Eastern Washington in Spokane, where he served as planning and resource director.
Haberman serves the chapter in areas: Finance/Development, Program, Nominating
Henry Bauer, DMA
Member at Large
Henry Bauer, DMA, is the director of music at The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes in Spokane, Wash., where he conducts the Schola Cantorum, Cathedral Choir, and Diocesan Choir as well as being artistic director of the Sacred Music Series. He has served as a director of music and liturgy in parishes in the Archdiocese of Washington. He holds a doctorate in sacred music and choral conducting along with masters in liturgical music and organ from The Catholic University of America; his doctoral dissertation is on choral literature for the liturgical year. Outside of his professional music ministry career, Dr. Bauer has held several leadership positions for National Association of Pastoral Musicians throughout the years.
Dr. Bauer is the current chair of the Director of Music Ministries (DMM) Forum, was a member of the board of the Director of Music Ministries Division, and chair of the Partner Certification Review Committee for Ecclesial Lay Ministry. He continues to coordinate the Choral Anthem Project and leads reading sessions on choral music. He has presented workshops for cantors and organists, lectures on the role of music and musicians in the liturgy, and choral rehearsal techniques. He has served as a Core Committee member for two national conventions and been the chapter director and treasurer for the Washington DC chapter. He has led several choir tours to Europe. When not doing pastoral work, Dr. Bauer enjoys traveling and doing home renovations.
Dr. Bauer serves the chapter in areas: Program, Professional Concerns
Marietta Hardy
Member at Large
Marietta Hardy earned her Bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in Organ Pedagogy. She then taught group organ classes for BYU and has been teaching privately ever since. She is a nationally certified teacher of music in piano and organ through the Music Teachers National Association and has served as President of the local chapter, and is currently serving as treasurer of the Idaho Music Teachers Association. She served as the accompanist for the Northwest Sacred Music Chorale 2001-2016. She also worked for the late Ron Pearson at the Organ Loft and Northwest Organ Service, selling and demonstrating organs. Currently she is an adjunct piano instructor and resident accompanist at North Idaho College as well as the collaborative artist for their Cardinal Chorale and Chamber Choir. She has a thriving studio in Post Falls where she teaches organ, piano, and voice lessons. She has conducted several church choirs and has been the organist for her congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for many years.
Hardy serves the chapter in areas: Membership
Scott Rednour
Member at Large
Scott Rednour earned his master’s degree from Manhattan School of Music in Piano Performance. Rednour has appeared in recital accompanying artists such as William Warfield, Hilda Harris, and tenor Robert White; cellist Wolfgang Nüßlein and violinist Bela Horvath. His opera credits include American Opera Projects, Skylight Music Theater, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Spokane Symphony, and Inland Northwest Opera. During his 25 years in New York City, he taught at Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School.
Currently, Rednour sits on the piano faculty at Eastern Washington University. He is a board member for MusicFest Northwest. He serves as organist for Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist.
Rednour serves the chapter in areas: Educational Outreach
Joseph Schubert, PhD
Member at Large
Joseph Schubert, PhD, retired from teaching in 2020, after thirty-six years of teaching choral music in public schools at the junior high, high school, and university levels. From 2009 through 2023 Dr. Schubert also taught music theory, choral literature, and academic research and writing in the “Three-Summer Master of Music in Choral Conducting” program at California State University, Los Angeles. He has been a church organist since he was eighteen years old; he is currently serving as organist at St. Augustine Catholic Church, Spokane. Dr. Schubert’s dissertation dealt with twentieth-century French organist Jean-Jacques Grünenwald, providing an extensive biography and a comprehensive analysis of Grünenwald’s solo organ works in the context of the twentieth-century French organ school.
Dr. Schubert serves the chapter in areas: Program
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