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With soaring melodies, evocative texts, mystical harmonies, and voices of nature, Kathy Wonson Eddy's music reveals the transcendent in everyday life.

"For me, composition is a spiritual practice. My music springs from the awe I feel at the beauty of Vermont where I live and the ocean’s tidal places where I grew up. Writing music flows from my desire to respond to the miraculous gifts of love and meaning. It is a way for me to say thank you to God, to remind myself and others to pay attention, to live mindfully and gratefully in this one life we have been given. Sometimes my music emerges from sorrow—pieces which memorialize those I have loved who have died. In these challenging times in which we live, my music is increasingly a response to social injustice. My compositions call us to work for equality and peace, to celebrate diversity, and to respond to the urgent cry of Mother Earth to care for her waterways, seas, creatures, plants, and dome of sky. I am inspired by ancient mystical texts: I stand on the shoulders of centuries of poets and holy ones whose words wake us up. I also enjoy working with contemporary lyricists, especially my husband Robert Merrill Eddy."

Kathy Wonson Eddy majored in music at Middlebury College, earned an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School, and later studied choral composition with Sir David Lumsden at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, Kathy served as pastor and composer-in-residence at Bethany Church UCC, Randolph, Vermont from 1976-2012. Throughout her years of pastoral ministry, and now as a full- time composer, music composition has always been a call and a joy. This also extends to conducting choral groups and piano accompaniment of solo singers and instrumentalists in concerts and recordings of her work. Kathy’s pieces have been performed widely in the US, Europe, and South America by groups as diverse as Counterpoint (Vermont’s professional choir), the Hilliard Ensemble, the Princeton University Chapel Choir, folk musicians in Ecuador, Celtic musicians, community choruses, a high school jazz band and chorus, and church choirs and congregations of many denominations. Kathy and her husband Robert Eddy co-created the book, Writing with Light: Meditations for Caregivers in Word and Image, with a foreword by Henri Nouwen. With Maren Tirabassi, she co-authored two books of worship resources— Gifts of Many Cultures and Gifts in Open Hands .

Kathy Wonson Eddy

With soaring melodies, evocative texts, mystical harmonies, and voices of nature, Kathy Wonson Eddy's music reveals the transcendent in everyday life.

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