Music Staff
Dale Adelmann, PhD, FRSCM
Canon for Music
Dale Adelmann was named Canon for Music at the Cathedral of St. Philip in 2009, having served previously as music director of All Saints', Beverly Hills; St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo; and the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus. Through guest conducting in many parts of the USA – often under the auspices of the Royal School of Church Music – compact disc recordings for Gothic Records and Pro Organo (Zarex), and domestic and international choir tours, Dr. Adelmann has established a broad reputation for his choral work with adults and children alike.
Dr. Adelmann was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music during a ceremony at Salisbury Cathedral in September 2018. He is a longtime member of the external advisory board of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University, and he served on the board of the Ann Stookey Fund for New Music throughout its existence. He is a past president of the Association of Anglican Musicians (AAM), served terms both as editor and consulting editor of the Journal of AAM, and chaired the Internship Committee to found the AAM Gerre Hancock Fellowship. He has guest conducted the Atlanta Symphony Brass, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and regularly collaborates with chamber orchestras, conducting his choirs in concert both with modern instruments and with baroque ensembles, which have included NYS Baroque, Musica Angelica Baroque, and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra. As a presenter he has spoken at national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, and he has twice conducted the Sewanee Church Music Conference. His choral arrangements are published by Paraclete Press and Oregon Catholic Press. His arrangements of Spirituals are featured on more than a dozen professional recordings, and "Swing low, sweet chariot" was sung during a live broadcast of Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion on National Public Radio. He has conducted the première performances of choral works by Sir David Willcocks, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Craig Phillips, Gerald Near, Bruce Neswick, Roland Martin, and Bennett Zon.
Dr. Adelmann was the first North American to sing in the renowned Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, England, then under the direction of George Guest, where he gained truly extraordinary exposure to the historic canon of sacred choral music in England, singing seven choral services every week during university term for three years. His PhD dissertation at the University of Cambridge was subsequently published in book form as The Contribution of Cambridge Ecclesiologists to the Revival of Anglican Choral Worship 1839-62, which was hailed by critics in the scholarly and in the international church presses as "essential reading" for Anglican Church musicians and Church historians alike. It has recently been reissued by Routledge Revivals. While at Cambridge, Dale served as musical director of the Gentlemen of St John's, the semi-professional male choral ensemble comprised of the choral scholars in the St. John's College Choir, conducting tours of Sweden, Northern Ireland, Wales, and the USA. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in music from the University of Michigan and Yale University, respectively, and studied for a year at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany.
An interview with Dale appeared in Atlanta's Reporter newspapers on March 25, 2010: Cathedral's new canon found beauty in organ music at age 13.
Chase Loomer
Organist and Associate Choirmaster
Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, Chase comes to the Cathedral of St. Philip from Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, where he has been Associate Director of Music and held very significant responsibilities for service playing and oversight of its long-revered chorister program. He has worked alongside Bruce Neswick, and holds organ performance degrees from the Eastman School of Music (B.Mus., studio of David Higgs); Yale University (M.Mus., studio of Martin Jean), and is pursuing a Doctor of Music degree at Indiana University (studio of Christopher Young). As a high school student, he studied organ with Patrick Scott. Since then, Chase has been a semifinalist and prizewinner in numerous national organ competitions, among them first prize winner in the Atlanta chapter of the American Guild of Organist’s 2018 Taylor Organ Competition. He has performed at national and regional conventions of the AGO, at the annual festival of the American Liszt Society, and has been featured on the radio broadcast Pipedreams on several occasions. An avid improviser, Chase has studied with Jeffrey Brillhart, Jeffrey Smith, Edoardo Bellotti, Thierry Escaich, and Robert Nicholls. He has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonic Orchestra, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and Bloomington Bach Society; served on the collaborative piano staff at Butler University; and freelanced as a jazz pianist. He is a composer of choral, keyboard, and jazz music, and his work has been performed by the choirs of Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, the Yale University Church, and various jazz ensembles throughout the northeast.
Nolan Anthony
Organ/Church Music Intern
Nolan Anthony began studying organ at age 12 in his hometown, Hendersonville, North Carolina, and undertook his first position as a church organist at age 14. He holds a B.Mus. degree in organ performance from Furman University, where he was a student of Charles Tompkins, a M.Mus. degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts under the tutelage of Timothy Olsen, and he recently achieved the Colleague certification of the American Guild of Organists (CAGO). He served as Director of Music at Starling Avenue Baptist Church in Martinsville, Virginia prior to the start of his internship in organ and church music here at the Cathedral of St. Philip.
David Fishburn
Organist Emeritus
David Fishburn served as the Cathedral's associate organist-choirmaster 1986-2018, and was made Organist Emeritus by the Cathedral Chapter upon his retirement in August 2018. He previously served other parishes in Atlanta, as well as in Lancaster and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, and completed additional organ study with Dr. Robert Clippinger in Harrisburg. He has performed with the cathedral choirs in Washington DC, San Antonio, New York City, Los Angeles, and Charleston, and in England at Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, and the cathedrals in Canterbury, York, Coventry, Salisbury, and Winchester, as well as at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland.
Sarah Cauthen
Director of Allegro: Music for Young Children
A native of Marietta, Georgia, Sarah Cauthen joined the Cathedral as a staff singer in 2016. She is thrilled to further her ministry at the Cathedral in the role of Director of Allegro: Music for Young Children. Sarah teaches private music lessons in voice, piano, guitar, and ukulele through Metro Music Makers. She also teaches weekly music classes for children at Montessori schools in the Atlanta area. Inspired by these joyful classroom experiences, Sarah served as Co-Director of Children’s Choirs at Dunwoody United Methodist Church from 2019-2021.
Sarah holds two Bachelors degrees in Music Education and Vocal Performance. In addition, she has completed coursework toward her Masters degree at Georgia State University. She has performed with local groups such as Capitol City Opera, Peach State Opera, Meridian Chorale, and the Atlanta Opera Chorus. Sarah lives in Marietta with her loving husband, Brentley, and their delightful daughter.