Fior Angelico is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization under IRS category 501(c)(3). All donations to Fior Angelico are tax-deductible to the full extent provided under law.<\/p>\n
About the Founder\/Artistic Director<\/h4>\n
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Matthew Bester hails from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He holds both a PhD and a Master\u2019s Degree in Musicology from The Ohio State University as well as a Graduate Certificate as a Specialist in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Ohio State\u2019s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He earned his Bachelor\u2019s Degree cum laude in Music from Harvard University.<\/p>\n
Matthew is the Director of Music at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church<\/a> in Columbus, Ohio. He also serves as Associate Conductor of the all-professional ProArteOHIO<\/a> (formerly LancasterChorale).\u00a0From 2002 to 2004 he was Assistant Conductor of the Ohio State Men\u2019s Glee Club. Before that, while living in Boston,\u00a0he founded and directed the Holden Consort, an amateur orchestra and chorus with a diverse repertoire of choral and orchestral works, and was music director of the Lowell House Opera.<\/p>\n Matthew remains active as a singer, performing regularly with ProArteOHIO. From 2000 to 2011 he was a soloist and bass section leader at Saint Mark\u2019s Episcopal Church. He has taught periodically as an adjunct faculty member at The Ohio State University. In 2023 he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Denison University. He lives in Dublin, Ohio, with his wife and three children.<\/p>\n See our Artists<\/a> page for bios of all our performers.<\/p>\n Soprano<\/span> Alto Tenor<\/span> Bass About Fior Angelico Formed in 2006, Fior Angelico is a Columbus-based chamber chorus dedicated to the performance of early music. Past programs have featured the works of such Renaissance masters as Josquin, Isaac, Willaert, Palestrina, Lassus, Victoria, Byrd, Tallis, and … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiorangelico.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiorangelico.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiorangelico.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiorangelico.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiorangelico.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiorangelico.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiorangelico.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiorangelico.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Current Roster<\/h4>\n
Stefanie Bester
Betsy Gillespie
Emily No\u00ebl
Kelly Riley
Margaret Wells<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/span>Emelie Bensing
Heather Chute
Mary Rebekah Fortman
Gretchen Rutz Leist<\/p>\n<\/div>
Steve Barker
Ryan Jenkins
Andrew LeVan
Ted Meyers<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/span>Jacob Conrad
Hannibal Hamlin
John Schlabach
Jim Vaigl<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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