Dr William Renwick

William Renwick completed B.Mus. and M.Mus. degrees at the University of British Columbia, following which he took the M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Music Theory at the City University of New York, where he specialized in Schenkerian studies under Carl Schachter, Joel Lester, and Charles Burkhart.  He is Professor of Music Theory in the School of the Arts, McMaster University.  His research interests encompass studies in tonal counterpoint and analysis and Gregorian chant as well as computer applications in music research. His publications include Analyzing Fugue: A Schenkerian Approach (Pendragon, 1995), and The Langloz Manuscript: Improvising Fugue from Thoroughbass (Oxford, 2001), as well as articles in Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Analysis, Bach Perspectives, Music Theory Online, Theoria, Computers in Music Research, Canadian University Music Review, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and other journals. He is currently working on the first modern edition of the Music of the Sarum Office. In 2002 he was a Fellow of the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory. He is a founding member of the Gregorian Institute of Canada, and of the McMaster Institute of Music and the Mind.

William Renwick is also an organist, composer, and choral director. He holds the Associate degree of the American Guild of Organists and the Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. He has performed concerts and recitals throughout the region. In 1999 he served as co-chair of The Canadian Organ Festival in Hamilton. He is Music Director at Saint Mary the Virgin Church in Hamilton Ontario, and director of the Hamilton Schola Cantorum.

The People

Fr Gordon Maitland

The Rev’d Gordon Maitland was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, and attended schools there up until his undergraduate studies at McMaster University. He studied divinity at Trinity College in Toronto and it was while he was in Toronto that he joined the Prayer Book Society of Canada and has been a member ever since. He was ordained for the Diocese of Niagara in 1990 and served as assistant curate at St Luke’s Anglican Church in Burlington. After doing some graduate work at Trinity College (eventually receiving a Master of Theology) he moved to the Diocese of Huron in 1996. Since that time he has served in several parishes and has taught Liturgy and Church History at Huron College in London, Renison College in Waterloo, and Canterbury College in Windsor. In August 2007 he moved to Windsor with his wife and children and is now the part-time incumbent of St George’s Church, Windsor and is also the Director of Christian Studies at Canterbury College at the University of Windsor. Fr Maitland is married to the Venerable Jane Humphreys, the Archdeacon of Essex, and has two teen-aged children.

Fr Robert Mitchell, Chaplain

The Rev’d Robert Mitchell is the son of an Anglican priest, and grew up in Saskatoon. After studying theology at Wycliffe College, he was ordained deacon in 2002, and was priested later in the same year. His first position was as Assistant Curate at All Saints', Peterborough, where he served simultaneously as Priest-in-Charge of the Parish of Bridgenorth and Emily. In 2004 he was appointed Incumbent of the Parish of Churchill and Cookstown, and in 2008 he accepted the position of Associate Priest at St Thomas's Church, Toronto. His wife is a young French Canadian woman, Caroline Audet; they were married in 2003.