KATHY WONSON EDDY

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About the Composer

About the Photographer

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 .

Robert Merrill Eddy majored in 19th century American intellectual history at Middlebury College and received an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School. For a decade thereafter, he shared ministry with Kathy Wonson Eddy at Bethany Church, UCC, in Randolph, Vermont, focused on tending the fabric of community through creative process. During this time, Bob was the librettist for several liturgical dramas composed by Kathy, notably Cry of the Wild Goose: Celtic Prayers and Songs of Resurrection  and A Ceremony of Women’s Songs . While at Yale, Bob studied drawing and architecture at the School of Art and Architecture, as well as visual theology and film-making. For the past three decades, he has embraced these visual passions profes- sionally, founding First Light Studios and serving as photojournalist on the staff of The Herald of Randolph, Vermont. His work has been published widely in newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and books. He has had four retrospective exhibitions of his painting and photography. Of all his artistic endeavor, Bob cites as most meaningful his life-long and continuing collaboration with Kathy.