Louise Mundinger, Director
Louise Mundinger has been Music Director of MagnificatBoston since June 2014. She is an organist, conductor and composer, living in the Boston area since 1980. She attended New England Conservatory, where she studied with Yuko Hayashi and Christa Rakich, and Valparaiso University where she studied with William Eifrig and Philip Gehring. Under the auspices of a Frank Huntington Beebe award for international music study, she studied with Zsigmond Szathmáry in Freiburg, Germany in 1985-86. She has given organ recitals on both US coasts and numerous places inbetween. She has also given concerts in France and Germany. Since 1986 she has been on the music faculty of Milton Academy where she is the Academy organist, directs choirs, teaches music history and General Music classes, and coordinates an international music exchange program. As a composer she has been commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for both national and regional gatherings and the American Composers Forum. Among her recent works is The Young Shepherds' Tale, a musical play for choir, congregation and organ. Louise Mundinger co-headed the New Music Committee for the Boston 2014 AGO National Convention, and is currently planning WIMFest2016 (Women in Music) for the Boston Chapter of the AGO to be held May 22, 2016. She presented at the first Musforum conference in Manhattan in June 2015. She likes to think of music in this way: "Music creates a connection when listeners listen, singers sing, and players play."