Jan Siskin

Education:  Bachelor of Music    
Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey       

Major:  Piano Performance         
Minor:  Voice

Student of William Cheadle, Harold Zabrack
(The Juilliard School, New York, New York)
Winner of the Arthur Judson Prize in Piano

Instructor in piano with the Westminster Conservatory Division of Westminster Choir College and Musika, New York.  Instructor at the College of New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey. Private lessons in piano and voice.  Prepared boy soprano for successful admission to, and graduation from St. Thomas Boychoir School, New York.  Currently singer at Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral, San Francisco.

Conductor specializing in early music and chant.

Choral Experience:  As a member of the Westminster Choir, performed with major east coast orchestras.  Representative works include:  Mozart, Coronation Mass, Requiem; Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, Missa Solemnis; Berlioz, Roméo et Juliette, Te Deum, La Damnation de Faust; Mahler, Eighth Symphony; Wagner, Das Liebesmahl der Apostel; Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms; Kodály, Psalmus Hungaricus; Bernstein, Chichester Psalms

Ballet Accompanist:  Princeton Ballet Workshop, The Agnes DeMille Studios (New York), School of the Pennsylvania Ballet (Philadelphia), The Scottish-American Ballet, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland

Onstage Ballet Performer:  The Scottish-American Ballet, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland in ballet setting of Schumann’s Carnaval

Organist/Choirmaster:  Church of the Epiphany (Episcopal), Thousand Oaks, California; Church of St. Mary in Palms, Los Angeles, California;
All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Orange, New Jersey; St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, Hawthorne, New Jersey; Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, West Orange, New Jersey; St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Harrington Park, New Jersey; All Saints’ Church, Bergenfield, New Jersey; St. Elizabeth’s Church (Episcopal), Jacksonville, Florida