Christopher B. Jennings, MM, Associate Organist-Choirmaster and Music Associate for Children & Youth, assists the Director of Music in organ accompaniment and other aspects of the program, including direction of the choirs for children and youth and the handbell choir. Previous posts include Organist & Choirmaster, St. James’s Church, West Hartford, Connecticut and Assistant Organist, Trinity Church on-the-Green, New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Jennings holds the Master of Music Degree from Yale University School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, where he graduated in 2004. At Yale he studied organ literature with Martin Jean and improvisation with William Porter. He was named the Robert Baker Scholar and the Frank Bozyan Scholar in 2003, and in his final year of study he was awarded the Richard Paul DeLong prize in church music. He holds the Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University, where he studied with Marilyn Keiser. While a student at IU, he received the Dean’s Award and won first prize in several national organ competitions. Mr. Jennings appears frequently as an organ recitalist, both in solo concerts and in duo concerts with his partner, Brian Harlow. He has appeared on Jeopardy as a “clue,” playing the famed E.M. Skinner organ at Yale’s Woolsey Hall, and was the featured artist at the Daughters of the American Revolution 2006 Continental Congress.