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Dinah Reindorf

Hymnal Number: 35 Composer of "[Kyrie, eleison]" in Global Praise 3

b. 1944 Person Name: Paschal E. Jordan, O. S. B. Hymnal Number: 14 Author of "How great your name" in Global Praise 3 Guyana, Roman Catholic Monk Sing a New Song No. 3 by Patrick Prescod (Bridgetown, Barbados: Cedar Press, 1981)

Geoff Weaver

b. 1943 Hymnal Number: 81 Arranger of "[Na Jijoho, jijoho ni tin]" in Global Praise 3

Per Harling

b. 1948 Hymnal Number: 40 Author of "Du är helig (You are holy)" in Global Praise 3

Puqi Jiang

Hymnal Number: 42 Arranger of "[Amen, amen, amen. Amen, amen, amen]" in Global Praise 3

Andrew Donaldson

b. 1951 Hymnal Number: 167 Author (English) of "Tu fidelidad (I depend upon your faithfulness)" in Global Praise 3 Andrew Donaldson, a composer and church musician, grew up in northern Ontario, Canada. He attended Glendon College, York University in Toronto, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. He went on to study classical guitar performance at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, receiving its ARCT (Associate of Royal Conservatory Teachers) degree in 1979. Since then he has worked as a composer and performer in many contexts, in both French and English. Andrew co-edited the Book of Praise (1997), Presbyterian Church in Canada, with Donald Anderson. Their company, Binary Editions, continues to administer copyright for the PCC. In 2007 he was made a Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, by Knox College of the University of Toronto, for his body of work in congregational song in the Presbyterian Church in Canada. In 2011 Andrew and his wife, Wendy, moved to Geneva, Switzerland where Andrew works as a worship consultant to the World Council of Churches. --Submitted by Andrew and Wendy Donaldson, 13 August 2013

Carolyn Jennings

b. 1936 Hymnal Number: 149 Translator (English) of "We are people on a journey (Somos pueblo que camina)" in Global Praise 3 Carolyn Jennings (born August 16, 1936) is a Professor Emerita of Music at St. Olaf College where she taught for many years and also served in administrative roles, including Chair of the Music Department and Associate Dean for the Fine Arts. Carolyn Jennings is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music magna cum laude and the University of Michigan where she received her Master of Music degree as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. She also served as a church musician for over thirty years, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Northfield, Minnesota. Over many years she has served on arts advisory panels, as a workshop presenter, and in leadership roles in several professional organizations. She has been active in promoting the use of inclusive language in texts for singing, and has worked to heighten awareness of how language shapes as well as expresses thought. Her compositions and arrangements include works for voices, orchestra, and piano. She particularly enjoys composing for voices. Among her many commissioned works are a children's musical, a choral song cycle, a composition for the Minnesota Aids Quilt Songbook, and many compositions for church, school and community choirs. She has received major grants from the Composers Commissioning Program through the Minnesota Composers Forum. Choral compositions and arrangements by Carolyn Jennings are widely sung by church, community, college and school choirs. Her publications include over a hundred choral compositions and arrangements, a number of text translations, contributions to several hymnals, and articles for professional journals. She has been active in the American Choral Directors Association, the Music Teachers National Association, the Minnesota Composers Forum, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and as a guest conductor and workshop leader. --apimusic.org/composers

Patrick Prescod

1932 - 2013 Person Name: P. E. P. Hymnal Number: 14 Arranger of "[O praise the Lord within the Assembly!]" in Global Praise 3 Patrick Prescod was born in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He was a virtuosic pianist. He studied at Trinity College of Music in London, then returned to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, taught music, led The Kingston Chorale and Cantemus, and worked as the Music Director for the Education Ministry from 1979-1982. He edited the Caribbean hymnal Sing A New Song No. 3. Prescod tried to integrate the familiar cultural features, rhythms, and musical forms into the unfamiliar context of worship. Dianne Shapiro

Patrick Matsikenyiri

1937 - 2021 Hymnal Number: 22 Translator (English) of "Halleluya" in Global Praise 3

Howard S. Olson

1922 - 2010 Hymnal Number: 105 Translator (English) of "Gracious Spirit (Njoo kwetu, Roho mwema)" in Global Praise 3 Howard Olson (b. 1922; d. 2010), longtime missionary/teacher in African, compiled a number of African songs in Set Free (Augsburg Fortress, 1993). Many were folk tunes to which Christian Swahili texts were later added. He wrote in the introduction: “In their original form these tunes wee sung with uninhibited improvisation. Consequently the form in which these songs appear in this book represents only one of several possibilities.” Sing! A New Creation