Hymn Festival featuring Robert A. Hobby

Join us for "From Generation to Generation: Hymns for Life's Journey," a hymn festival featuring Robert A. Hobby, children's and adult choirs, handbell choirs, and other instrumentalists.

Robert A. Hobby currently serves as Director of Music for Trinity English Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his responsibilities include playing for many of the worship services, overseeing the graded choral program, and managing the concerts the church offers. Numerous activities during his tenure include Trinity Church establishing a choral series with seventeen composers commissioned thus far, hosting a regional convention of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, producing four recordings, and expanding the opportunities for music ministry.

To date, most of his composition time has been spent writing commissions for churches and organizations throughout the country. Over 150 of Mr. Hobby's compositions are in print with Augsburg Fortress Publishing House, Choristers Guild, Concordia Publishing House, G.I.A. Publishers, MorningStar Music Publishers, Northwestern Publishers, Pavane Publishing Co., and Warner Brothers Publishers. His music has been heard on nationally syndicated radio programs such as "The Lutheran Hour", "Pipe Dreams", and "Sing for Joy".

As a performer and clinician, Mr. Hobby keeps an active schedule throughout the United States. He has played for the national conventions of the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, Organ Historical Society, and National Pastoral Musicians, and he has played for both national and regional conventions of the Association of the Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In 1996, he designed and coordinated a hymn festival that was performed simultaneously at 100 sites around the United States and Canada to commemorate the 10th anniversary of ALCM.

Mr. Hobby and his wife, Jennifer, are the proud parents of three daughters: Hannah, Lydia, and Elizabeth. Robert A. Hobby

CONCERT FOR A CAUSE: Helping Hands Clinic & Made for More

Helping Hands Clinic seeks to improve the physical and mental well-being of the homeless and poor. Made for More provides a mentorship program for student-athletes.