Cindy Johnston-Favreau
View Calendar for "Cindy Johnston-Favreau"
View (or search) published editions and recordings by "Cindy Johnston-Favreau"
The GIA catalog lists eight compositions of Cindy Johnston-Favreau. All eight pieces provide a style of music that most choirs and congregations find both satisfying and serviceable. It seems that she composes with an understanding for the practical church musician's needs. Music such as hers can come only from those talented individuals who have had music surrounding them all their lives. She is such a musician.
Her mother, Helen, was student of Ernest Bloch and acted as personal secretary to the composer, whose summer house was a half mile from the Johnston residence in Newport, Oregon. It was her mother who notated the first two compositions of her six-year-old daughter Cindy.
From these embryonic states of music composition came the beginning of a music career that has included a bachelor of music degree from Biola University in California in 1981 and studies in England and Sweden. One could see that her music writing has not been interrupted since her prodigy days, as evidenced by her two college awards of Outstanding Composer (1984–85) and the Rayner Brown Composition Award (1984–85). Her music has found its best use by choral ensembles and children's groups who enjoy performing works in a contemporary Christian style.
She provides an invaluable service to the church's music program that requires first-class music that nourishes both singer and listener. It is music that is as fresh during the second and third time around as it was the first time. Music like that comes from skilled talent... just the talent of Cindy Johnston-Favreau.