Paul Hillebrand is a musician, artist and spiritual leader. Originally from
Evanston, Illinois
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, he relocated to attend
Arizona State University
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with spiritual leaders including
musical artist
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Tom Boot
and Biblical Theology, Bible scholar Kevin Saunder
Hillebrand graduated ASU with honors and a degree in choral education and later complemented his music with additional theological studies by completing a certificate advanced liturgical studies at Corpus Christi Center in Phoenix
Liturgical leader
Hillebrand has been writing and performing music and has been involved in Liturgical Music
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Ministry for since the early 1980s. He began at St. Jerome's in Glendale, AZ
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History
In the late 1800s the area that is now Glendale was all deser ...
and moved to St. Maria Goretti
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Catholic Church
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, in Scottsdale, Arizona
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, where he was the Director of Music and Liturgy for 15 years. Since 2001 Hillebrand has been the Director of Music at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Scottsdale, Arizona
Family
Hillebrandlives in Tempe, Arizona
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. His youngest daughter Julia died of a brain tumor in December 2010, shortly before her 13th birthday.
Teacher
Hillebrand leads prayer concerts, workshops and retreats throughout the year. He has sung on many recordings for various Liturgical artists. Hillebrand is a pianist and guitarist.
St. Patricks, where Paul is Director of Musi
is a parish of over 4,000 families. It has been indicated as one of the fastest growing parishes in Arizona.
Music collections
Hillebrand's latest release is a compilation album entitle
"Towards Jesus, Songs of Comfort and Hope" - Inspired by Julia Hillebrand"
This album contains works from Hillebrand, Matt Maher
Matthew Guion Maher (born November 10, 1974) is a Canadian contemporary Christian music (CCM) artist, songwriter, and worship leader from Newfoundland, Canada, who lives in the United States. Three of his nine albums have reached the Top 25 ...
, Tom Booth, Aaron Thompson, Michael John Poirier, Audrey Assad and Julia Hillebrand. Money raised from this album will be donated to Pediatric Brain Tumor Research.
There are three collections of Hillebrand's original Liturgical music–“Promise”, “How Shall We Know You? and “Journey to You”–and 4 other collections of various composers': ”I Will Lift Up My Voice”- Sung sacred Classics, “Seasons of Prayer”, “Come to Us, O Lord” a Christmas album and “Songs of the Good Shepherd” a children’s collection. Paul is also published at Oregon Catholic Press
Oregon Catholic Press (OCP, originally the Catholic Truth Society of Oregon) is a publisher of Catholic liturgical music based in Portland, Oregon. It published the newspapers '' Catholic Sentinel'' and ''El Centinela''; both papers have been di ...
, Spirit and Song, and World Library Publications. A recent critique of Hillebrand's recent album was published in the Catholic Sun
References
External links
* http://www.stpatricksscottsdale.org
Paul Hillebrand Website
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Composers of Christian music
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people