Episcopal missionary Randall Giles has a passion for music. As Director of the Department of Music and Liturgy for the Church of South India’s Madras Diocese, he puts that passion to work in a variety of ways, including: workshops and short courses for church musicians in the diocese, an annual Summer School of Music for village church musicians, and workshops for parishes wanting to work through issues of liturgy and music's place in it.

In addition to his work in South India, Randy travels to other provinces of the Anglican Communion to do workshops and teaching. At the invitation of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, he occasionally teaches at the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music in Manila. He has offered workshops to village church musicians in the Solomon Islands through the Church of the province of Melanesia. He recently offered a four-day workshop on Liturgy and Music to participants from the Church of the Province of Myanmar.

Randy is currently involved in a project to record music from various provinces of the Anglican Communion. Titled “Throughout All the World,’ the on-going series explores little known music from places such as south India, the Church of Melanesia (the Solomon Islands), and the Episcopal Church in the Sudan.

To learn more about Randy’s missionary work and global Anglican music, visit randallgiles.org.

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