Artist description John Schlenck was born in Indianapolis in 1936 and graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 1957. As music director of the Vedanta Society of New York since 1961 he has composed many songs and a number of larger works with Vedantic and other spiritual texts.Seek the Eternal: An Interfaith Cantata Celebrating the Spiritual Life, was performed at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago 1993 with Judith Karzen conducting the Halevi Choral Society. In 1994 the cantata The Universal Gospel was performed at the Conference on Global Religions at Queens College, New York, and the oratorio trilogy A Mission to the World, for chorus and orchestra, vocal quartet and narrators, was performed at Alice Tully Hall, New York, both with Judith Clurman conducting The New York Concert Singers. In 1997, his Three Vedantic Hymns were released on the New World recording Divine Grandeur (80504-2), with Clurman conducting. Schlenck’s fruitful collaboration with choral conductor Timothy Mount, beginning in 1997, has resulted in yearly recordings in the U.S. and Russia.Schlenck’s instrumental works include three symphonies; a string quartet; a woodwind quintet; a piano concerto; Scale Countdown, a suite for piano solo; and Chaconne on a Devotional Raga, also for piano solo. His Sonata in Two Movements for cello and piano is scheduled to be released by the Contemporary Record Society later this year.

Music Style Choral, chamber, orchestral, religious, world

Musical Influences Vaughan Williams, medieval and Renaissance sacred music, Indian classical and religious music

Albums Hymn to Holy Mother and Invocations, The Interior Christ, Meditations on Indian Themes, The Illumined Self, The Bard and the Prophet and Three Vesper Hymns

Location New York, NY - USA

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