A Conversation with Raymond Wise

Join Raymond Wise and John Witvliet, director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, in a conversation about the needs and opportunities in church music today.

Rev. Dr. Raymond Wise has served as a church musician for more than 30 years and has appeared on radio and television, recorded 22 albums, performed with opera singers, orchestras, dance companies, professional recording groups, and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, as a singer, dancer, pianist, composer, choral director, lecturer, and teacher.

Dr. Wise has penned more than 600 compositions many of which are available through the Raymond Wise Gospel and Choral sheet music series. His anthology of 21 Spirituals for the 21st Century has received national and international acclaim. He served as co-director of the Hampton University Ministers' Conference Choir Directors' and Organists' Guild, which provides intensive training in African American sacred music for church music ministers and college students preparing for service as church music ministers.