Renée Rybolt awarded 2025 James Litton Grant for Choral Training
The Association of Anglican Musicians is pleased to award the 2025 James Litton Grant for Choral Training to Renée Rybolt, Director of Music at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Houston, TX.
Renée will utilize the grant to attend the 2025 Cambridge Summer Choral Summer Course. She writes, “I am pleased and grateful to be the recipient of the 2025 James Litton Grant for Choral Training. This grant will enable me to attend the Cambridge Choral Summer Course this July to learn from the best choral conductors of our time, observe the finest Anglican choirs in their element, and receive concentrated one-on-one instruction as a singer and director. I hope to grow as a choral leader so I can share my knowledge and experience with my home church and the Association of Anglican Musicians. I couldn’t imagine a more perfect capstone to my sabbatical time!”
The James Litton Grant for Choral Training honors the late James Litton, one of the co-founders of the Association of Anglican Musicians and a generational leader in church and choral music. Its purpose is to aid musicians in developing their own choir training skills, building a chorister program for young singers, or for another endeavor which lives into the spirit of creating excellent choral experiences within the Episcopal Church. The Litton Grant is an annual program for which tax-deductible contributions may be made to www.anglicanmusicians.org/litton.
Renée Rybolt is the Director of Music at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Houston Texas. In the nine years Renée has held the position, she has increased the size of the parish choir, instituted new traditions of choral liturgies such as evensong, compline, and lessons and carols, and has hosted world class musicians and ensembles at St. Mark’s to share with her community. She had the privilege of leading music for her diocese as traditional music coordinator and conductor for the Episcopal Diocese of Texas Clergy Conference in 2022 as well as Diocesan Council Worship Services in 2023 and 2024. Renée frequently sings with renowned Houston-area ensembles and throughout the United States as a choral artist and soloist.