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Her compositions and arrangements include hymns, works for brass, woodwinds, handbells, organ, and mixed and children's choirs. She is a contributor to Evangelical Lutheran Worship, a new worship book of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (available in print in the fall of 2006). Two of her Scripture songs appear on the CD God Is Watching, a Faith Stepping Stone resource © by the Faith Inkubators Music Guild. Jayne is published by Augsburg Fortress, Choristers Guild, Concordia, G.I.A., Hope, Live Oak House and Selah. In 2000, she was selected co-winner of the Third Millennium Hymn Tune Search sponsored by the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Jayne was recognized in February of 2006 in a choral celebration of women hymn authors and composers who have influenced church history by the Elizabethtown (Kentucky) Area Sacred Community Choir. Jayne has been a guest conductor at Choristers Guild children's choir festivals in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia and has contributed articles to The Chorister journal. She has served as a clinician for conferences of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada and the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and has led workshops for the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music, Worship and the Other Arts and for the Ohio District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Jayne is available as a resource person in the area of "Small Choirs and Use of Instruments" for the Northeastern Ohio Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Jayne writes, conducts, and leads annual hymn festivals involving mass choirs and instruments. She also plans an annual Brass Choir Benefit Concert to raise money for the scholarship fund of the Middleburg Early Education Center, a concert for which she writes program notes, arranges music and plays horn and organ. Jayne, born in 1947, lives with her husband Marty (a trumpet player) in North Royalton, Ohio, and has two married children and two grandchildren. Jayne can be contacted at jscool@adelphia.net A quote: "One of the most important things we can do for our children is to help them recognize their God-given gifts, help to nurture them, and provide them with opportunities to use these talents in service to their Lord and his Church." Updated 8/2/2006
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Jayne
Southwick Cool
is Director of Music at Bethel Lutheran Church in Middleburg Heights,
Ohio, where she serves as organist and choir director, and oversees
all instrumental ensembles. She has directed bands and choirs in
both public and parochial schools, and was a private instructor
on French horn for many years. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education
degree from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music, with a major
in French horn and a minor in keyboard. Graduate studies include
work at Kent State University, The University of Akron, Oberlin
College and Baldwin-Wallace College.