Roger T. Petrich
From 2000 to 2018, the Director of Music Ministries for the
Catholic Community of St Thomas More, Chapel Hill, NC, Roger Petrich
previously served parishes in Illinois, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
Of German-Norwegian ancestry, born and raised in North Dakota, he has a Bachelor of Music, magna cum laud, from St Olaf College,
with graduate studies at The University of Iowa.
He was among the first Fellows of the College of Church Musicians,
Washington [Episcopal] Cathedral, Washington DC,
and also studied at the Berlin School of Church Music, Spandau, Germany.
Studies in Pastoral Ministry were done at Kansas-Newman College, Wichita KS.
Mr Petrich studied composition with the Pulitzer prize winning
American composer, Leo Sowerby, and also with the German composer
Ernst Pepping. Mr Petrich’s music has been published by Oxford
University Press, Selah, Concordia, Morningstar, Augsburg and
Fortress publishing houses.
Some Published music.
Some Unpublished music.
Some Petrich music Reviewed
Link to ChoralWiki Petrich page at the Choral Public Domain Library [CPDL] website
Pepping Blog
Sowerby Blog
Another View to the horizon
of the North Dakota prairie
in Cass County, Pontiac township
where my father, grandfather & greatgrandfather once farmed.