In addition to serving as Workshop Director for GIA Publications, Inc., David Anderson serves as Director of Music and Liturgy at Ascension Parish in Oak Park, Illinois. David's formal education includes theological studies at Catholic Theological Union and Loyola University of Chicago, a Master of Church Music degree from Concordia University and advanced choral studies at Westminster Choir College. For the past eight years on the first Friday of each month, David has prepared and coordinated a Taizé prayer at Ascension Parish that brings together over 800 people from many Christian traditions.