WELCOME TO THE WEBSITE OF NEIL STIPP

Neil Stipp is a music teacher, concert
organist, author, and award-winning
composer. His music has been heard
throughout the United States, Canada, and
in Europe. He has served as organist at
various churches, primarily in the
California southland, for over 50
continuous years.

His highest academic achievement is a
doctorate in organ performance in June
2003. The schools he graduated from are
UCLA (doctorate and full scholarship),
USC (master's), and Biola University
(bachelor's).

Winner of the ASCAPlus award in ten
different years, including 2021, for the
prestige value of the catalog of his
composed works, he also teaches organ
and is the college organist at Whittier
College, and is the organist at Immanuel
First Lutheran Church in West Covina, CA.

Winner of first prize in the international
2010 AGO/ECS choral composition
competition for the anthem "May Your Life
Be Filled With Gladness," his work is
published by EC Schirmer, and was
premiered on 7/5/10 by the Heritage
Signature Chorale at the AGO convention
in Washington D.C. To hear the work
(MP3) and/or buy the score, CLICK ANY PART OF THIS PAGE, and then when you reach the site, hit PREVIEW.

He has performed organ concerts on both the East and West coasts, solo work in Scandinavia and Alaska, and accompanied a choir on the stage of Carnegie Hall in New York City.

"If you are a painter or a poet or a musician
or an actor—you carry within you a prize
of great worth. [If you do not create], you
must learn to love one of the arts in a way
that allows the power of another’s creation
to come alive within you. Once you love an
art enough that you can be taken up in it,
you are able to experience an echo of the
great creative act that mysteriously has
given life to us all.”
— Kent Nerburn, in Letters to My Son

Artistry = The gift that gives the believer the
skill of creating artistic expressions that
produce a spiritual response of strength and
inspiration. -- ELCA

"The happiest people don't necessarily have
the best of everything , they just make the
best of everything they have." (Anonymous)

"Service is the gift that enables a believer to
work gladly behind the scenes in order that
God's work is fulfilled." (Unknown, probably
from a believer who worked gladly behind
the scenes.)

"It is better to lose an argument to a wise
person, than to win an argument in the face
of a fool." (Anonymous -- what a great quote!)

"It's not the critic who counts, nor the man
who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or when the doer of deeds could have done
better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena, whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood, who strives
valiantly ,who errs and comes short again and
again, who know the great enthusiasms, the
great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the
end the triumph of high achievement, and who
at the worst if he fails, at least fails daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory or defeat." --- Theodore Roosevelt