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Eighth National Catholic Handbell Festival
Phil Roberts (clinician) and Donna Kinsey (festival chair) look forward to welcoming you to Grand
Rapids for the Eighth National Catholic Handbell Festival! Thank you for your interest in this Festival,
part of NPM’s Annual Convention under the theme
“Called to Joy and Hope: Let the Servant Church Arise!”
(July 6–10, 2015). All choirs will be expected to arrive
for set up and on-site registration at Amway Grand Plaza
Hotel by 9:00 AM on Saturday, July 4. The Handbell
Festival rehearsals will begin on that Saturday at 10:00
AM with Phil Roberts, and the three-day program will
conclude with a Festival Performance for the Convention
participants on Monday, July 6, at 7:00 PM.
Our director and clinician will be Mr. Philip L. Roberts,
editorial production manager and music editor for GIA
Publications, Inc. He is responsible for all non-hymnal
related projects and supervises the editorial staff. Phil
joined the GIA editorial department in 1996. He edits
GIA’s handbell music and serves as the company’s
handbell clinician. He is also a regular contributor to the
GIA Quarterly.
NPM selected Phil to direct this year’s Handbell
Festival. He served on the board of directors for
Handbell Musicians of America from 2008 to 2014 and
is a member of the Handbell Industry Council. Phil is an
experienced handbell and choral conductor and has
Philip L. Roberts
worked in church music ministry for more than thirty
years. A composer with various publishers, he regularly leads handbell and choral reading sessions for
GIA. In 1995, Phil led a handbell ensemble to Israel, where his group performed concerts in Tiberius,
Jerusalem, and on Christmas Eve in the Palestinian controlled city of Bethlehem.
Phil holds degrees in engineering, majoring in telecommunications, from DeVry Institute of Technology
and in music, majoring in voice and minoring in theology, from Elmhurst College, in Elmhurst, Illinois.
He lives in Darien, Illinois, with his wife, Terri. They have three grown children and two delightful
grandsons.
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Registration Information
After your registration has been sent to the NPM National Office in Silver Spring, Maryland, NPM will
forward the info to the chair of our handbell festival, Donna L. Kinsey. She will send you rehearsal
notes as well as information about handbell set-up and other details.
In order to facilitate acceptances for choirs, partial choirs, and “orphan ringers” as quickly as
possible, NPM will accept registrations on a first-come, first-served basis. Completed applications
should be postmarked by May 1, 2015. Please submit applications as quickly as possible. This
packet contains:
 Application form
 List of pieces to be played
An acceptance email will be sent to you by Donna after your registration form and fees have been
processed by the NPM office.
Once you’ve registered for the handbell festival, please remember that housing and meals are to be
arranged by the participants. Don’t forget that if you plan to stay for the remainder of the Convention
after our concert on Monday evening in the Ambassador Ballroom of the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel,
you’ll need to register for additional days or the full convention. You may register securely online at
the NPM website, www.npm.org. Housing information is also available at the website. Also, if any
ringers are under 18 years of age, NPM expects that The Code of Conduct for Youth Participating in
NPM Conventions will be followed. This information is also available on the NPM website. You may
turn your youth forms into Donna when you register at the handbell festival on Saturday morning.
All rehearsals and the festival concert will be in the Ambassador Ballroom of the Amway Grand
Plaza Hotel, headquarters hotel for the 2015 NPM Convention.
For our performance on Monday evening, choirs/ringers are asked to wear a “dress up” black top and
black pants or skirt. Men may wear ties. All ringers receive Convention Festival badges, which will
serve as admission to the Convention and Exhibits on the opening day of the Convention—July 6—only.
A full convention schedule can be found on the NPM website, www.npm.org. We encourage as many
people as can to attend the full convention. There will be two handbell sessions taught by our director,
Phil Roberts, and held in conjunction with the convention.
You should purchase your music and begin rehearsals soon, so that all ringers will be very confident
of their parts. (Order information is on the NPM website or at Musik Innovations).
Musik Innovations. 9795 Perry Highway, Wexford PA 15090
Phone: 412-366-3631; Fax: 412-366-0884
Email [email protected]
No photocopies of music will be permitted.
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Local directors are to assign bell positions for ringers in their bell choirs. Unless you speak to Donna
about your situation, you’ll be expected to bring your handbells, foam pads, table covering, mallets,
music in an easel folder, risers (if you use them), and gloves. If you are an “orphan ringer,” Donna will
assign your bells.
If you have an opening where an orphan ringer would be welcome, please let us know. Donna will
assign orphan ringers a handbell position and choir. Orphan ringers also are asked to prepare their music
before they arrive in Grand Rapids. They will also be given contact information for their new choir, so
they can touch base before the festival, if they like. Donna will work out all assignments as soon as she
receives registrations from the various choirs or—if there is a sufficient number of orphan ringers—
create a choir just for them. (Some years we’ve had as few as four and in other years as many as twenty
orphan ringers.)
Feel free to contact Donna if she can be of help. Her cell phone number is 304-692-6872, and her email
is [email protected]. See you in Grand Rapids!
Donna L. Kinsey, Chair, NPM National Catholic Handbell Festival
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NPM Annual Convention—Grand Rapids
NATIONAL CATHOLIC HANDBELL FESTIVAL–JULY 4-6, 2015
REGISTRATION FORM
Return completed application form as soon as possible, but no later than May 1to:
NPM 2015 National Handbell Festival
PO Box 4207
Silver Spring, MD 20914-4207
This amount does not include registration for the NPM Convention.
Group:
Choir (2 persons or more) fee of $50.00
$__________________
Plus number of ringers at $80.00 per ringer- +
$__________________
Total
+
$__________________
Individual Ringer:
A single ringer, not part of a choir, fee of $110.00 $__________________
Please make registration check out to: NPM. Check #__________ Enclosed
Or you can charge your registration fees:
□ I authorize NPM to charge my: □ Master Card □ Visa
□ AMEX □ Discover
________________________________________________________________________
Credit Card Number
Expiration Date
Security Code (3 digits on back/ 4 on front for AMEX)
________________________________________________________________________
Cardholder Signature
Date of Signature
________________________________________________________________________
Name on Card (Please Print)
Billing Zip Code
Name of Handbell Choir __________________________________________________
Name of Handbell Director ________________________________________________
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Name of Church/School __________________________________________________
Address of Church/School _________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
Alternate address if director not attending ______________________________________
______________________________________________________
Phone numbers – Director __________________________________________________
Church/School _____________________________________________
Orphan Ringer _____________________________________________
Email addresses – Director _________________________________________________
Church/School _____________________________________________
Orphan Ringer _____________________________________________
Amount of 30” table space needed for handbell choir -
Orphan Ringer –
___________________ feet
I will bring my own tables
___________________feet
Number of tables needed
6' _________ or 8' _____________
Bells preference 1st choice ___________________
Bells preference 2nd choice ___________________
Bells preference 3rd choice ___________________
Return completed application form as soon as possible, but no later than May 1, to:
NPM 2015 National Handbell Festival
PO Box 4207
Silver Spring, MD 20914-4207
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NPM National Catholic Handbell Festival 2015
Repertoire List
Phillip L. Roberts, Director
G-6704 Gather Us In • 3, 4, 5 octaves with flute • L4 (really L3) • Haugen/Roberts • GIA
CGB746 I Will Arise and Go to Jesus (full score) • 2-3 or 3-5 octaves bells and 2 octaves chimes with
triangle, tambourine, chime tree • L2 • Mockelbust • Choristers Guild
• CGB747 2-3 octave version
• CGB748 3-5 octave version
2703 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty • 3-5 octaves bells and 8 chimes (2 oct.) with organ • L3+ •
Morris • Agape/Hope
G-8718 An Irish Medley: BUNESSAN, ST. COLUMBA, SLANE • 3-5 octaves bells and 3-5 octaves chimes
with flute • L2+ • Krug • GIA
G-8078/8077 All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name • 3-6 bells, organ, brass quartet, timpani • L2+ •
Evanovich • GIA
G-7063 You Are Mine • 3-5 octaves bells and 2 octaves chimes • L3 • Haas/Tucker • GIA
AG35319 With a Joyful Spirit • 3-5 octaves bells and 3 octaves chimes • L3 • McKlveen • AGEHR
MSM-30-844 O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High • 3-5 octaves • L2+ • Roberts •
MorningStar
G-6179 Festive Intrada (original) • 3-5 octaves bells and organ, brass quintet • L3 • Tucker • GIA
G-6824 Sing Out, Earth and Skies • 3-5 octave bells • L3– • Haugen/Eithun • GIA
G-7095 Triumphant Celebration (original) • 3-5 octaves bells and 3-5 octaves chimes • L3 •
McKlveen • GIA
G-5321INST O Spirit All-Embracing (THAXTED) • organ, brass quintet, timpani and audience (L2+
Handbell 3-5 octave bells arr. Roberts) • Proulx/Dufner • GIA • To be published Spring 2015
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