About me
Carl P. Daw Jr., FHS, is a well-known hymnwriter whose hymns have appeared in numerous English-language hymnals around the world and have been translated into Spanish, Dutch, German, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Hope Publishing Company has published five collections of his hymns as well as his complete metrical version of the Psalms in three volumes. During the 1990s he organized and led a series of summer hymnwriting conferences for The Hymn Society, usually held at St. Olaf College. From 1996 to 2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society. Over a span of twenty-three years he taught hymnology courses at Boston University School of Theology and Yale Divinity School/Institute of Sacred Music and has published hymnological research and commentary in The Hymnal 1982 Companion, The Hymn, Glory to God: A Companion, and other journals and Festschrifts. Most recently he has collaborated with Thomas Pavlechko on a revised and enlarged second edition of their Liturgical Music for the Revised Common Lectionary. As an Episcopal priest he has served parishes in Virginia, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, and he taught for eight years in the English Department of the College of William and Mary before entering seminary.
