The July Carillon Concert Series continues with Janet Tebbel. 

Concerts are free and open to the public.  Listen from the Quad outside the Rush Rhees Library.  The Hopeman Carillon is a set of 50 chromatically tuned, touch-sensitive bells housed at the top of Rush Rhees Library.

A native of Michigan, Janet began her carillon studies at the University of Michigan. She played the Hopeman Carillon while doing graduate work in organ at Eastman. After earning a final diploma at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium, she returned to the US and began playing the 50-bell carillon at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, Philadelphia. That tower had been silent for 4 years, she has now kept it ringing for 44 years.  She has also been carillonneur of the historic carillon of the Miraculous Medal Shrine, also in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, since 2002.  Her carillon teachers include R. Hudson Ladd, Piet van den Broek and Arie Abbenes.  She has served the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America in many ways, including multiple terms on the Board of Directors, as a juror for the advancement committee and as a corresponding secretary.

As a recipient of Barnes fellowships, she has done archive work on the papers of both Ronald Barnes and Arthur Bigelow for the GCNA. She has played carillon recitals throughout the US, Europe and Canada, including performances at several GCNA and WCF congresses.  Janet’s varied working career was in early childhood music education, organ and church music, and handbell choir directing. She now enjoys volunteering at church and spending time with her grandchildren.