Musicians & Staff

Aidan Hill is the Principal Organist of the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, where he oversees the care and use of the Center’s organ, built as Op. 96 by the Andover Organ Company. A Kansas native, Aidan completed his undergraduate degree in organ at the University of Kansas, having studied with Dr. James Higdon and Olivier Latry, organist of Notre Dame de Paris. Aidan has had the privilege of competing in multiple international organ competitions in the United States, Russia, and France. He is most at home at the Chapel’s organ though, where he derives inspiration from the Mass and the sacred music of Gregorian Chant. Aidan also leads the Center’s Schola Sancti Laurentii, a group of students dedicated to the singing of Gregorian Chant at the Sunday 9:00 PM Masses.

First Prize Winner of the 1999 Dublin International Organ Competition, Douglas O’Neill is an active performer on organ, piano, and harpsichord, as well as a church musician and choral conductor. He holds degrees from the University of Evansville, the University of Iowa, and the University of Kansas, where he completed the DMA in Church Music. His principal teachers have been Douglas Reed, Delbert Disselhorst, and James Higdon. Douglas has performed solo and collaborative concerts in the United States and Europe, including the Dublin International Organ and Choral Festival. He has also performed at regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the American Choral Directors Association, and the International Trumpet Guild, as well as with the Utah Symphony Orchestra.

He has previously served as Assistant University Organist at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, on the faculty of the University of Evansville, as Associate Organist and Director of the Organ Academy at Saint Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, and as Organist and Assistant Director of Music at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. His responsibilities at the Madeleine included playing for daily liturgies at the Cathedral, managing the acclaimed Eccles Organ Festival, and teaching at the Madeleine Choir School, the only full-time co-educational Catholic choir school in North America. He also prepared numerous editions of chant and polyphony, as well as compositions and orchestrations for performance by the choirs of the school and Cathedral. In addition to his prizewinning effort in Dublin, he has participated in the Grand Prix de Chartres, the Concours internationaux de la Ville de Paris, and the RCO Performer of the Year Competitions, and was a finalist in the Grand Prix Bach de Lausanne competition.

Hannah Haring grew up as part of a large homeschooling family in Lawrence, Kansas.  Her early love of music was expressed through countless hours of impromptu singing, dancing, and playing the piano, encouraged by her parents, a musical older brother, and rehearsals with the Choristers (a performance training program of the Lawrence Children’s Choir).  As a teenager she studied piano, organ, and voice through private lessons, taught beginning piano to many young students, served as a substitute organist, and served in varying capacities as a section leader, accompanist, cantor, administrative assistant, and soloist for liturgical choir at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center between 2001 and 2015.  She was a founding member of Sursum Corda (a vocal ensemble specializing in Sacred Renaissance Polyphony), and founded and co-directed the Jubilate Deo Catholic Children’s Choir at St. Lawrence until the time of her marriage.  Hannah began teaching English Country Dance in 2006, served as a board member of the Lawrence Barn Dance Association from 2009-10, and founded the Regency Guild in 2009 under the sponsorship of the JOY Foundation (a family non-profit) to facilitate the continuation of dances and other community arts.  She married in 2014 and now homesteads alongside her husband Benjamin and their growing family on fifteen beautiful acres of rolling pasture land near Lawrence.  The Harings aspire to a Benedictine charism of hospitality, stability, and devotion to Sacred Liturgy along with hard work, dedication to the land, and continual conversion of heart, learning and sharing diverse traditional arts through their home, farm, and community life.  Hannah has a special passion for introducing children and beginners to the world and language of music, and seeks to build an authentic bridge from foundations of folk music to the heights of liturgical worship and classical performance while preserving a spirit of enjoyment and curiosity.  To this end, she has provided workshops on music theory and vocal technique, hosted regular singalongs for simple rounds building to 3 and 4-part harmony, trained musicians to accompany dance, given private lessons, incorporated a capella singing into social events, directed choir rehearsals, and led traditional sung Compline, encouraging families and musicians alike that polyphony begins at home!