 Dean Applegate has degrees from Linfield College, Colgate- Rochester Divinity School and the University of Oxford. Founder and director of the William Byrd Festival, he is also founder and director of Cantores in Ecclesia, a choral ensemble of boys, girls and adults, whose primary purpose is to provide Gregorian Chant and sacred polyphony for actual liturgical circumstances. From 1985 to 2002, Cantores in Ecclesia was in residence at St. Patrick’s Church in northwest Portland, where the choir provided liturgical music for the Solemn Latin Mass every Saturday and holy day. Dean Applegate is also Director of Music at Holy Rosary Church and a member of the Latin Liturgy Association and the Society for Catholic Liturgy. He studied the art of Gregorian Chant with Dr. Mary Berry at Newnham College, Cambridge, and with Sr. Claudia Foltz, SNJM, at Marylhurst University in Portland. As music director in various Catholic parishes in the Portland area since 1973, he has tried to restore the Gregorian and sacred polyphonic repertory to the modern Catholic liturgy. Over the past twenty-five years, he has taken Cantores in Ecclesia on several tours: to England, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Mexico, as well as many places within the United States. In November of 1997, Cantores in Ecclesia won three gold medals at the International Palestrina Competition in Rome. He has been married to Janine Applegate for thirty-eight years, and his son, Blake, and daughter, Jane, still sing in the choir.
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