Author Ann K. Gebuhr is a composer, music theorist, author and teacher. Her orchestral music has been performed by symphonies throughout the United States and in Germany and Romania. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Rockefeller Scholar in Residence in Bellagio, and the first woman to be awarded the Creative Artist Award in Composition by the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County in 1998 and again in 2009. She holds the BM in Piano Performance and MM and Ph.D in Music Theory with piano and composition minors from Indiana University. Currently she teaches, learns, writes and lives in Houston, Texas.

A 21st Century delighted embracing of the musical, mystical, theological, medicinal, and artistic gifts of a 12th Century Benedictine Abbess, newly named a Saint and a Doctor of the church.

To Hildegard, who continues to
awaken, inspire, and touch our souls today.

To four friends who have shared Hildegard's music, message, medicine and vibrant, joyous energy of vision, health and love for all creation –
Rochelle Manske, Teresa Grawunder, Katrin DeBakey, and Carol Nave.

Hildegard von Bingen 12th Century chant Hufnagelschrift Bingen, Germany Eibingen Disibodenberg Scivias

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The Hubble image of the ‘Mystic Mountain’, the Carina Nebula, taken
February 2010.