Carol Cymbala

Carol Cymbala is an American choir director and composer.

When her husband Jim Cymbala took over the Brooklyn Tabernacle Church in the early 1980s , Carol Cymbala began building a choir with nine people. Since she could not find enough suitable literature, although she could not read notes, she began to write songs. Today the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir has 275 singers who perform four masses every Sunday. Carol Cymbala has won six Grammy Awards with her choir so far.

Carol Cymbala has three children and five grandchildren and lives in New York City .

Grammy "Best Gospel Choir Album"

• 1994 for "Live ... We Come Rejoicing"
• 1996 for "Praise Him - Live!"
• 2000 for "High and Lifted Up"
• 2001 for "Live - God Is Working"
• 2003 for "Be Glad"
• 2005 for "Live ... This Is Your House"

Works (selection)

• "Be Glad", orchestrated by Lari Goss , Chris McDonald & Oliver Wells
• "I'm Amazed"
• "O Come Emmanuel"
• "Father We Adore Thee"
• "Light of the World. A Christmas Musical", orchestrated by Lari Goss, texts by Jim Cymbala
• "Goodness of the Lord", music by Oliver Wells , arranged by Carol Cymbala

Web links

• Works by and about Carol Cymbala in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short portrait on the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir website