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The Rev. Canon Robert G. Carroon, Associate Priest,  received his BA from Indiana State in 1959, his M.Div from Nashotah House in 1962, his MA from the University of Wisconsin in 1970 and his D.Litt from Sussex in 1977.  He served in parishes in the Diocese of Milwaukee and as Dean of All Saints Cathedral in Milwaukee.  For twenty years he was Archivist and Historiographer of the Diocese of Connecticut and after retiring from that position served four years as Director of Scholarship Programs of the Society for the Increase of the Ministry.  He has served as a deputy to five General Conventions of the Episcopal Church, as Secretary of the Board of Archives of the Episcopal Church and as president of the National Association of Episcopal Historians and Archivists.  In 1997 he received the Canon John W. Davis Award for contributions to the study of the history of the Episcopal Church.  He is the author of six books, and numerous articles on historical subjects.  He is Chaplain of the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford, and is the National Senior Vice Commander of the Order of the First World War.  He is a former professional hockey player.  In 2000 he was appointed an Honorary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral.

has conducted orchestral, operatic and choral repertoire throughout the eastern United States and abroad.  In 1993, he made his professional debut conducting Company One Theater’s world premiere of James Sellars’s opera The World is Round at the Wadsworth Athenaeum’s Aetna Theater.  More recently he appeared on short notice to conduct Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda in Boston’s Jordan Hall with the Boston Academy of Music.  He has appeared in Brazil with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Estado de São Paulo, Alice Tully Hall and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh and the Rathaus in Vienna.  Mr. Swann conducted BAMOpera’s The Beggar’s Opera, which was named “Best of Boston,” and returned to conduct L’Elisir d’amore.

Mr. Swann served as the Resident Conductor of The Connecticut Opera, as well as the Music Director of Opera Express, its nationally recognized touring and educational program.  He is the Choirmaster and Organist at Grace Episcopal Church in Hartford, where he conducts a select choir in traditional a capella repertory.  In addition, he has conducted Hartford performances of such works as Mephistofele, Rigoletto, Lucrezia Borgia, and La fille du régiment.  He has performed with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the South Florida Opera Company, and the Opera Theater of Connecticut.

At the Hartt School of Music, Mr. Swann was the Karl Böhm International Fellow of Orchestral Conducting.  While there, he conducted performances of the symphony, choruses, and the opera theater.  He recently conducted Mozart’s Impresario and La nozze di Figaro for Intermezzo Young Artists.  In addition to having a love of opera and chamber music, he is an avid dressage rider and equine devotee.