Sharon Elery Rogers

Sharon Elery Rogers (4 March 19293 May 2022) was an American composer, music educator, and organist who published over 550 compositions of sacred music. Rogers was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Lea and Leo Elery. She married Walter Rogers and they had one daughter. Rogers belonged to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), the Cecilian Music Society, the National Federation of Music Clubs and Sigma Alpha Iota. She received 46 special awards from ASCAP; first prize in the 1993 American Guild of English Handbell Ringers composer’s contest; an Honorary Alumni Achievement Award from Hillsdale College; and an Honorary Life Membership in the American Guild of Organists (Detroit chapter). In 1999, the Jeffers Handbell Supply Publishing Company named her Composer of the Year. Rogers’ sacred music for brass, choir, handbells, organ and piano has been widely published by Alfred Music, Bourne Company Music Publishers, Chorister’s Guild Publishers, Flammer-Shawnee (today the Hal Leonard Corporation), Hope Publishing Company, Lorenz Publishing Company (today the Lorenz Corporation) and Sacred Music Press. References External links *Listen to music by Sharon Ele