About the Authors

Rob Silvan, Composer and Author

Rob was born in New York City and raised in New Rochelle NY. He has made seven cd’s as a leader including Beneath It All and The Breathing of the World.  He has been Director of Music and a member of Talmadge Hill Church since 1995 and worked closely with Mich Zeman on services and songs and many projects as well as The Innkeeper (2000). Together they created a way of worship that is inclusive, personal and expansive. Rob has written music that reflects that way of worship and is included in Beloved Mystery (books 1-4). It is original music that features songs sung to the words of poets such as Rumi, T.S. Elliot, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson and W.B. Yeats, as well as words from The Psalms and St Paul. In 2004 he founded Kids Empowered By Your Support ( KEYS ) which provides piano, violin, cello, guitar, winds and brass lessons to Bridgeport, CT school children who cannot afford them.

Rev. Mich Zeman, Author

Mich Zeman (1950-2018) was the dynamic and beloved Pastor of Talmadge Hill Community Church in Darien where with Rob Silvan as Director of Music, he transformed a very small congregation into a thriving, service-focused community with a mission, “To Know the Love of God and Share It”. Pastoral counselor and psychoanalyst with a Master of Divinity from Yale University and a degree from the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Institute, Mich was also a devoted lover of poetry and music, a keen observer of human nature, and a wonderful conversationalist with a gift for going straight to the heart of things. The creation of The Innkeeper (2000) with its dramatic narrative deepened and enlivened by the point of view of a reluctant Innkeeper is also a testament to Mich’s ear for music, love of drama and a life-long passion for storytelling that is so much part of his legacy. As a much-anticipated annual Christmas event at Talmadge Hill, The Innkeeper goes forth now to a wider audience, making its debut in places of worship throughout the country.