David Baskeyfield is appointed professor of organ and sacred music at East Carolina University, director of music at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, both in Greenville, North Carolina, and artistic director of the East Carolina Musical Arts Foundation, which maintains the St. Paul’s Church organ (C. B. Fisk, Inc., Opus 126) and supports programming. For the past eight years, he has served as director of music at Christ Episcopal Church, Pittsford, New York, where, as the church’s first full-time appointee to that post, he developed the music program extensively, including establishing monthly services of choral Evensong, an RSCM-affiliated chorister program, and a professional eight-voice chamber choir.
Baskeyfield studied law at Oxford University, serving as organ scholar at St. John’s College, and earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, in the studio of David Higgs. The recipient of several first prizes at national and international organ competitions, all with audience prizes, and one of relatively few organists based in North America to improvise regularly in recital, he enjoys an international performance career. He is represented in North America by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc. (concertorganists.com).
For information: davidbaskeyfield.com, stpaulsepiscopal.com, and opus126.com.
Other recent appointments:
Mark Pacoe to St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City
