David Baskeyfield is appointed organist and choirmaster for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Greenville, North Carolina. He is also appointed instructor of organ and sacred music at East Carolina University, Greenville, and artistic director of the Eastern Carolina Musical Arts Education Foundation. For the past eight years, he has served as the director of music at Christ Episcopal Church, Pittsford, New York.
David Baskeyfield studied 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 prize), and one of few organists based in North America to improvise regularly in recital, he enjoys an international performance career. His latest CD, on the Acis label, Dupré: The American Experience, was recorded on the French-influenced 1932 Aeolian-Skinner organ at Saint Mary the Virgin, Times Square, New York City, and includes the United States premier recording of an unpublished orchestral transcription by Dupré of Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
He is represented in North America by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc. (concertorganists.com).
For information: davidbaskeyfield.com and stpaulsepiscopal.com.
Other recent appointments:
Christopher Jacobson to Dallas, Texas
