Kirk Michael Rich is appointed associate director of music and organist of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia, one of the largest Episcopal churches in the country. He will assist interim director of music David Brensinger in all aspects of the music program, including accompanying the adult choir and playing for two choral services each Sunday. In addition to the adult choir of forty volunteer and staff singers, the parish has four youth choirs. Rich was most recently associate director of music for St. John Vianney Catholic Church, Houston, Texas.
After early studies with Douglas Reed at the University of Evansville, Indiana, Rich earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio, where he studied organ with James David Christie and harpsichord with Webb Wiggins. He received the Master of Music degree from the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, studying with Christopher Young, Bruce Neswick, and Elisabeth Wright. He is a Doctor of Musical Arts degree candidate at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston, Texas, studying with Robert Bates and Matthew Dirst.
