Nicholas Schmelter is appointed 2018–2019 artist-in-residence for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Flint, Michigan. His duties include performing three concerts as part of the new parish Music in the Heart of the City series and supervising the commission of pieces by Moonyeen Albrecht and Edward Moroney written to highlight the four-manual, 89-rank Florence Whiting Dalton Memorial Pipe Organ (see Here & There, May 2018, p. 6).
Schmelter earned a Master of Music degree in organ performance from Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant. He is director of worship and congregational life at First Presbyterian Church, Caro, Michigan, and is an adjunct faculty member at Saginaw Valley State University. He has served as artist-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in Bay City, Michigan, since 2007.
