I hope to have a proper bio here eventually, but for now, here are some biographical tidbits:
I was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1967.
I was brought up in Southern Baptist churches but was drawn into the Episcopal Church in high school. (Interesting fact: inviting people to go to church with you actually works!)
I started taking piano lessons when I was four years old and played pretty seriously all through high school. (I still play a bit -- here I am with a double-bass player accompanying the Saint Mark's choir at a concert in October 2009). I started playing the organ when I got to college, mainly because the campus Episcopal chapel needed an organist and, as a pianist, I was the closest thing available.
My organ teacher's organ teacher was Leo Sowerby. Somewhere in there, though, the pipeline of transmission sprung a serious leak.
Until I moved to Florida in 2006, my entire post-college life was spent at various points along I-80: South Bend, then Omaha, then Iowa City, then South Bend again.
July 12-18: 60th Annual Sewanee Church Music Conference
July 28-August 17: Clergy Fellow in Residence, St Paul's, K Street, Washington, DC
I am canonically resident in the Diocese of Iowa.
I serve at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, Tampa, in the Diocese of Southwest Florida.
I graduated from Evangelical Christian School in Memphis in 1984.
I received my B.A. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 1988 and my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1994.