Board of DirectorsRSCM Board of Directors Vincent Ignatius Bache, CSJ |
Ex-Officio Members Kevin Radtke, RSCM America Coordinator Honorary Members of the Board |
 VINCENT IGNATIUS BACHE, CSJ, Training Courses Committee Representative, is a Benedictine Brother of the Community of St. Joseph and serves as Superior of the Community. He is in the midst of his 20th year of service to Trinity Episcopal Church, Natchez, Miss. as Organist and Master of Choristers. Br. Vincent has been actively involved in the work of RSCM America for over twenty years and has served on the staff of several Summer Training Courses as Organist, Housemaster, Head Proctor, Adult Housemaster, and Assistant Manager. In addition to his work with the Training Courses Committee, he is also Safe Church Officer for RSCM America.vincebache@gmail.com |
 DR. BETSY CALHOUN is Director of Music at St. John's Episcopal Church, Tallahassee, Fla. She received the B.Mus. degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1980), the M.M. in organ performance from The Florida State University School of Music (1984), and the D.M. degree in organ and church music at Indiana University School of Music (2003). While at Indiana, she served as Assistant Organist at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Indianapolis. Prior to her work at St. John's, Betsy was Organist/Director of Music at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Tampa, Fla. from 1987-1990. An active RSCM member, Betsy has sent choristers and attended summer courses annually since 1990, and in 2004 and 2005 she directed the Gulf Coast summer courses in Mobile, Ala. At St. John's Church, Betsy is responsible for a large church music program including adult choirs, boys, girls, and beginning choristers from age 6 through high school. She and her husband Michael Corzine have one son, Andrew, age 16.betsy@saint-john.org |
 DIANE CARUSO received her Bachelor of Music from Kentucky Wesleyan College, and her Master of Music from Westminster Choir College. She has been the Director of Music for Trinity Church, Asbury Park, N.J. since July 2005. At Trinity, Diane has expanded the music program substantially. She rebuilt the Adult Choir and founded the Trinity Choristers, an after-school outreach initiative, which provides homework help, free piano lessons, and mentoring for children from ages 5-17. The Choristers are also an active choir of the parish, regularly singing Eucharistic services and Evensong both on their own and with the Adult Choir. The program is affiliated with and active in the Royal School of Church Music. When time permits, Diane enjoys reading, gardening, baking, and restoring her 125 year-old home in Riverton, N.J., where she lives with her husband Jim, and daughter Astrid. music@trinitynj.com |
 GARY CORRELL, Treasurer, joined the Board in 2011. Gary is a retired partner in Ernst & Young, LLP and brings 35 years of experience in financial and legal matters to the Board. He is a CPA, a lawyer, a securities principal and former treasurer of Potomac Capital Investment Corporation. He holds an MBA and a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the treasurer of the Vestry and a tenor in the choir of Christ Episcopal Church in Rockville, Md. Gary is a long-time supporter of activities at the National Cathedral and various related musical organizations around Washington, D.C. garycorrell@verizon.net |
 CHRISTOPHER HARRELL is Director of Music and Liturgy and St. Philip's Episcopal Church and Director of Choristers at St. Philip's Episcopal School in Coral Gables, Fla. At St. Philip's, he directs five choirs encompassing over 80 singers through the VOICE for LIFE training scheme. He also serves as Dean of the Miami Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and accompanies the Anglican Chorale of Southest Florida, which sings Choral Evensong at Trinity Cathedral in Miami. Mr. Harrell holds a Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory as a student of Haskell Thomson, where he spent a semester in London studying the English choral tradition. He went on to study with Marie-Louise Langlais at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris-C.N.R., where he won the top performance prize from the jury headed by Marie-Claire Alain. While in Paris, he served as Organ Scholar at The American Cathedral in Paris. In 1997, Mr. Harrell completed a master's degree in sacred music at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, where he served as Artist Affiliate in Harpsichord from 2002-2004. An active recitalist, Mr. Harrell has been featured in three broadcasts of the radio program "Pipedreams."charrell@saintphilips.net |
 BERT LANDMAN, Secretary, studied piano, harpsichord and voice at Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in Winchester, Virginia, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Church Music, magna cum laude, and a Performance Certificate in Organ. He also holds a Master of Music in Church Music (with distinction) from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, where he studied organ with Donald McDonald and choral conducting with Joseph Flummerfelt. Mr. Landman served as organist and choirmaster at Lutheran and Episcopal churches in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee and Georgia before coming to Trinity Episcopal Church in Hartford, Connecticut, as Director of Music Ministry in 2005. In 2007, building on the success of the Trinity Choristers, he persuaded the church to launch The Choir School of Hartford, of which he serves as Music Director. He is an active composer and arranger of choral, organ and orchestral music. He currently serves on the boards of The Choir School of Hartford, Integrity/Connecticut, and RSCM America. In addition to his musical interest, he is a certified Landscape Designer and enjoys exploring local waterways in his kayak when not engaged in performing, conducting or gardening.blandman@trinityhartford.org |
 THE REV. EDMUND PICKUP, JR., ARSCM is Rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Franklin, Virginia. Before his ordination, he was a practicing attorney in Charlotte, North Carolina, and thus he brings both pastoral and legal expertise to the deliberations of the Board and organization. Fr. Pickup served for many years as Chaplain for the Carolina Course for Boys, Teen Boys and Adults and still serves as Chaplain to the Montreal Course. His background and training have been invaluable in advising RSCM America on matters relating to safe and supportive environments for children and adults at RSCM events and summer courses.emmanuelepiscopalfranklin@yahoo.com |
 KEVIN RADTKE is the Coordinator of RSCM America and the Coordinator of Sacred Music at Westminster Choir College. He maintains all records of membership for RSCM America, oversees the daily operations of the office, and acts as a liaison between Westminster and Princeton-area churches. Mr. Radtke is also a lyric tenor who enjoys an active opera and concert career, specializing in character tenor roles and in Baroque music. He earned a Master of Music in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College and a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Drake University.office@rscmamerica.org |
 DR. JAMES RIGHTMYER is Organist and Choirmaster at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, Kentucky, and is the conductor of Louisville's Choral Arts Society. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the work of RSCM America, especially the summer training courses. He has attended, directed, and played for courses for 16 years and his trebles have also profited immensely from attending many of the courses.jimrightmyer@stfrancisinthefields.org |
 REV. STEPHEN ROSEBROCK is the kantor at Hope Ev. Lutheran Church in St. Louis, Mo., where he oversees the music and Christian education programs. He also has extensive experience as a general music teacher. Currently he is serving as the interim kantor at the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus, Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, where he oversees the seminary's music program, directs two of the choirs, and is responsible for much of the service playing. Rosebrock earned his B.Mus.Ed. from Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, M.Div. from Concordia Thelogical Seminary, and M.A. from St. John's University, School of Theology-Seminary. In addition to serving on RSCM America's Board of Directors and Interdenominational Committee, he is on the editorial board of CrossAccent, the journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. Stephen lives in St. Louis with his wife, Erica. srosebrock@hopelutheranstl.org |
 ANDREW WALKER, President, was born (1955), raised, and educated in England, which included singing with Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, and a music degree from the University of London. He emigrated to the United States in 1977, first to Grace Episcopal Church, Ocala, and since 1980, has been the Director of Music at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, Orlando. His music is published by the Royal School of Church Music and Paraclete Press, and he has directed choir camps (including several RSCMA Summer Courses), Elderhostels, and workshops throughout the southeastern United States. At St. Michael’s he directs a very active music department of over 90 members involved in seven different performing groups, incorporating ages from 6 months through retired, and a concert series. They have made six trips to the UK since 1984, singing in residence at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, for the most recent trips. From 1996-2002 he was the Music Director of the Bach Festival of Central Florida, Lakeland. He is married to Gladys van den Berg, has three daughters, and two grandchildren.andrew@stmichaelschurch.com |