BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Amy Crawford has, for the last 20 years, worked at the intersection of ministry, consulting,  and psychology. She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical and Counseling Psychology with a concentration in pastoral counseling. Amy has worked as a trauma and pastoral therapist for youth and young adults; worked as Associate Pastor of Spiritual Care and Counseling at Liquid Church where she built out programming and ministered to the congregation and surrounding community; has done extensive organizational psychology consulting with start-up organizations where she consulted for company culture; and she currently consults and teaches on neurodiversity in ministry to various organizations, including seminaries and para-church organizations. She is in the process of becoming ordained in The Episcopal Church and receiving a M.Div from General Theological Seminary. She is also the Director of the General Prison Project, an organization that reaches out to incarcerated individuals and provides pastoral care through letters and other communications. Amy was formerly a classically trained pianist and vocalist, and has performed extensively as well as conducted children and youth choirs.

  • Brent Erstad serves as Director of Music and Organist at St. John’s Church, Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. where he conducts the fully professional St. John’s Choir, a robust volunteer Parish Choir program, and the children’s Choristers. He previously held positions as Director of Choral Music at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA and on the faculty of St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH.  Before moving to Washington DC, Brent served as co-manager of the RSCM training course in Newport, Rhode Island. Brent holds his undergraduate degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and graduate degrees in sacred music and education respectively from Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania. 

  • Stephen Gibson (Treasurer) is a retired lawyer. He graduated from the University of Iowa and Harvard Law School, after which he practiced international trade law in Washington, DC for 40 years. He has served as volunteer treasurer for a number of non-profit entities, including his local parish, as well as serving two terms as Chair of the Finance Committee of the Diocese of Washington.

  • Rebekah Gilmore is a choral conductor, church musician, and freelance soprano in the Pacific Northwest. As a choral conductor and music educator, Rebekah serves as Director of the Cathedral Choir School and Associate Musician at Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, where she trains a robust program of children and youth as choral scholars and liturgical musicians. Continuing her work in formation, she also serves as Minister of Cathedral Youth. In 2019, she founded and continues to direct the St. Mark’s Cathedral Women’s Compline Choir. 

    As a soprano, Rebekah has performed with the Tudor Choir, the Byrd Ensemble, the Emerald Ensemble, Tacoma Early Music Ensemble, Musing, Polyphony Plus, Cappella Romana, the St. James Cathedral Cantorei and has sung on numerous movie, TV, and video game soundtrack recordings.

    When not making music, Rebekah delights in being mom to her daughter, Esther, and supporting her husband, Tyler, in their family business, Brier Patch Farm, which provides organic produce to their local community in Brier, Washington.

  • Dido Heath has over 30 years of experience working in education and non-profit management. She has worked with music organizations, including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Portland Chamber Orchestra (where she was Executive Director from 2008-2011) and she was the Music Administrator at Trinity Cathedral in Columbia, SC, from 2013-2016. She has also pursued a teaching career at high school and college levels and is currently Director of College Counseling at Christchurch School in Christchurch, Virginia, where she lives with her husband and a pair of unruly dogs (her three better-behaved children having flown the coop!). Hailing originally from the UK, she completed her undergraduate work at the University of Oxford and later received an MEd from the University of Edinburgh.

  • Jared Johnson is a graduate of Oberlin College, with degrees in English and organ performance. After graduation, he received a Watson Fellowship for conducting in London. He earned master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University and is currently serving as the Canon Director of Music at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA.

  • Katelyn MacDonald (ex-officio) serves in a dual role as staff specialist for both RSCM America and Duke University Chapel. She joined RSCM America in August 2021 after graduating from Duke Divinity School with her Master of Divinity. While at Duke, Katelyn was a part of the Theology and the Arts Certificate program, and wrote several musical works that brought together the saxophone (her primary instrument) with her love of theology. Prior to moving to Durham, she served as choir and handbell director for several churches in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Katelyn received her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Western Kentucky University in 2013, where she studied saxophone under John Cipolla, and composition with Michael Kallstrom. She is a certified candidate for ordination in the United Methodist Church. In her free time, Katelyn enjoys listening to audiobooks, brewing coffee, and walking her goldendoodle, Charlie.

  • R. Walden Moore retired as Director of Music of Trinity Church, New Haven, in June of 2024, after forty years of serving the parish, having previously served as Organist and Choirmaster at St. James’s Church, West Hartford, CT from 1980-1984. At Trinity, he directed the Choir of Adults and Girls, the Choir of Men and Boys, and the Parish Choir of mixed adult voices in a regular schedule of parish services and appearances both inside and outside the parish. He served as Interim Director of Music at St. John’s Episcopal Church in West Hartford, CT for five months following his retirement from Trinity.  He continues to serve as Adjunct Lecturer in Organ at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music/School of Music where, since 2007, he has co-taught a course in Liturgical Keyboard Skills with colleague Mark Miller.  He acts as clinician, guest conductor, and organist for workshops, choir festivals, and church choir clinics throughout the year, including churches in New York, Memphis, Philadelphia, and Chicago during the 2024-2025 season. He also serves as Organist of the Pequot Chapel in New London, CT. His degrees in organ are from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music/School of Music, where he studied with Robert Baker and Gerre Hancock.  He is past Chair of the Music Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, and has served on the Executive Board of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Royal School of Church Music in America and on the advisory board for the Gerre Hancock Internship sponsored by the Association of Anglican Musicians. He has also served as organ design consultant for churches throughout Connecticut.   In recent years, he has been Music Director for Royal School of Church Music in America Summer Courses in Charlotte, NC, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Newport, RI, Boston, MA, Houston, TX, and Dallas, TX.

  • Michael Smith (President) is the Minister of Music at St. Thomas’ Church, Whitemarsh, located outside of Philadelphia, PA., where he oversees a semi-professional adult choir and a chorister program. Prior to this appointment, he served as Chair of Performing Arts at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, where he oversaw all aspects of the PreK-12 Music and Theater programs while serving concurrently as Organist/Choirmaster at The Church of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont.  Before moving to the Philadelphia area, he served as Director of Music at Groton School, where he held the Pratt Endowed Chair of Music. Michael earned his undergraduate degree in organ performance at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He went on to earn graduate degrees in organ and conducting at Yale University, where he served as graduate assistant conductor of the Glee Club. He has performed recitals and accompanied and conducted choirs internationally, and currently serves on the boards of the Yale Glee Club and the Royal School of Church Music in America.

  • Jason Overall is a composer, organist, and choral conductor based in Knoxville, Tennessee. His extensive catalog comprises mainly choral and chamber music, and it includes representative works with symphonic forces as well. His most recent completed project is a two-act opera The Doctor and the Devils, setting a libretto by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. As an organist, Mr. Overall is active as a solo recitalist as well as in duet with trumpeter Gary Malvern. Together they have presented programs to considerable acclaim in Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, and throughout North and South Carolina. Mr. Overall also excels as a choral conductor and trainer specializing in the Anglican tradition. Jason Overall is canon precentor and director of music of Saint John's Episcopal Cathedral in Knoxville where he plays for all liturgies and oversees all aspects of the music program. During his tenure, the Cathedral music program has re-established a vibrant treble choir, formed a concert series, and traveled internationally on choir pilgrimages to the UK and France. Under Mr. Overall’s leadership, St. John’s has become a featured venue of the internationally renown Big Ears Festival, and the Cathedral Choir has been invited to perform several programs, including Arvo Pärt’s Passio to a standing-room-only audience. He also is founder and director of the twelve-voice male ensemble Orison that presents compelling performances of plainsong and chant-based music. He resides in Knoxville with his wife, Edie Johnson, their two children, James and Elizabeth, and their cats, Albert and Romeo.

  • Addie Peyronnin attended her first RSCMA Summer Choral Residency (King's College Course) in 1998, and continued to attend almost annually for 21 years. She joined the staff as Course Registrar from 2006-2014, and served as Course Manager from 2014 until 2019. Addie is very active in lay leadership at her home church in Philadelphia, Saint Mark's, and has been a staff singer in the choir since she moved to Philadelphia in 2009. When she isn't singing or doing church volunteer work, Addie and her dog, Deacon, can be found out on the hiking trails in the greater Philadelphia region. Addie's professional work is in fundraising.  

  • A native of Lawrence, Kansas, Katherine Webb serves as Canon for Music at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, OR, where she leads a vibrant and multi-faceted program of music ministry for all ages. A graduate of Indiana University and St. Olaf College, Dr. Webb is in-demand as a choral clinician, organ recitalist, soprano, and composer, and she has served on the faculties of multiple RSCMA summer residencies and at the Montreat Conference on Worship and Music. An avid distance runner and CrossFitter, she, her husband Dan, and their golden retriever Joanie enjoy spending time outdoors in the Pacific Northwest.