A. Roy Daniels This is Me

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 Web References

1. 1. First Presbyterian Church: Pastor's Report

   firstprescc.com/Pastor.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/21/2006   Last Visited: 8/21/2006

   The Session has hired A. Roy Daniels as our new Director of Music/Organist beginning August 1st. Roy comes to us after serving 1989-present as Organist/Director of Music at St. Michael's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Carlsbad, California. From 1987-1989, he was the Organist/Choir Director at Gethsemene Lutheran Church, San Diego, California and from 1973-1983, the organist at Paradise Valley Methodist Church, Paradise Valley, Arizona.
   
   Roy grew up in Shawnee, Oklahoma and graduated in 1965 from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Music Education in Bassoon and Organ. He studied under the same organ professor who taught Barbara Massey. He left the University of Oklahoma in 1968 after doing Masters work in organ performance and joined the Navy and played in their band for four years.
   
   In addition to his musical talents, Roy received an Associate Degree from the California Culinary Academy, San Francisco, California in 1984, and a Diplome de Cuisine from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, France in 1986. He currently uses his culinary talents as a restaurant consultant. Roy also provides a recording CD service for smaller churches that cannot afford a full sized studio. He will be bringing this equipment with him and using it with our choirs.
   
   Some of Roy's personal accomplishments over the past years include: *Short organ recital, after vespers, in Notre Dame, Paris, summer of 1996, *Performance by St. Michael's choir in Carnegie Hall, New York, 1998, *Organ recital in Westminster Abbey, London, summer of 1999, and *Recitals in Southwest England and Wales, summer of 2005. He is a member of the American Guild of Organists, the Association of Anglican Musicians, the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, and the Royal School of Church Musicians.
   
   Our Search Committee was impressed with Roy's personality as well as the variety of organ and piano music that he performed for our committee. We are excited that Roy has accepted our position and felt the need to move to Corpus Christi to escape the high cost of living in California before he eventually retires. We look forward to Roy bringing new energy and variety to our church's music program.