Kent Eggert
First Lutheran Church, Torrance, CA
January 3 - 12:35 p.m.

Biography
In July, 1993 Kent began his music ministry at First Lutheran Church, Torrance CA as parish organist and accompanist. Kent's primary duties as Parish Musician include playing for 6 worship services per week and accompanying three children’s choirs and one adult choir as well as accompanying the many vocal ensembles of First Lutheran School which has an enrollment of 550, grades K - 8. Kent also participates in the parish’s handbell choir program. Prior to moving to California he was organist at Victory Lutheran Church, Mpls and associate organist at Central Lutheran Mpls where he studied with Charles Parsons. Other instructors in organ have included Pamela Carlson, James Walker, Ladd Thomas & Cherry Rhodes Kent is an active member and officer of the American Guild of Organists Long Beach, Los Angeles & Twin Cities Chapters.

In addition to his duties at First Lutheran, Kent serves as sacristan for St. Margaret Mary Parish in Lomita CA.

John Salveson
Church of St. Joseph, Hopkins, MN
January 10 - 12:35 p.m.

Biography
John Salveson is a graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead Minnesota, and Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, MN. Since completing his degree he has been working in Lutheran and Catholic Churches in the Twin Cities area and Lawrence Kansas. He is Currently the director of Music at Mount Carmel Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, MN, and is a doctoral student in organ performance at the University of Minnesota where he is a student of Dr. Dean Billmeyer.

Tom Ferry
Como Park Lutheran, Saint Paul
January 17 - 12:35 p.m.

Biography
Thomas Ferry is Director of Music Ministries at Como Park Lutheran Church where he runs an extensive program for choirs, bells, instrumentalists, and plays for services. He has been an active organist, conductor and teacher in the Midwest since 1990 Mr. Ferry is a graduate of Eastman School of Music and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is also an active member of the Voice Care Network, Music Teachers National Association, American Guild of Organists, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and the American Choral Director’s Association and has served in a variety of leadership positions with these organizations.

Nathan Proctor &
David Sims
St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
January 24 - 12:35 p.m.

Biography
Nathan Proctor is a senior at St. Olaf College where he will graduate in May with a Bachelor of Music degree in Church Music- Organ. He is originally from Carroll, Iowa. While at St. Olaf, Nathan studies organ with John Ferguson and voice with Tracey Gorman. He is also a member of the St. Olaf Choir. After graduation, Nathan will spend the first half of the year as the Interim Music Director at First Presbyterian Church in Asheville, NC. When this position ends in January he plans to start his graduate organ study at Indiana University studying with Larry Smith. After the completion of his studies, he hopes to become a music director at church somewhere in the midwest.

David Sims is a senior at St. Olaf College, where he is a Church Music-Organ major in the Bachelor of Music program. He left his hometown of Champaign, IL to study psychology or physics or something else sensible, but soon found that he loved music too much not to make it his life. David sings in the St. Olaf Choir, and studies organ with Catherine Rodland and voice with Sigrid Johnson. He keeps busy as the president and bass section leader of the Choir, useful diversions after St. Olaf's two recital organs were hit by lightning and flooded the same week this fall. His dream job would be conducting a choir by day, accompanying silent movies on a Wurlitzer by night, doubling also as a teacher, church organist, and psychologist. Since that job doesn't exist, he plans to stay in school as long as possible until he figures it out.

Ralph Johansen
Peace Presbyterian Church, St. Louis Park
Scottish Rite Masons, Minneapolis
January 31 - 12:35 p.m.

Biography
Ralph Johansen has studied with Howard Don Small and Diana Lee Lucker. He is currently studying with Dr. Dean Billmeyer. Ralph Currently serves as the organist at Buffalo Presbyterian Church and for the Scottish Rite Masons in Minneapolis.