Marilyn Perkins Biery

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Marilyn Perkins Biery (born July 1, 1959 in Elmhurst / Illinois ) is an American church musician and composer.

The daughter of a Presbyterian pastor had her first organ lessons with Norma Washburn Kentner in Sandwich / Illinois and studied organ with Richard Enright and Grigg Fountain at Northwestern University (Bachelor and Master) as well as at the University of Minnesota ( Doctor of musical Arts in organ). In 1982 she was a finalist in the American Guild of Organists (AGO) national organ competition .

From 1986 to 1996 she was music director at the First Church of Christ in Hartford, Connecticut, and then until 2010 at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota. She also worked as an interim representative at the Royal Oak First United Methodist Church in Michigan. In 2012 she was appointed musical director at the Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Detroit. For several years she directed the AGO's National Young Artist Competition in Organ Performance .

Biery played a. a. World premieres of works by the composers Libby Larsen , David Evan Thomas , Stephen Paulus , Pamela Decker , James Hopkins , Harold Stover , Frank Ferko , Emily Maxson Porter and Stephen Paulus. She was the founder and editor of the Concert Organ Music series for MorningStar Music Publishers, and published articles for The American Organist and The Diapason . In addition to choral works (partly together with her husband, the church musician James Biery ) Biery also composed some church music organ and piano pieces.

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SURNAME Biery, Marilyn Perkins
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American church musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmhurst, Illinois