Dr. Neil Harmon

    Neil Harmon teaches organ at Brigham Young University, Utah State University, and Utah Valley University. Prior to his university teaching in Utah, he worked as full-time Director of Music and Organist at Grace United Methodist Church in Wilmington, Delaware for 19 years. Dr. Harmon earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Brigham Young University and a Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts from The Eastman School of Music. He enjoys a career as teacher, performer, accompanist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He is known throughout the country for his creative organ arrangements and for his choral and handbell compositions.

    Sam Fleming

    Sam Fleming is known throughout the United States and parts of South America as a conductor, composer, organist, and music educator. He has held various conducting positions with community, church, and school ensembles. He is experienced as a conductor equally on the concert stage, in worship, and in musical theatre. As an organist, Fleming has performed throughout the United States as a soloist and with several choral ensembles and chamber groups. Fleming’s compositions have been commissioned and premiered by various ensembles including Brigham Young University-Idaho, Illinois State University, the Fountain of the Sun Community Chorus and the Salonnieres Chamber Ensemble of Phoenix, Arizona. His works are published through his own publishing company, SFM Publishing.

    Fleming currently serves as Director of Music and Organist at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Kansas City, Missouri and is on the faculty of Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas. Prior to his appointment at Good Shepherd, he served as Director of Worship and Arts/Organist at First United Methodist Church in Florence, Alabama and as an adjunct professor in the keyboard and choral areas at the University of North Alabama. Additionally, Fleming maintains a private studio of organ, piano, conducting and composition students.

    Fleming graduated with a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Illinois State University and a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance and Music Composition from Brigham Young University-Idaho. He will complete a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in May of 2025 at the University of Kansas in Church Music/Choral Conducting. Sam is a member of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society. He currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri with his family.

    Levi Kelley

    Levi Kelley is currently a doctoral student in Church Music – Organ at the University of Kansas, where he is studying with Michael Bauer. He earned his bachelor’s degree from BYU-Idaho, where he studied with Daniel Kerr. While at BYU-Idaho, he served as the editor for the Hymn Festival, where new hymn texts are commissioned then put to music. Levi recently earned his master’s degree in organ performance at BYU, where he studied with Neil Harmon. At BYU, he was privileged to teach group organ classes and private lessons in both organ and carillon. Although not organ-related, Levi sees playing the carillon at BYU as one of the highlights of his education. He joined the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America and passed the guild’s Carillonneur exam at the recent congress in June 2024.

    In his spare time, Levi enjoys building Lego models and reading fantasy novels. He and his wife, JaNay, are the parents of three children.

    Dr. David Pickering

    Active recitalist, recording artist, scholar, and author David Pickering begins his work in mid-July as an Associate Director of the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Kansas State University, where he will continue to teach organ students and music theory courses as Professor of Music. Pickering’s work as a church musician encompasses serving as Organist of First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, Kansas, and Stake Music Coordinator for the Salina Kansas Stake. His work as a performer has carried him to numerous locations throughout the United States; he has also performed internationally in Canada and Europe

    Pickering’s multifaceted research has focused on the composers, music, organs, and pedagogues of the American organ scene in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His four solo recordings have focused on the organ music of American composers from the twentieth century to the present day. His scholarly works are published by the Organ Historical Society Press and Wayne Leupold Editions.

    Pickering completed his degrees from the University of Kansas and Brigham Young University in organ performance and musicology; he has also pursued technical studies with pianist Sheila Paige. His organ teachers include Parley Belnap, James Higdon, J.J. Keeler, and Arlene Small.

    Pickering and his wife, Melinda, are the parents of seven children.