Dr. Neil Harmon

Neil Harmon joined the BYU Organ Faculty in August 2018. Prior to his appointment at BYU 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.

D Kim Croft

D. Kim Croft holds B.Mus. and M.M. Degrees in Organ Performance from Brigham Young University. He also has the M.A. degree in Historical Musicology from New York University, and the MLIS Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington, where he has also done additional post graduate study in Musicology.

Kim taught group and private organ instruction while at BYU and has continued to teach privately in the Seattle area.  His “Nine Hymn Studies” has become a staple pedagogical tool in the LDS organ community.

Kim served as a guest organist at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, playing a series of recitals over a period of six months.  Currently, he is organist at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Everett, Washington, a position he has held for twenty-four years.  He also serves as accompanist for the Everett Chorale, and has appeared with the Everett Symphony Orchestra as featured soloist in a performance of the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony.

For his “day job,” Kim is employed by the King County Department of Public Defense in Seattle. 

He is eagerly looking forward to a productive retirement.

Kim and his wife, Shauna, are the parents of five children.

 

Lisa Glade

Lisa Glade has had a fascination with the organ since childhood, but didn’t have the opportunity to study the instrument formally until she entered college.  Private organ lessons “just for fun” led to a change of major and eventually Bachelor’s (1995) and Master’s (1998) degrees in organ performance from Brigham Young University, where she studied with Don Cook.  

Lisa has spent many years as a ward and stake organist and has taught organ both privately and in workshop settings.  

She recently moved to Mount Vernon, Washington.