Mr. Bickett serves as Director of Music Ministries and Organist at the historic Riverside Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville, Florida. A prize-winning performer and committed researcher, his synthesis of performance and scholarship enlivens the music of the classical tradition with compelling ideas that matter most to us today. Matt holds degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He has held positions in Episcopal, Presbyterian, Congregational, and Lutheran churches, including as Interim Director of Music at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City.

American organist Carolyn Craig, FRCO, is currently organ scholar of Westminster Abbey, following an organ scholarship at Westminster Cathedral. Originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, she earned her organ performance degrees in the United States (BM Indiana University ’18, MM Yale University ’21, MMA Yale University ’22) and first worked in the United Kingdom as organ scholar at Truro Cathedral between her degrees, in 2018/2019. From January 2024, alongside her work at the Abbey, Carolyn will succeed William Fox, Sub-Organist of St Paul’s Cathedral, and Ben Bloor, Organist of the Brompton Oratory, as a Junior Fellow of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

RSCM Summer Training Courses were a formative part of Carolyn’s education, and gave her her first taste of daily services, as she wrote in this month’s spotlight article for the UK publication The Organists’ Review. Carolyn was delighted to serve as organ scholar on the Newport, Charlotte, and Tulsa courses during her high school and undergraduate years, and as Course Organist for the Gulf Coast Course under the direction of Bruce Neswick in 2022. As a choir trainer, Carolyn has contributed particularly to probationer training but also to more general treble training at Truro Cathedral, Trinity on the Green in New Haven, CT with Walden Moore and Rachel Segger, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey.

Peter Thomson has been a Teacher of Music at Truro School in Cornwall since 2016. Among his various musical roles, Peter has helped to develop singing at the school, as director of the Truro School Barbershop Ensemble (a group for changing voices) as well as through curricular singing development and as the Boy Chorister Mentor overseeing school pastoral care for Truro Cathedral boy choristers.

Peter began singing as a chorister and choral scholar in St Anne's Roman Catholic Cathedral in Leeds, UK in 2001. He graduated with a degree in Music from Durham University, and was a Choral Scholar at Durham Cathedral during his studies. Following university, he did a gap year as a Choral Scholar at Truro Cathedral. Now, as a teacher at Truro School, he continues to play an active part in the choral life in Truro, subbing regularly with the cathedral choir, and working with other local choirs as a singer, conductor and accompanist. Peter has sung for a number of CD recordings and broadcasts, including a DVD recording recreating the first Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, which originated in Truro, as well as CD recordings with Truro Cathedral Choir on the Regent label of the works of Gabriel Jackson and of Philip Stopford, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Peter took a sabbatical from his work to pursue a Masters in Music Education at Boston University (‘22). In Boston, Peter conducted two musicals with the BU School of Theatre and sang regularly with the choir of the Church of the Advent.