Richard Gray has served as the Director of Music and Organist for St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, St. Paul, MN, since the Fall of 2018. He is Artistic Director of the church’s Winifred Bean Sacred Music Series and coordinator of the choral compline ministry. He is currently preparing the choir for its first UK Choral Evensong Residency at both Canterbury and St. Albans Cathedrals in July of 2024.

Richard has held positions on the music staffs of St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville, where he trained as organ scholar, and Highland Park Presbyterian Church, Dallas, as assisting organist during his graduate music studies. He holds degrees from Southern Methodist University and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Additional studies and training have been at the McGill Summer Organ Academy, Montréal, the Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute as a Conducting Fellow, the Cambridge Choral Summer Course, and the University of North Texas Conducting Symposium.

He won the Prize for Hymn Playing Excellence in the 2016 William C. Hall Pipe Organ Competition, San Antonio. Richard has performed concerts in notable venues throughout the United States including Charlotte’s Myers Park Baptist Church, Washington DC’s National City Christian Church, Cleveland’s The Church of the Covenant, Boston’s Trinity Church on Copley Square, and The Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul, Charleston, SC. Richard is an active member of the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and Association of Anglican Musicians.