AAM LEADERSHIP
Patrick Fennig
Executive Director
pfennig@anglicanmusicians.org
Patrick Fennig became the first Executive Director of the Association of Anglican Musicians in November 2021. Supporting the musicians who are both dedicated to the vocation and eager to celebrate the living Episcopal tradition is the cornerstone of his work within the Association. Before joining AAM, Patrick worked as Concert Series and Library Manager at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue and was a countertenor in the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys under the direction of John Scott, Daniel Hyde and Jeremy Filsell. As a professional musician, he has appeared regularly with Early Music New York, Musica Sacra, Pomerium, SEM Ensemble, and Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble and is currently a staff countertenor at Christ Church Greenwich, Connecticut. Being a cradle Episcopalian, Patrick grew up as a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, and has served on several parish, diocesan, and national committees within The Episcopal Church. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and lives in Norwalk, Connecticut, with his wife, Elizabeth, and sons, Sebastian and Benjamin. When not working with AAM, Patrick spends time with his family, cheers on the Atlanta Braves, and organizes his extensive baseball card collection.
Executive Board Elected Officers
Michael Kleinschmidt
President
mkleinschmidt@anglicanmusicians.org
Michael Kleinschmidt is the Canon for Cathedral Music of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle. Before assuming this role in March 2015, he held similar positions at Trinity Cathedral, Portland, Oregon; Trinity Church, Boston; and The Parish of All Saints, Ashmont (Boston). Michael’s primary mentor in church music was Gerre Hancock, with whom he worked as Assistant Organist of Saint Thomas Church, New York City, in the early 1990s. Michael holds degrees in organ performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Eastman School of Music. His teachers were Haskell Thomson and Russell Saunders. As a recipient of a Fulbright Grant, he studied contemporary organ literature and improvisation for a year with Peter Planyavsky in Vienna. As a concert organist, Michael has performed in forty States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. As a choral conductor, he has led Royal School of Church Music summer choir courses in several North American cities. In addition to his professional activities, Michael enjoys exploring wilderness areas of the Pacific Northwest on foot and sharing life with his spouse, Marc Aubertin.
Kyle J. Ritter
Past President
kyleritter@anglicanmusicians.org
Kyle Ritter has served as Canon for Music at The Cathedral of All Souls in Asheville, North Carolina since 2002. Prior to his appointment at All Souls, Mr. Ritter was Minister of Music at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Arlington, Virginia, a position he held from 1993-2002. He earned both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Organ and Church Music from Indiana University, where he was a student of Robert Rayfield and Marilyn Keiser. Mr. Ritter is a past regional officer and Placement Advisor for the Association of Anglican Musicians (AAM), and served for several years on the editorial board for the AAM Journal. He taught in the Episcopal Dioceses of Washington and Virginia for the Leadership Program for Musicians (LPM), and served as chair of the National Board. He has also served the American Guild of Organists in various chapters as dean and treasurer, as well as State Convener for North Carolina.
Kevin Kwan
Secretary
kkwan@anglicanmusicians.org
Kevin Kwan is the Organist & Director of Music at Christ and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia. In addition to directing the large adult and youth chorister programs, he oversees the comprehensive concert series Sacred Music in a Sacred Space. Over the past decade, he has led choir residencies at the cathedrals in Norwich, Gloucester, Wells, York, and Lincoln, with an upcoming tour to Canterbury and St. Paul’s Cathedrals in the summer of 2025.
He received his degrees from the University of California, San Diego and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Edgar Billups and Todd Wilson, respectively. Upon completion of his studies, he served as Organ Scholar at Gloucester Cathedral, where he participated in two international tours, was featured live on BBC Radio, and played in the historic Three Choirs Festival. For four years, he served as Assistant Organist at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in New York City, where he worked daily with the renowned Choir of Men and Boys under the direction of the late John Scott. He also served as the Head of Instrumental Music at Saint Thomas Choir School.
As a recitalist, he has performed solo recitals in many prestigious venues, including Lichfield, Truro, Bristol, and Westminster Cathedrals, as well as Bath Abbey and Westminster Abbey. In 2010, he played before a capacity audience at Passau Cathedral, in Germany.
Joe Galema, D.M.A.
Treasurer
jgalema@anglicanmusicians.org
Joseph Galema currently serves as Principal Organist at First United Methodist Church in Colorado Springs, one of the largest and most active congregations in the city. He has also been the organ instructor at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music since 2008. He retired in July 2014 as Music Director and Academy Organist at the United States Air Force Academy, having served there for almost 32 years. Joe holds Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in organ performance from The University of Michigan, and is a Past AAM Treasurer (2015–2018).
Jared Johnson, D.M.A.
Director-at-Large
jaredjohnson@anglicanmusicians.org
Jared Johnson is the Canon Director of Music at Grace Cathedral, where he leads the Cathedral Choir and oversees the music program. A native of Ohio, he is a graduate of Oberlin College and Yale University. Prior to his appointment in San Francisco, he was Director of Music at Trinity Cathedral in Columbia, South Carolina, where he founded both a boys’ choir and a girls’ choir, and he taught on the music faculty of the University of South Carolina. A frequent guest conductor, he recently served as music director for the Saint Thomas Girl Chorister Course and the Royal School of Church Music Course at Duke University. As an organ recitalist, he has appeared in major venues throughout North America, Great Britain, and Australia, and his recordings appear on the Pro Organo and JAV labels. He previously served on the staff of Trinity Church, Boston; Memorial Church at Harvard; and Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, Connecticut.
Scott Hanoian
Director-at-Large
shanoian@anglicanmusicians.org
Scott Hanoian is active as a conductor, organist, lecturer, continuo artist, accompanist, choral adjudicator, and guest clinician. He is the Associate for Liturgy and Worship and Director of Music and Organist at Christ Church Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where he leads the worship department, directs the church’s four choirs, and oversees the yearly concert series. He is also the Music Director and Conductor of the University Musical Society Choral Union, where he conducts and prepares the Grammy Award-winning chorus in performances with the world’s finest orchestras and conductors. Choruses prepared by Mr. Hanoian have sung under the batons of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Leonard Slatkin, Ivan Fischer, Dennis Russell Davies, Osmo Vänskä, Kenneth Kiesler, and Peter Oundjian. Mr. Hanoian has conducted the Ann Arbor Symphony in performances of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and annual performances of Handel’s Messiah.
As an organist and conductor, Mr. Hanoian has performed concerts throughout the US and has led choirs on trips to Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, France, and Spain. Most recently, Mr. Hanoian led the Christ Church Choirs during weeklong residencies at Wells Cathedral, York Minster, Durham Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey.
Mr. Hanoian has served on the faculties of Wayne State University and Oakland University and was the artistic director and conductor of the Oakland Choral Society from 2013–2015.
Before moving to Grosse Pointe, Mr. Hanoian was the Assistant Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Washington National Cathedral, where he played the organ for many services, including the funerals of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford.
Mr. Hanoian has recorded the complete organ works of Johannes Brahms for the JAV label.
Appointed Officers
Alan C. Reed
Archivist
areed@anglicanmusicians.org
A member of AAM since 1984, Alan C. Reed served two terms as Treasurer (1999–2002, 2007–2011) before becoming AAM’s second Archivist in 2011. A graduate of Westminster Choir College, he has served Episcopal churches in the dioceses of New Jersey, West Tennessee, North Carolina, and the Central Gulf Coast. Since 2003 he has served as the Organist and Master of the Choirs at St. John’s Church in Charlotte. He and his wife Tracy founded the Gulf Coast RSCM course in 2002 and have managed the Charlotte RSCM course since 2004.
Alan attended every AAM conference from 1986 to 1998. Together he and Tracy have attended each conference since 1999, except for the 2000 conference during which Tracy gave birth to their son Drayton.
Trevor Carolan
Chancellor
chancellor@anglicanmusicians.org
Trevor W. Carolan, J.D., Dallas, Texas, is a partner at Bowman and Brooke LLP, where, as an appellate attorney, he represents Fortune 500 companies in the automotive, medical device and pharmaceutical industries in state and federal jurisdictions throughout the country. He is licensed to practice law in Texas, Arizona, Minnesota, and several federal appellate courts throughout the country including the United States Supreme Court. He is also an organist and baritone staff singer at the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, where he served as Interim Associate Director of Music and Organist in 2023. He has been a member of AAM since 2019, and served as Hotel Liaison for the 2023 Dallas Convention.
An Iowa native, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Wartburg College. At Wartburg, he was a four-year-member of the Wartburg Choir, studied organ with Dr. Karen Black, and served as Student Body President his senior year. He earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis. While in the Twin Cities, he was the bass section leader of the 100-member cathedral choir at the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.
Prior to moving to Dallas in 2022, Carolan spent seven years in federal service as an attorney for the United States Judiciary in Minneapolis and Phoenix, Arizona. In Phoenix, he also served as Associate Director of Music and Organist at All Saints’ Episcopal Church & Day School, including a year as Interim Director of Music.
The Right Reverend Brian Lee Cole
Chaplain
chaplain@anglicanmusicians.org
The Rt. Rev. Brian Lee Cole was ordained and consecrated fifth bishop of the Diocese of East Tennessee on December 2, 2017. A southeast Missouri native, Bishop Cole graduated from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1989. In 1992, he earned a Master of Divinity at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, with additional studies in Anglican Church History at The University of the South School of Theology, Sewanee, in 2001. He also pursued studies in Art and Prayer at General Theological Seminary (GTS), New York City, in 2006, and studied liturgics In Asheville, N.C., from 2002 to 2005.
Robert W. Lehman
Journal Editor
editor@anglicanmusicians.org
Robert Lehman, conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and composer, has served on the staff of several distinguished churches, including the Washington National Cathedral (of which he is a Fellow), the Princeton University Chapel, and Saint Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in New York City. For fourteen years he served as organist and choirmaster of historic Christ Church in New Haven, Connecticut where, under his leadership, the choir and music program gained an international reputation for excellence. He served The Church of St. Michael & St. George in St. Louis, Missouri as Organist and Choirmaster from 2008 to 2021. Maintaining an active career as a performer, Lehman appears as a conductor and solo recitalist both in this country and abroad. His compositions are published by several publishers and have been sung and recorded by leading choirs around the globe.
Colin MacKnight, D.M.A.
Placement Advisor
placement@anglicanmusicians.org
Colin MacKnight is Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock, AR. At Trinity, he oversees a vibrant music program which includes among its offerings weekly choral evensongs, a concert series, and chorister and choral scholar programs. Prior to Trinity, Colin was Associate Organist at Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, Long Island; Assistant Organist and Music Theory Teacher at St. Thomas Fifth Avenue, NYC; and Assistant Organist at Church of the Resurrection, NYC.
Colin received his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Doctorate of Musical Arts from The Juilliard School, studying organ performance with Paul Jacobs. For his doctoral dissertation, “Ex Uno Plures: A Proposed Completion of Bach’s Art of Fugue,” Colin received the Richard F. French Doctoral Prize. A frequent competition prize-winner, Colin has received the Fellow and Choirmaster Certifications from the AGO, receiving the prize for that year’s top Choirmaster score.
For more information, media, and a calendar of performances, please visit colinmacknight.com. Colin MacKnight is represented in North America by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc.
Daniel J. Fortune
Web Producer
webmaster@anglicanmusicians.org
Daniel Fortune is the organist-choirmaster at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Akron, Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Houghton College in Houghton, New York where he studied organ with Dr. Susan Klotzbach, and the Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Russell Saunders.
Daniel previously served as as AAM’s Publicist for four years (2009–2013) and began his work as Web Producer in August 2018. He is a former dean of the Akron Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.