Marilyn Ruth Biery

Background

Biery, Marilyn Ruth was born on July 1, 1959 in Elmhurst, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Alfred Lewis and Dorothy Jane (Patterson) Perkins.

Education

Bachelor of Medicine in Organ Performance, Northwestern University, 1980; MM, Northwestern University, 1982; postgraduate, U. Connecticut, 1994-1996; postgraduate, University of Minnesota, since 1996.

Career

Organist, choirmaster, St. Andrew's Church, Meriden, Connecticut, 1984-1986; director music ministries, Center Church/First Church of Christ, Hartford, Connecticut, 1986-1996; director music, St. Michael's Cathedral, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1996; associate choir director, organist, Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Paul, since 1996.

Works

• book

  • Organ Meditations on the Love of God - Organ

    (Organ Meditations on the Love of God - Organ - Moderately...)

Membership

Member American Guild Organists (associate, Region I coordinator professional concerns 1992-1996, Region VI coordinator for professional concerns since 1997, director National Young Artist Competition since 1997), Pi Kappa Lambda.

Connections

Married James Russell Biery, August 16, 1980. 1 child, Laura Elizabeth.

Father:

Alfred Lewis Perkins

Mother:

Dorothy Jane (Patterson) Perkins

Spouse:

James Russell Biery

child:

Laura Elizabeth Biery