David Sears holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Peabody Conservatory and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University. He is Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Merrimack College and is also a composer. With his wife, Permelia, he was Co-Chairman of the Extant Organs Committee of the Organ Historical Society. Dr. Sears has appeared in concert throughout New England as a soloist, with his wife in piano four-hand recitals, and with his wife and daughter in family concerts. He may be reached at: searsd@merrimack.edu
Permelia Sears is a graduate of Smith College and the Yale University School of Music with a Master of Music in Pipe Organ Performance. She is a past Dean of the Merrimack Valley MA Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and has taught organ and piano through the Indian Hill Music Center in Littleton, MA. Mrs.Sears has performed solo organ recitals across New England, played at several Organ Historical Society Conventions as well as in family concerts with her husband and daughter.
Rebecca Sears graduated from Bowdoin College with a double major in Music and Classics. In August 2012 she received her Doctorate in Classical Languages from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is a Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Dr. Sears has played violin with the Lowell Philharmonic and Arlington Philharmonic in Massachusetts, the Mid-Coast Orchestra in Maine, the Wake Forest Univ. Orchestra, and the New Orleans Civic Symphony, as well as in family concerts.
The 1833 Erben, originally installed at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and housed at Grace Church since 1869, was presented Historic Pipe Organ Award number 411 on 2013-06-26 and received the designation Landmark of American Organbuilding. It was
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Grace Episcopal Church (Sheldon, VT) 