Chronology

• 1861-1882,  Organist, Choir Director: Silas Atkins Bancroft (1823-1886)
• 1862, Back-up Organist: William Hamilton Gerrish
• 1874-1875, Director of Children’s Music:  Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920)
• 1883-1886, Organist: Walter B. Kendall (1855-)
• 1883-1897, Choirmaster, Conductor: George Laurie Osgood (1844-1922)
• 1887, 1898-1900, Organist: Walter Raymond Spalding (1865-1962)
• 1888-1894,  Organist: Lewis Sabin Thompson (1868-1908)
• 1895-1896,  Organist: Charles L. Safford (1870-1952)
• 1896-1897, Organist: Nathaniel Goldsmith Nichols (1874-1957)
• 1900-1908,  Organist, Choir Director: Arthur Sewall Hyde  (1875-1920)
• 1908-1912,  Organist, Choir Director:  Weston Spies Gale (1877-1939)  
• 1913-1918, Organist, Choir Director:  Walter Lynnwood Farnam (1885-1930) 
• 1918-1939, Organist, Choir Director: Albert William Snow (1879-1939)
• 1939-1945, Organist, Choir Director: Lewis Stone Thompson (1883=1972) 
• 1946-1958, Organist, Choir Director: Grover John Oberle (1914-1997)
• 1958-1961, Organist, Choir Director: Lloyd Palmer (1910-1982)
• 1961-1965, Organist, Choir Director: Jack Fisher (1925 1980)
• 1965, Summer Organist: William Pruit Summer 
• 1966-1970, Organist, Harpsichordist, Choirmaster: Joseph Payne (1947-2008)
• 1968-2007, Organist, Harpsichordist, Precentor, Founder (1970) & Artistic Director of Emmanuel Music:  Craig Smith (1947-2007)
• 1971-2001, Organist, Harpsichordist: Suzanne Cleverdon
• 1982-1985 & 1989-1991, Organist: Andrew Castiglione (1930-)
• 1988- present, organist & harpsichordist, EMI’s Artistic Administrator & Guest Conductor:  Michael Beattie
• 1989-1994, Summer Organist: Christopher Roos (1964-1998)
•  1991- 1993, Organist, Harpsichordist:  Frances Conover Fitch   
•  1996-1998, Organist: Andrew Shenton   
• 1998-2015, Organist:  Nancy Granert
• 2007-2010, Acting Artistic Director of Emmanuel Music [EMI], Founder (1970) & Principal Guest Conductor: John Harbison
• 2010-present, our Music Director & Artistic Director of EMI: Ryan Turner
• 2016-2021, Organist & Chapel Choir Director:  Kevin Neel
• – present, EMI organist & harpsichordist, EMI: Michael Sponseller
• 2021-present, Organist & Chapel Choir Director:  John Dilworth