The East Carolina Musical Arts
Education Foundation
Our Mission and Responsibility
The East Carolina Musical Arts Education Foundation, or “ECMAEF”, was formed in 1998 to encourage and support collaborative ventures between St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, the East Carolina University School of Music, and the City of Greenville North Carolina. It focused on the C. B. Fisk pipe organ opus 126 and concert space at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. ECMAEF was created as a non-profit corporation to develop musical projects, including concerts and educational workshops, to enrich the cultural offerings in Eastern North Carolina available to a broad diversity of audiences, and to encourage continued interest in and performance of organ and choral music. The board of directors of ECMAEF is composed of representatives from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, East Carolina University, the City of Greenville, and members of the arts community beyond Greenville who strongly believe in and support this effort. The continuation of the work of ECMAEF is dependent upon contributions from individuals who attend our concerts and who support our mission. All contributions are tax-deductible under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Board of Directors
Melanie Moll, President and Elected Director
Andrew Scanlon, Artistic Director, Ex officio director
Karen Vail Smith, Vice President and Elected Director
Jon Shaw, Treasurer and Elected Director
William Gee, Secretary and Elected Director
Gloria Rose, Elected Director
Daniel Shingleton, Elected Director
Burney Warren, Elected Director
Finley Woolston, Elected Director
Jack Fisher, Elected Director
Christopher Ulffers, Director of the School of Music, ECU, Ex Officio Director
The Rev. Andrew Cannan, Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Ex Officio Director
Andrew Scanlon, Artistic Director, Ex officio director
Karen Vail Smith, Vice President and Elected Director
Jon Shaw, Treasurer and Elected Director
William Gee, Secretary and Elected Director
Gloria Rose, Elected Director
Daniel Shingleton, Elected Director
Burney Warren, Elected Director
Finley Woolston, Elected Director
Jack Fisher, Elected Director
Christopher Ulffers, Director of the School of Music, ECU, Ex Officio Director
The Rev. Andrew Cannan, Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Ex Officio Director
Artistic Director
A native of Methuen, Massachusetts, ANDREW SCANLON has been a professor in the keyboard department at East Carolina University since 2009, where he directs the graduate and undergraduate programs in organ and sacred music. In addition, he is the organist & choirmaster at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville, NC and artistic director of East Carolina Musical Arts Education Foundation. From 2005—2009 Andrew served as organ faculty at Duquesne University, and previously held positions at Christ & St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church (New York), St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral (Buffalo), First Presbyterian Church (Pittsburgh) and Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School. A frequent performer at the organ, Scanlon has performed at national conventions of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and the Organ Historical Society. He is in frequent demand as a clinician and workshop presenter, having presented sessions for AGO conventions in Boston and Richmond, as well as teaching and performing at courses for the Royal School of Church Music in Charlotte and in Nigeria.
Scanlon has given recitals throughout North America, Europe, and Africa, performing in some of the world’s most significant religious venues such as The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, (New York), Notre-Dame Cathedral, The American Cathedral and La Trinité Church (Paris) and other venues in England, Italy, Germany, Canada and Croatia. Actively involved in the AGO, Andrew Scanlon holds the Fellowship diploma (FAGO), has been a faculty member for three Pipe Organ Encounters, serves on both the National Board of Examiners and served six years on the Committee on Professional Certification. He is a graduate of Duquesne University and both the Institute of Sacred Music and School of Music at Yale University. His most recent CD recording, Solemn and Celebratory, featuring the Fisk organ at St. Paul’s in Greenville, was released in 2013. The Organists’ Review (UK, June 2014) called Scanlon’s playing on this recording “stately,” “well measured,” and “exemplary”; and The Diapason (Feb. 2015) describes it as “beautifully realized,” stating that “both performer and organ seem to excel in [the] French Romantic repertoire.” Andrew’s principal teachers have been John Skelton, Ann Labounsky, David Craighead, John Walker, and Thomas Murray.
Scanlon has given recitals throughout North America, Europe, and Africa, performing in some of the world’s most significant religious venues such as The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, (New York), Notre-Dame Cathedral, The American Cathedral and La Trinité Church (Paris) and other venues in England, Italy, Germany, Canada and Croatia. Actively involved in the AGO, Andrew Scanlon holds the Fellowship diploma (FAGO), has been a faculty member for three Pipe Organ Encounters, serves on both the National Board of Examiners and served six years on the Committee on Professional Certification. He is a graduate of Duquesne University and both the Institute of Sacred Music and School of Music at Yale University. His most recent CD recording, Solemn and Celebratory, featuring the Fisk organ at St. Paul’s in Greenville, was released in 2013. The Organists’ Review (UK, June 2014) called Scanlon’s playing on this recording “stately,” “well measured,” and “exemplary”; and The Diapason (Feb. 2015) describes it as “beautifully realized,” stating that “both performer and organ seem to excel in [the] French Romantic repertoire.” Andrew’s principal teachers have been John Skelton, Ann Labounsky, David Craighead, John Walker, and Thomas Murray.
