September 21, 2012
THE DIAPASON
Diane Meredith Belcher has been named the permanent adjudicator for the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival, which is now in its fifteenth season.
She has been a judge in this festival two previous times.
Belcher is director of music at St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Beverly, Massachusetts, and is represented by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc. She has been regularly featured at regional and national AGO conventions, and has served on the faculties of the University of Memphis and Westminster Choir College, in addition to teaching organ at the University of Pennsylvania.
Belcher will be joining the festival beginning September 2013. Adjudicators for the 2012 festival are Faythe Freese, Cherry Rhodes, and Gordon Turk.
