Marilyn Perkins Biery has been appointed minister of music at Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where she directs the choirs and the choral scholar program, administers the concert activity, oversees the musical life of the church, and plays the Merton S. Rice Memorial Organ, a 1970 Möller installation with five manuals and 121 ranks.
An active composer, hymn writer, and ASCAPlus award winner, Biery’s music and texts are published by Augsburg Fortress, GIA, MorningStar Music, OCP, and Concordia; her first collection of hymnody, in collaboration with James Biery, is entitled Seek a Place of Breathless Beauty, and was published by MorningStar in 2011. She recently finished commissions from the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Detroit and St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Roseville, Minnesota, also in collaboration with James Biery, who wrote the music to her texts.
Biery is a graduate of Northwestern University with Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in organ performance; she received the D.M.A. in organ performance from the University of Minnesota.
