Ryan M. Bartosiewicz is elected president of Andover Organ Company, Methuen, Massachusetts, the seventh since the company’s founding in 1948. He succeeds Don Glover, who served after the 2012–2021 tenure of the late Benjamin Mague.
Bartosiewicz joined Andover full time in 2012 and has worked on restoration projects, including those for clients in Round Lake, New York; Haverstraw, New York; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Charlestown, Massachusetts; Nantucket, Massachusetts; as well as Andover Opus 118 for First Parish Church, Wayland, Massachusetts. He was project manager for the recent restoration and relocation of the 1907 Emmons Howard mechanical-action organ at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. A skilled tuner and voicer, he has headed Andover’s organ maintenance teams for New England as well as the Southern States and Upstate New York.
Bartosiewicz is music director/organist at St. George’s Episcopal Church, Durham, New Hampshire. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Gettysburg College where he studied organ with Josephine Bailey Freund. He was awarded an Organ Historical Society E. Power Biggs Fellowship in 2011 and an American Institute of Organbuilders Convention Scholarship in 2013.
For information: andoverorgan.com.
Other recent appointments:
Chad Fothergill to Duke Chapel, Duke University
Margaret Harper to Trinity Episcopal Church, Princeton, New Jersey
