RSCM America Elects New Board Members
RSCM America welcomes Amy Crawford, Jared Johnson, and Jason Overall to its Board of Directors. Elected during the November Board meeting, these new Board members will have three-year terms that run until November 2027.
Amy Crawford
Over the last twenty years, Amy Crawford has worked as a therapist, pastor, and organizational work with several nonprofits, and is currently in the process of being ordained in The Episcopal Church and receiving an M.Div. from General Theological Seminary. Jason Overall is a composer, organist, and choral conductor based in Knoxville, Tennessee. His extensive catalog comprises mainly choral and chamber music, and it includes representative works with symphonic forces as well. His most recent completed project is a two-act opera The Doctor and the Devils, setting a libretto by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Jared Johnson is a graduate of Oberlin College, with degrees in English and organ performance. After graduation, he received a Watson Fellowship for conducting in London. He earned master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University and is currently serving as the Canon Director of Music at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA.
Jared Johnson
In 2023, the RSCM America Board of Directors also welcomed two new members in the roles of Treasurer and Representative to the Summer Choral Residency Committee. Stephen Gibson (Treasurer) is a retired lawyer. He graduated from the University of Iowa and Harvard Law School, after which he practiced international trade law in Washington, DC for 40 years. He has served as volunteer treasurer for a number of non-profit entities, including his local parish, as well as serving two terms as Chair of the Finance Committee of the Diocese of Washington. Brent Erstad (SCRC Representative) serves as Director of Music and Organist at St. John’s Church, Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. where he conducts the fully professional St. John’s Choir, a robust volunteer Parish Choir program, and the children’s Choristers. Before moving to Washington DC, he served as co-manager of the RSCM training course in Newport, Rhode Island. Brent holds his undergraduate degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and graduate degrees in sacred music and education respectively from Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania.
RSCM America also thanks outgoing Board members Marissa Hall, Nicole Keller, and Susan Jane Matthews for their many years of dedicated service to RSCM America on its Board of Directors.