For the last 14 years, Jeffrey Mills has served as Organist and Choirmaster at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Newtonville. Previously in the Boston area, he has served in several parishes as Interim or Organist/Choirmaster including the Parish of All Saints, Ashmont; Christ Church, Hyde Park; and Grace Church, Newton, and substituted at scores of churches. Prior to his undergraduate studies at Indiana University under the tutelage of Oswald Ragatz, he studied with Marianne Webb in Carbondale, Illinois. Since coming to Boston, he has studied with John L. Hooker and David von Behren.

Nathan Skinner is Director of Music and Organist at Park Street Church, Boston, where his greatest passion is selecting and leading congregational hymns each week. Nathan performs regularly, including recently at a BAGO First Night organ recital; he has also hosted a chapter-sponsored organ crawl.

His Master of Sacred Music is from Boston University, where he was a student of Peter Sykes and Carl P. Daw. Other teachers include Roy Brunner and Mia Chung, though his parents taught him the most important lessons.

As sub-dean he hopes to build on the good work of the program committee, drawing in chapter members and the general public with solid, appealing offerings.

Nathan lives in Danvers with his wife Sarah (a violinist) and their five daughters: Ellen Cecilia, Marie Aurelia, Margaret Elizabeth, Sylvie Anne, and Cecily Alexandra. He spends his free time renovating his 1917 house, and in his basement workshop, fixing everything  under the sun.

A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, Joshua T. Lawton is an accomplished organist, pianist, singer, and composer living and working in the Boston area. He undertook organ studies with Edwin I. Lawrence after receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Williams College, and went on to obtain a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance with Distinction from the Longy School of Music as a student of Peter Sykes. 

An experienced church and choral musician, he has sung in groups including the choirs of Trinity Church Boston, First Parish in Framingham, New Century Voices, the Boston Cecilia, and the Seraphim Singers.  As solo recitalist, collaborative pianist, and chamber musician, he performs a wide variety of repertoire, specializing in the organ works of Olivier Messiaen, Paul Hindemith, Hugo Distler, and others. 

He presently serves as Music Director of the Parish Choir and Chorister Academy at Trinity Parish of Newton Centre, and as Assistant Director and rehearsal accompanist for The Seraphim Singers.

Sean Glennon has served as an organist and choir director at churches in the Greater Boston area for over twenty-five years. He has been the organist and choirmaster at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Hanover (MA) since 2011. Sean has been a member of the BAGO Executive Committee since 2022 and has enjoyed his roles as a member of the Program Committee and Finance Committee; Chair of the Operating Procedures Committee; and Moderator of the chapter's listserver.  I

n his full-time career, Sean is employed as the Community Development Director for the City of Quincy, MA, where he manages millions of dollars in federal grants. He is the Immediate Past President (and former Treasurer) of the Quincy Lions Club; and current Treasurer of the National Community Development Association. Sean is also a volunteer Cub Scout den leader. He resides in Quincy with his wife, Erin, and their three children.

David Baker is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas.  He received a BM in piano performance at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He then relocated to New York City, where he earned an MA in music education.  While in New York, he transitioned to playing the organ. His teachers included Claire Coci and McNeil Robinson. He served a number of Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches in NYC.  Similarly, in the Boston area, he has served a number of churches of various denominations. At present, he is organist/choirmaster of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Marlborough, which he has served for about 16 years. 

While in law school, he lived in Lawrence, MA.  He was (and still is) active in the Merrimack Valley AGO chapter, for which he served as sub-Dean and then Dean for two terms. For both the Merrimack Valley and Boston chapters, he has aided in the administration of the chapters’ websites, and also coordinated the Boston chapter’s young organists competition for several years. He welcomes the opportunity to further serve the chapter as registrar.