Dr. Raymond Egan has degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music, Westminster Choir College, and the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music where he was voted the Outstanding Graduate in 1996 . He has also studied at the Washington Cathedral’s College of Church Musicians, and the Conductor’s Institute, Maestro Harold Farberman, Director. He has taught at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. His composition teachers have been Samuel Adler, John Corigliano, and Donald Crockett.

Dr. Egan is the former Music Director of The Delaware Singers, a professional chorus in Wilmington, Delaware. He has conducted premiere performances of his own music as well as that of John Tavener, Daniel Lentz, Milton Nascimento and Steven Bernstein.

Raymond Egan’s choral music has been performed throughout the United States and in Europe and Australia, in concert, on recordings, and at the American Choral Directors Association Convention, Los Angeles, 2000. It is published by Thomas House Publications (the Roger Wagner Choral Series) and Epiphany Music. His commissioned choral works include three choral works and a chamber vocal work for California State University at Los Angeles, and a mass for the Gettysburg College Arts Festival. He is the composer of the score for the film "Worlds of Von Braun," a United States Steel Television Special on the life of Werner von Braun.

As an organist, Dr. Egan has appeared with the Rochester Philharmonic and the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, and has performed organ recitals in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Washington, D. C., and California. As an accompanist, he has played for artists including Maestro Zubin Mehta, conductor Joseph Flummerfelt, and percussion virtuoso Steve Gadd. As a jazz pianist, he has appeared with artists including Lisa Rich and Joel DiBartolo.

Dr. Egan was the founder and Music Director of Musica Mundial, an ensemble of professional singers, dancers, and instrumentalists devoted to the performance of World Music of a spiritual nature. He has an interest in ethnomusicology, and has done field study in northeastern Brazil and in the Barcelona region of Spain. As a performer of African American Gospel Music, he has appeared with the Johnson/Montgomery Singers of Los Angeles.

Dr. Egan is in demand as a workshop presenter, and has performed and spoken most recently at conventions of the American Choral Directors Association in Reno, Nevada, 1998,the Music Teachers National Association in Los Angeles, 1999, and the CHURCH MUSIC 2000 Conference of the University of Northern Iowa. He has presented numerous workshops throughout the United States, and several to Los Angeles area chapters of the American Guild of Organists. He was represented, as an arranger, for an event at the Region IX Honolulu Convention of the American Guild of Organists in 1997.

Dr. Egan has held Organist/Choirmaster positions at several churches, most recently at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, California (1998-2002). He has accepted invitations to teach and perform at the American Guild of Organists National Convention in Philadelphia, 2002.

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