Brian P. Harlow, Director of Music & Organist

Brian Preston Harlow is Organist and Director of Music at St. Peter's. His responsibilities include the direction of six choirs, as well as the coordination of the Music at St. Peter's concert series. Mr. Harlow previously served as Associate Organist at St. James' Church, Madison Avenue and Assistant Organist at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Mr. Harlow holds the degrees of Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Musical Arts and Master of Music from Yale University School of Music, and the Bachelor of Music degree with High Distinction from Indiana University School of Music. His teachers include Martin Jean, Marilyn Keiser and Thomas Murray, organ; Gerre Hancock, William Porter and Jeffery Brillhart, improvisation; and Richard Rephann, harpsichord. From the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, he received the Robert Baker Scholarship and the Faculty Prize for exemplifying the ideals of the Institute. From Indiana University he received the Austin Caswell Award and a Distinguished Alumni Service Award Scholarship; he was also named a member of the Honors Division and an Arthur R. Metz Scholar.

Mr. Harlow has given a number of recitals in the United States and England. He also performs regularly in organ duet recitals and with other instrumentalists. He is the recipient of two awards from the American Guild of Organists: the award for the highest grades on the Associate exam and the S. Lewis Elmer Award for the highest grade on an upper level exam. Mr. Harlow serves on three committees of the Metropolitan New Jersey chapter of the American Guild of Organists and is the Regional Chair for Region II of the Association of Anglican Musicians. Mr. Harlow has recorded for Koch International Classics and BKM Associates and is also active as a teacher and composer.

Email him at bharlow@stpetersmorristown.org .

Edward Landin, Assistant Organist

Edward Landin is a student of Ken Cowan at Westminster Choir College. He previously studied organ with William Porter at The Eastman School of Music and with Thomas Bara at The Interlochen Center for the Arts. As a boy, Edward attended The Saint Thomas Choir School in New York where he received the T. Tertius Noble award as Head Chorister. Edward was recently Organist at Yardley United Methodist Church in Yardley, Pennsylvania. He has also served at Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches in Rochester, New York, and at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. 

Edward has given organ recitals at churches in Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York, and has upcoming performances at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue and The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan. Edward has had additional private study and has attended masterclasses with notable teachers such as Gerre and Judith Hancock, Diane Meredith Belcher Todd Wilson and David Higgs. Edward has also studied piano, harpsichord and keyboard technique.