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Eric Wall is Assistant Professor of Sacred Music and Dean of the Chapel at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.  He is the seminary musician, oversees the worship life of the campus, and teaches courses in church music and worship. He is also the Conference Center Musician in Montreat, where he spends the summer season overseeing the music for Summer Worship, directing the Summer Staff choir, and offering concerts and lectures. He was previously Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church, Asheville, North Carolina. He lives in Austin with his wife Mary; their son, Tristan, lives in Charlotte.

Eric has contributed to Call to Worship, the journal of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Office of Theology and Worship, to The Christian Century, and to the Hymn Society journal The Hymn.

He has served on the conference faculty for PAM’s Worship and Music Conference at Montreat a number of times and directed that conference in 2005.  He worked for the 2017 PAM Professionals Gathering and served on the conference faculty in 2018 at the Mo-Ranch Conference.  He has also co-led music at Montreat Youth Conferences and been a Hymn Festival presenter for the Hymn Society. He has taught as an adjunct at Columbia Theological Seminary and served as a music and worship consultant in various congregational settings. He received a Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance in 1991 and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting in 1993, both from Florida State University.  

Eric holds memberships in the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, and the American Guild of Organists (Dean of Western North Carolina Chapter, 2009 – 2011). This is his second appearance in the Holbrook Organ Series. He played a splendid concert in April of 2016.