Home Calendar Contacts |  Bio  |  Church Ministry  |  Recordings  |  Organ  |  Bagpipes  |  Teaching  |  Bach  | James D. Hicks holds degrees in music from the Peabody Institute of Music of Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, and the University of Cincinnati. He has also studied at the Royal School of Church Music and is an associate of the American Guild of Organists. Dr. Hicks was appointed Director of Music at the Presbyterian Church in Morristown in 1985, and conducts seven of the church's vocal and handbell choirs, supervises and performs in the concert series, teaches classes in music and liturgy, and serves as organist. He oversaw the enhancement of the sanctuary's seventy-eight ranks, 3,370 pipes Austin organ in 1996, and recorded a compact disk of organ music by twentieth-century American composers released by the Pro Organo label in 2003. James D. Hicks is a composer of organ, piano, choral, and handbell music, and has performed as an organ recitalist throughout the US, Europe, and Australia. A competing bagpiper and collector of Celtic instruments, Jim lives in Morristown with his wife, Bonnie, and three children, Virginia, Matthew, and Daniel.