Brad Hughley began playing the organ at age 15 in his home town of Meridian, Mississippi. His formal training includes an undergraduate degree in Sacred Music from Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ, 1997, summa cum laude), where he accompanied the 80-voice Chapel Choir, and a Master of Sacred Music degree from Emory University (Atlanta, GA, 2000). Brad also earned a Master of Arts degree in Musicology from Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, 1999). His principal teachers were Joan Lippincott and Timothy Albrecht, with additional study with William Porter. Hughley is currently Organist / Choirmaster of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Atlanta, where he oversees an extensive music program with six choirs and manages a growing concert series. Under his leadership, the choirs at St. Bartholomew’s have been invited to perform for the 2003 national convention of the Association of Anglican Musicians, and the 2005 Region IV Convention of the American Guild of Organists. Hughley is also a recitalist, performing throughout the United States, and on historical instruments in England and Germany. Brad has also appeared as accompanist for Emory University’s Service of Lessons and Carols, the Emory Concert Choir, the Atlanta Sacred Chorale at Spivey Hall, Atlanta Choral Artists, and the Westminster Chapel Choir on a mid-Atlantic tour. He often collaborates as continuo player with the period-instrument ensemble New Trinity Baroque, artists-in-residence at St. Bartholomew’s, and appeared as soloist with them in a performance and recording of Handel organ concertos and Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit. He also accompanies the choirs and is an occasional lecturer at Riverwood High School in Sandy Springs, where his wife Amy is choral director.