John Sullivan
John Sullivan, piano, is a vocalist, pianist, organist, choir director, and teacher. A cradle Episcopalian, he spent his formative years as a boy chorister in the Choir of Men and Boys at Christ Church, New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he started piano lessons at the age of 5. He has played piano for musical theater productions since junior high school and continues to play in the orchestra pit in Wilmington’s historic Thalian Hall.
In addition to serving as the director of music at St. James Episcopal Church, John is a tenor in the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina’s Schola Cantorum, and is organist and occasional choir director at Temple of Israel. John has previously served the faculty of Cape Fear Community College where he directed the choir and taught voice. John sang for 12 years with the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys in San Francisco, and has also sung with the San Francisco Symphony and Symphony Chorus under Michael Tilson Thomas and Donald Runnicles.
John has a Bachelor of Music (Piano) from Ithaca College, a Master of Music (Choral Conducting) from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and a Master of Music in Music Education (Kodály Pedagogy) from Holy Names College in Oakland, CA. He has studied piano with Phiroze Mehta and Jeffrey Gilliam, organ with Robert Parkins and David Drinkwater, Chorale Conducting with Richard Westenburg, voice with Roland Bentley and Kathryn LaBouff. and Kodály Music Pedagogy with Ann Laskey, David Xiques, and Judit Hartyanyi.
