Biography

In addition to his post as University Organist, Lynn Kraehling, M.Mus., oversees organ study in the music department and directs the Men’s Schola Gregoriana. Along with Diana Silva, he is a founding member of the professional Catholic touring choir, Voci del Tesoro. He received a Master’s degree in Organ Performance from the Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor’s degree from Macalester College. Prior to his arrival at AMU he was Director of Music at St. John Vianney Church in Walnut Creek, CA. He sang extensively with semi-professional choirs in San Francisco and New York and studied organ with Delbert Disselhorst, Paul Manz, Edward Berryman and Frederick Swann. He is a member of the American Guild of Organists as well as The Hymn Society of America. He is also a member of the newly formed ensemble “Positively Baroque” of Southwest Florida.