Recently retired as Professor of English at Clayton State University, Dr. Bill Pasch has also been an organist and avid student of the instrument since becoming organist at his home church in Toledo, Ohio, at age thirteen. His teachers included E. Harold Leslie Peart, James Francis, and Gertrude Faber. He has played for services (including festivals) at large churches such as the Cathedral of St. Philip and the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Atlanta, at Roswell United Methodist Church, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Savannah, and at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Toledo, Ohio, as well as at many smaller churches in Ohio, Massachusetts, and Georgia. He has also played at Weaver Chapel (at Wittenberg University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree), at St. Anne’s Church in Augsburg, Germany, and at Spivey Hall, where he remains on call as organist for academic convocations. He currently serves as organist and choir director at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, on Cascade Road in SW Atlanta. A member both of the American Guild of Organists and the American Composers Forum, he is also an active church music composer, arranger, and lyricist. Both his hymn texts and music have won recognition in national publications and competitions. He also enjoys singing, and is a member of the newly-founded local ensemble Griffin Choral Arts.