Biography
Randall Mullin, a native
of Columbus,
Georgia, received both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Organ (the latter with
honors) from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, where he studied with Arthur Howes and Cherry Rhodes.
Other teachers have included Robert Twynham and Harald Rohlig.
In 1968, he was awarded the Richard Ross Organ Prize from the
Conservatory. In 1970, he was
appointed Associate Director of Music at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen,
Baltimore, where he remained until becoming Organist and Choirmaster of St.
David’s Church in 1975. From 1975
until September, 2003, Randall Mullin was Organist and Choirmaster at St.
David’s in Baltimore where he worked with a professional mixed choir, boys’ choir and girls’
choir and established a concert series which includes the fifteen organist
Baltimore Bach Marathon each February. He
is currently retired from church work, but is a freelance musician in Baltimore
and elsewhere.
Mr. Mullin has performed
throughout the country with recent recitals at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
and St. Luke’s Cathedral in Portland,
Maine. He has performed with the
Baltimore Symphony and numerous times with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society.
Randall Mullin has also been a member of the faculty of Royal School of
Church Music courses held in Princeton,
New Jersey; Charlotte,
North Carolina; and
Valley Forge
and Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania. In 1982 he was invited by the
Washington Chapter of the American Guild of Organists to play the “Symphony
for Organ and Orchestra” by Aaron Copland with the National Symphony for the
National Convention of the American Guild of Organists. This concert, and others
featuring Randall Mullin, have been broadcast throughout the country on National
Public Radio. In 1996 Mr. Mullin and the choirs of St. David’s Church were
performers for the regional convention of the Association of Anglican Musicians
held in Baltimore.
Randall Mullin’s work
has been featured on four Compact Discs; a Christmas recording produced by the
Baltimore Choral Arts Society, “St. David’s Sings,” a choral and organ
disc produced by St. David’s Church, Baltimore, “Midwinter,” a
choral recording produced by the Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore, and a new
release from Church of the Redeemer in 2008.
Randall Mullin Website