David Spicer is a unique blend of the sensitivity and expressiveness of the Romantic, the phrasing and clarity of the purist, the flair and technique of the virtuoso, and the creativity and registration of the master orchestrator. A native of Austin, Texas, Spicer received his first musical training from his parents and from Donald Firnhaber, Eleanor Page, Henri Pantillion, and Esma Beth Clark. He began playing for church services at age eight. During the junior and senior years of high school, he was appointed organist at Austin’s prestigious First Baptist Church. At seventeen, he won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with the renowned Alexander McCurdy. Under his tutelage, Spicer was to mature and develop his own style of recreating the masters. At age nineteen, Spicer became organist of Wayne Presbyterian Church, Wayne, Pennsylvania, where this recording was made. After graduating from Curtis, he continued to study privately with Dr. McCurdy, and also with Robert Elmore. His lifelong service to the church has culminated in his position of Minister of Music and the Arts at First Church of Christ in Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he also serves as a principal organizer and host to the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival and Competition / USA. Central to his work as a church musician, recitalist, conductor, arranger, accompanist and teacher, is the desire to communicate, through all facets of music, music’s ability to “wash from men’s souls the dust of everyday life.”