Staff
Organist & Choir Master
Fred Bickel started learning piano at the age of four and began playing organ in churches and directing church choirs in 1957 while still in high school in Detroit. He studied with Gordon Young, organist of First Presbyterian Church, Detroit, from 1958 to 1960. In 1978, he passed the colleague examination of the American Guild of Organists and was awarded the Certificate of Colleague (CAGO). During the 1980’s he played piano for cabaret, dinner theater, and musical revues with Stage Right Productions in Detroit.
He and his wife, Anne, moved to Memphis in 2001. He has been both organist of Ravenscroft Episcopal Chapel in Tipton County and organist/choir master of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church since January, 2004.
In Detroit he was active as a CPA and presently owns a small accounting
practice in Midtown Memphis.