David
Sears holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from
the Peabody Conservatory and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University.
He is Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Merrimack College and is also a
composer. With his wife, Permelia, he was Co-Chairman of the Extant Organs
Committee of the Organ Historical Society. Dr. Sears has appeared in concert
throughout the Northeast as a soloist, with his wife in piano four-hand
recitals, and with his wife and daughter in family concerts.
Permelia
Sears is a graduate of Smith College and the Yale
University School of Music with a Master of Music in Pipe Organ Performance.
She is a past Dean of the Merrimack Valley MA Chapter of the American Guild of
Organists and has taught organ and piano through the Indian Hill Music Center
in Littleton, MA. Mrs. Sears has performed solo organ recitals across the
Northeast, played at several Organ Historical Society Conventions as well as in
family concerts with her husband and daughter. The Sears recently retired as
Ministers of Music at the First Congregational Church of Milford, NH and specialize
in playing historic 19th century tracker organs. They are proud
owners of a two-manual 1888 Hook & Hastings tracker organ.
