Frank E. Perko III, Director of Music
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Colorado native Frank E. Perko III has been Director of Music at First Plymouth since 2006.  Before returning to Colorado in 2002, Frank served as consultant for the new, $785,000 Noack tracker pipe organ, installed in Lakeside Presbyterian Church, Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.  Perko holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Organ Performance from Colorado State University, and a Master of Music Degree in Organ Performance, with cognates in both choral conducting and music theory, from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.  He has served as organist and  music director in various churches and has taught classes and private organ instruction.  He also owned and maintained his own large and active piano teaching studio while living in Ohio.  Frank began his studies of the organ at age nine and was performing professionally by age  eleven.  He was a regular performer at the Mighty Wurlitzer organs in the Paramount Theater, and the Organ Grinder Pizza Restaurant in Denver. He continues to perform in concerts around the country in churches and concert halls, both at the classic organ, and at the Mighty Wurlitzer theater organ.  He has won numerous organ competitions throughout the United States, and placed first in the Strader International Organ Competition in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1996. 

Ben Ehrlich, Associate Director of Music
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