TODD BECKHAM, director, has performed as a singer, harpsichordist, organist and conductor in the United States and Europe, with Schola Cantorum of Boston, Capella Alamire, The Arcadia Players, Ensemble Kammerton at First Night Boston and with Wren Music in London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. He has also performed at the Boston Early Music Festival and the Bruges International Competition in Belgium. As a member of Capella Alamire under director Peter Urquhart, he has recorded the sacred music of Josquin Des Prez, Antoine Busnois and Nicholas Gombert for the Titanic and Dorian labels. At the Dartington Festival in Devon, England, Mr. Beckham was one of four countertenors cast in the modern première of the first opera written in English, Grabu’s Albion and Albanius, under the direction of Anthony Rooley. For four consecutive seasons, he was chosen to perform with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers at New York City’s Carnegie Hall under conductors Neville Marriner, Charles Dutoit, James Conlon and Andre Previn.

Mr. Beckham serves as the organist and choirmaster at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Milton, Massachusetts; as harpsichord tutor in early music for Mather House at Harvard University; as the organist and music minister for the Episcopal Church chaplaincy at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel, and as a music instructor at Milton Academy. He became the director of the Meridian Singers in September 2008.

Todd Beckham attended Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, where he studied music performance in organ. He graduated from Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Music degree and from Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with a master’s degree in combined keyboard performance in organ and harpsichord. He also earned a Master of Sacred Music degree in choral conducting from Boston University.