David A. Lincoln
Director of Music

David is a native of the Chicago area. He was raised in Evanston, Illinois, and then in Barrington, Illinois, where he lived primarily. David has enjoyed a rich diversity of worship and music traditions during his career, which has now spanned twenty years as a professional church musician.

Having held significant positions with the Episcopal, ELCA Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches, he possesses a wide and varied knowledge of the importance and influence of all traditions and approaches to sacred music that exist in worship today. Of greatest importance to him is to use the power of music to glorify God. David holds a Master of Music degree in Church Music from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he was named the 1990 recipient of the William H. Barnes Scholarship for organ performance. His graduate instruction in organ came from Wolfgang Rübsam. He received his undergraduate degree from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he studied organ with William Eifrig and Philip Gehring. David is also an active member of the American Guild of Organists, for which he has served as both Dean and Sub-Dean of the Northwest Suburban Chicago Chapter. He is currently the webmaster of the Fox Valley Chapter of the American Guild or Organists - www.foxvalleyago.org. David has held the position of Director of Music Ministries at First Presbyterian Church Wheaton since September 2003. David currently lives in Willowbrook with his wife, Nancy Purcell, a Chicago-area soprano. Together, they have a daughter, Alexis Nicole, born March 1, 2003.