Dr. Ray W. Urwin

Dr. Ray Urwin is the Director of Music at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church and is one of the most distinguished church musicians in the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Music (Organ) from Oberlin College and a Master. Mus. (Orchestral conducting), from SUNY Stony Brook, and Doctor of Musical Arts (Organ), from Yale University. He is the composer of two of the most popular hymns in the Hymnal 1982 (679, “Surely It is God Who Saves Me,” and S169, “My Flesh is Food Indeed”). He is nationally recognized for his other compositions, which are published by Oxford University Press, Boosey and Hawkes and others.