Bradley Brookshire is an Assistant Conductor and Harpsichordist at the Metropolitan Opera. In addition to his duties as Organist and Director of Music at PAUMC, he is Director of Graduate Studies at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College/SUNY. He has conducted two benefit concerts for New York City Opera, as well as serving as Assistant Conductor at Glimmerglass Opera several times. A candidate for the Ph.D. in Musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center, he has just published "'Bare ruin'd quires, where late the sweet birds sang': covert speech in William Byrd's 'Walsingham' variations," in Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity (Ashgate). Currently, he is writing a book-length study of the pianist Edwin Fischer. Brookshire appears frequently with orchestras in New York City, most recently with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Mark Morris Dance Group as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. His harpsichord recording of J.S. Bach’s French Suites became a New York Times “Critic’s Choice” of 2001, and his recording of Bach’s Art of Fugue was honored by Goldberg magazine with a European distribution contract. His new recording of Bach’s Six Partitas will appear in the coming year.