The Rev. Dr.
Kyle Babin

Rector

Father Kyle Babin is the 12th Rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd. He previously served as Assistant Rector of Saint Mark’s Church, Locust Street, in Philadelphia, and as Assistant Rector of St. Peter’s Church in the Great Valley in Malvern, Pennsylvania. A native of Texas, Father Kyle served as director of music and organist in a number of parishes before discerning a call to ordained ministry. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree (summa cum laude) from Rice University, a Master of Music degree from Yale University, with a certificate from the Institute of Sacred Music, a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Manhattan School of Music, and a Master in Divinity degree (cum laude) from Virginia Theological Seminary, where he was co-recipient of the Charles and Janet Harris award for demonstrated academic excellence and leadership ability. From 2017 to 2019, Father Kyle served as Director of Choral Music at St. James School, and he is an active member of the Association of Anglican Musicians. In his spare time, he loves reading, traveling, learning about historic buildings, cooking, photography, and walking his Cocker Spaniel, Beau.

Robert McCormick

Organist &
Director of Music

rmccormick@goodshepherdrosemont.com
(Mr. McCormick welcomes inquiries about our choirs, organ, and liturgical music. He is not involved in the artistic direction of the Main Line Early Music Series, so is unable to answer queries about series programming.)

Described by Choir & Organ as “indomitable and immensely gifted” and by The Macon Telegraph as “an artist of rare sensitivity and passion”, Robert McCormick is widely heralded by his colleagues as one of the finest concert and church musicians of this era.

Known for his creative and unique abilities in organ improvisation, Mr. McCormick was named a semi-finalist in the 2005 St. Albans International Organ Festival Improvisation Competition, the only American to merit that distinction. Concert appearances across the United States include Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, the Summer Organ Festival at the Riverside Church (New York), the Pittsburgh Organ Artists Series, the East Texas Organ Festival, Basically Bach Festival at St. Peter’s Lutheran (New York), the Great Organists series at St. John’s Cathedral in Albuquerque (New Mexico), the Atlanta Summer Organ Festival, and recent recitals and workshops for Harrisburg, PA, Little Rock, AR, and Tulsa, OK, American Guild of Organists chapters, among many others. He presented workshops in organ improvisation at the 2024 National Convention of the AGO in San Francisco. His concerto appearances with orchestra include Samuel Barber’s Toccata Festiva, Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Organ” Symphony, and Joseph Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante. He has been a featured artist and clinician at numerous conventions and conferences of the Association of Anglican Musicians and the Royal School of Church Music in America, playing recitals and services, and leading workshops in choir training, service playing, and organ improvisation.

He is an adjunct Assistant Professor of Organ at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in New Jersey, where he teaches both repertoire and improvisation, and was recently featured as organist on Westminster’s commercially released 30th Anniversary Recording of An Evening of Readings and Carols on the GIA label. As a composer, his choral and organ works are published by Encore (UK) and Selah, and have been performed throughout the U.S. and in Europe. His recording from St. Paul’s, K Street, We Sing of God, was released in June 2010 on the Pro Organo label. Choir & Organ’s review of the disc describes the choir as “one of the most responsive and adaptable choirs on the Eastern seaboard” and further states that “[McCormick] also shines at the organ.” Mr. McCormick is the newly appointed Organist and Director of Music at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont (Bryn Mawr), PA. This follows nearly eight years as Organist and Choirmaster of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Locust Street, Philadelphia, a parish deeply rooted in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. From 2008 to 2016, he was Director of Music at St. Paul’s Parish, K Street, Washington, D.C. Under his direction, the St. Paul's choirs performed at conventions of the AGO, the Organ Historical Society, and the Association of Anglican Musicians, and were heard nationally on the radio programs Pipedreams and With Heart and Voice. From 2001 to 2008 he served as Organist and Music Director at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York. He served for two years as sub-dean of the New York City chapter of the AGO and was co-chairperson of the 2014 National Conference of the Association of Anglican Musicians.

He holds the Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance, summa cum laude, from Westminster Choir College, studying with Robert Carwithen. During his time at Westminster he was also Assistant Organist at Trinity Church, Princeton. Further study in repertoire and improvisation was with McNeil Robinson.

Renee Barrick

Parish Administrator

rbarrick@goodshepherdrosemont.com

Parish Administrator Renee Barrick’s first career was as a church musician, organist, and choral director. After earning her Master’s degree in organ from the Juilliard School, she became Director of Music at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (RC) in New York City, where she directed a full choir of men and girls. Later, her path led to a second musical career with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Musical Instruments, where she programmed, produced, and occasionally played for concerts for museum patrons, departmental friends groups, and the general public. She coordinated all the administrative details and logistics for more than 25 concerts per season, as well as the landmark special exhibition “The Violins of Guarneri del Gesù,” which featured 25 Guarneri violins lent by owners around the world, including Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern, and Yehudi Menuhin.

Renee took early retirement from the Met and moved to Philadelphia in 2011, where she worked as both an organist and parish administrator at several area churches. An Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian herself, she was confirmed at Saint Thomas Church in New York City in 1988.

Mary Campbell

Financial Administrator

mcampbell@goodshepherdrosemont.com

Mary Campbell is a CPA who has had her own accounting practice in Philadelphia since January 2007. She provides her clients, primarily non-profits, with accounting, financial reporting, and bookkeeping services. Her clients also include three Episcopal parishes in Center City Philadelphia. Prior to starting her own business, Mary worked in both public accounting, specializing in auditing, as well as private industry. A native Delawarean, she received her B.S. in Accounting (cum laude) from the University of Delaware. Mary’s hobbies include the Phillies, traveling, running, and pet-sitting Beau, the parish’s honorary cocker spaniel in residence. She has completed nine marathons, and is working towards a goal of running in all fifty states. She has one son, Jonathan, who lives near Atlanta, and four cats who still live at home.

Ellen T. Charry

theologian in residence

Ellen T. Charry is the Margaret W. Harmon Professor Emerita of Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her books include Franz Rosenzweig on the Freedom of God, By the Renewing of Your Minds: The Pastoral Function of Christian Doctrine, Inquiring after God: Classical and Contemporary Readings (ed), God and the Art of Happiness, The Austin Dogmatics of Paul M. van Buren (ed), Sighs and Songs of Israel: A Commentary on Psalms 1-50. She is currently writing Who is the Israel of God: A Peace Proposal for Christianity and Judaism.

The Vestry

Donald McCown, Rector’s Warden (Class of 2025)
Brett Hart, Treasurer (Class of 2026)
Sarah Austen, Secretary (Class of 2025)
Melinda Burrows, Member at Large (Class of 2027)
Jennifer Dee, Member at Large (Class of 2026)
Anne Hallmark, Member at Large (Class of 2027)

The Rev. Dr. Kyle Babin