Thomas Faracco has enjoyed a musical career for over 50 years as a church musician and organist, a professional singer, and a collegiate voice professor. His undergraduate degree in church music and organ is from Westminster Choir College, where he studied with Donald McDonald and Eugene Roan. He then became the first full time Minister of Music at Concord Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware, conducted the New Castle Choral Society and taught at the Sanford School. Returning to Westminster for a Master’s Degree in Conducting and Voice Performance, he continued his voice studies at Indiana University and began performing as a tenor soloist with several orchestras and opera companies in the Midwest. After teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he joined the voice faculty at Westminster where he also chaired the department and was the Graduate Studies Program Chair before retiring in 2019. Since then, he has taught at the University of Delaware and will be teaching at West Chester University next Spring, filling in for sabbatical leave. Active in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), he was the Eastern Region Governor and was the program chair for the 2000 National Convention in Philadelphia. After serving Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church in Society Hill for 23 years, he recently retired from that position. He is currently Dean of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and has enjoyed substituting at several local churches.