Clergy & Staff
The Rev’d Canon Barry E.B. Swain, SSC, Rector: Father Swain came to the Resurrection on 24 June 2001, the Feast of the Nativity of St John Baptist. He came from being Rector of S. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia, where he had been Rector from 1993, and was Curate before from 1988-1993. He served his title as Junior Curate of the Church of St Mary the Virgin in New York from 1986-1988, where he was also Mission House Director of the Church’s ministry to homeless women and children of the Times Square district. He graduated from The General Seminary here in New York in 1986, and was previously teaching Latin & Greek at the university level in Canada. Father Swain is the Superior-General of The Guild of All Souls, which is dedicated to advancing the doctrine of the Communion of Saints and prayer for the dead. He is also Spiritual Director of the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) in the Americas, and a member of the Master’s Council, and vicar of St John Fisher Chapter which covers New England and the Middle Atlantic. Father Swain was appointed to the Order of Our Lady of Walsingham by the Guardians of the Shrine in 2006 in recognition of his work for the Shrine in the US. Father Swain is Honorary Canon of St Peter’s Cathedral, Koforidua, Ghana
The Rev'd Sean Wallace
Honorary Assistant
David Enlow, Organist & Choir Master
David Enlow is widely known as a concert organist of great accomplishment and distinction, both in his native Canada and his adopted homeland the United States.
He is Organist and Choir Master of the Church of the Resurrection in New York City where he directs a professional choir. He is a member of the organ faculty of The Juilliard School in New York and Sub-Dean of the NYC Chapter, American Guild of Organists. November 2011 marks the release of Mr. Enlow's début recording Pater Seraphicus, a three-disc set of the major organ works of César Franck at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Times Square, on the Pro Organo label.
Mr. Enlow holds both an undergraduate and a Master's degree from The Juilliard School where he studied with John Weaver and Paul Jacobs. He also studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and with John Tuttle in Toronto.
He is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists, where he won the S. Lewis Elmer prize, and an Associate of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, where he won the Barker Prize. David Enlow has won several national performance competition first prizes including those of the Arthur Poister Competition and the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival USA.
His choir at the Church of the Resurrection performs over fifty mass settings each season, often with orchestra. While in Philadelphia he was Sub-Organist of St. Clement's Church, and an assistant at the famous Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, the world's largest playing musical instrument.
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