Frank Corbin has been Director of Music at Ascension Memorial Episcopal Church in Ipswich, MA since 2011. He was formerly Director of Music Ministry at Assumption College in Worcester, MA for 21 years, where he taught piano, music theory and organ, oversaw the college’s liturgical music program, and served as director of Humanarts, the college’s series of concerts, exhibitions, art history lectures, and literary readings.

Frank Corbin graduated from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in 1980. He completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree and Performer’s Certificate at the Eastman School of Music in 1989 and holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati (M. Mus.), and Concordia University, Montréal (Diploma in Advanced Performance Studies). He has studied organ with William Porter, Bernard Lagacé, Roberta Gary, and Russell Saunders, piano with Sedmara Rutstein and Robert Shannon, and harpsichord with Arthur Haas. A native of Springfield, Tennessee, he attended the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville during high school, where he studied organ with Peter Fyfe and piano with Enid Katahn.

Corbin has been a prize winner in national and international contests. His recording of works of César Franck, including The Three Chorals, appears on the Centaur label. He is also heard on the recording, Great Organs of Worcester, a 2-CD recording project he spearheaded featuring sixteen historic pipe organs in the city of Worcester, MA.

An active member of the Ipswich community, Dr. Corbin currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Ipswich Education Foundation as treasurer. He is also founder of the Community Through Music Youth Chorus directed by Lucas Callahan. As director of the music program at Ascension, he works to create opportunities for young performers through its Sunday Morning Musical Tributes program and to offer choral, organ, and piano concerts to Ipswich audiences each year.