Kevin Gilchrist

Kevin Gilchrist is Technical Director and Head Voicer of Rosales Pipe Organ Services, Inc. He is a native of the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. As a youth he played the oboe and performed in various youth orchestras including one funded by the late J. Paul Getty. As an amateur astronomer he built his own telescope at the age of 14. He is also a keyboardist and has performed on the virginal that he constructed.

Since joining the Rosales firm in 1977, Kevin’s work has focused on flute and reed voicing, pipe scaling and general mechanical and technical design. In 1991 he traveled to Spain (Mallorca) and France on an organ study tour. He has also played and examined organs in Southern Germany, most recently the Riepp organs in the Ottobeuren Abbey Church.

Kevin was notably the first organ builder on the West Coast to utilize Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. Each of the Rosales instruments from 1989 to the present were drawn by Kevin using CAD. His largest project to date involved numerous responsibilities with the technical design, pipe scaling, voicing and tonal finishing of the organ at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Kevin is a member of the American Institute of Organ Builders, the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society.