Marcus Oldham is the new music director at  the Mercer Island United Methodist Church. Oldhamhas studied keyboard performance, musicology and music theory at the University of North Carolina, as well as music composition at Duke and Eastman School of Music. He has composed native flute pieces and performs contemporary and Baroque music.

He recently scored a film for the National Episcopal Church. His prior employment was at Heidelberg United Church of Christ in Thomasville, N.C., Overlake Park Presbyterian Church in Bellevue and St. Georges Episcopal Church in Seattle.

He has his own private studio where he teaches children, teens and adults.