Moody, Michael Finlinson

LDS. American, born 1941 in Payson, Utah. He grew up in Spanish Fork, Utah, and served a mission in France and Switzerland from 1960–1963. He received Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from Brigham Young University, and in 1972 received a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. That same year he was named executive secretary of the Church Music Department. Later he served for twenty-five years as chairman of the General Music Committee of the Church, and he was chairman of the 1985 Hymnbook Executive Committee. He retired from his work at Church headquarters in 2005 to serve as organist at the BYU Jerusalem Center. He has also served as a bishop, stake president, and president of the Haiti Port-au-Prince Mission. He and his wife, Maria Toronto, live in Bountiful, Utah and are the parents of seven children.

Testimony, 137 (Music)