Rodney Gehrke is Director of Music at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, organist and choir director at San Francisco’s Temple Emanu-El, professor of organ at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and undergraduate organ instructor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Gehrke has performed and recorded with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and has also made two recordings of Mexican Baroque music with Chanticleer, with whom he toured the Southwest and Mexico in 1998. More recently he has performed with the American Bach Soloists as continuo organist and harpsichordist. He has also been heard with the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players and the conservatory's Blueprint Festival.

He can be heard on the CD collection "Historic Organs of San Francisco," a performance recorded in 1988 at the gala concluding recital of the Organ Historical Society (OHS) convention in San Francisco on the historic 1905 Los Angeles Art Organ (Murray Harris) in Temple Sherith Israel, where Mr. Gehrke served as organist and choir director from 1986 to 2006 and also supervised the first re-leathering of the virtually untouched instrument.

He also appears on the OHS collection “Historic Organs of Seattle” (2008), recorded on the Brombaugh organ at Christ Episcopal Church, Tacoma. In 1985, he performed the complete organ works of J.S. Bach in 12 recitals in Bach's 300th birthday year. At this church, St. Mark’s Lutheran, San Francisco, where he served as Director of Music and Liturgy for 29 years, he successfully supervised the 17-year process leading to the installation in 2006 of the first Taylor & Boody tracker organ west of Iowa, a 29-stop instrument.

His first organ teacher was his father, Hugo Gehrke. He also studied with Arno Schönstedt of Herford, Germany, David Dahl at Pacific Lutheran University, Lawrence Moe at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harald Vogel of the North German Organ Academy.

He holds an M.A. in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley.