Rick Fox has been writing contemporary Christian music, musicals and drama for more than a quarter century.  He's served several  Bay Area protestant congregations as Minister of Music, Worship Leader and resident technology guru and is currently on staff at Walnut Creek United Methodist Church as Band Leader/Pianist
for Spirit Express, a lively and unique 5:05 PM contemporary
Sunday worship service with a twist (& shout)!  Fox also serves the congregation of Jubilee Tri-Valley in Livermore as pianist for Sunday morning services at 9 & 11 AM.

    Rick is a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he studied music composition at Oral Roberts University in the 70’s, under the
tutelage of the late Maestro Franco Autori.  His contemporaries at ORU included some famous names you may know: Kathy Lee Epstein (she later married Frank Gifford and worked with Regis) and renown evangelists Carlton Pearson and Billy Joe Daugherty.  

    While at ORU, Rick got to work with some big-name entertainers through his involvement with production of the Oral Roberts television specials.  That influence led him to leave the school, short of graduation (he later completed his Music Comp degree at North Texas State University in Denton, TX), to pursue a career as a professional entertainer. During that time, he logged appearances nationwide with showbiz legends as diverse as Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Doc Severinsen, Barbara (“the Beaver’s” mom) Billingsley, June (“Don’t you dare call me ‘Lassie’s mom’!”) Lockhardt, Roy Clark, Kathy Lee Gifford, Paul (Pee Wee Herman) Rubins, Ray Price, Sammie Smith, Kenny Rogers, Tower Of Power and Asleep At The Wheel, just to name a few.  

     Eight years later, Rick went to work for an advertising agency, writing and producing television and radio commercials, as well as writing, producing and performing client jingles.  Agency partner, Jeff Nauser, was teaching a marketing course at TU at the time so, encouraged by Jeff, Rick returned to college to finish his undergraduate studies, shifting his emphasis to audio/video production and journalism, earning his BS in Communication from the University of Tulsa in 1982.  Rick did his masters work a decade later while working as News Director at WGVU, the public television and radio stations affiliated with Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  

    Rick's career path is rich in diversity, with God preparing him every step of the way to perform the services FoxTrax offers today.  Right out of college, Rick took a job as a sales engineer with a pro audio/video company that catered primarily to churches and large music/multi-purpose venues, furthering his education in acoustic design and the nuances of large sound and video systems.  He continued to produce jingles and commercial advertising for the ad agency and started FoxTrax MultiMedia as a freelance venture, expanding those horizons.  One of his clients, a cable home shopping channel, recruited Rick as an on-air host, a job that later moved him to Dallas, and then into a job as a news reporter, anchor and, eventually, news director for KTEN Television in Denison, Texas, just north of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.  An award-winning journalist, Rick went on to manage other broadcast news operations in Texas, Oklahoma and Michigan.  He continued to service FoxTrax clients he picked up along the way.  

    Rick came to the San Francisco Bay Area in April of 1999 to produce an album project for an aspiring songwriter and he liked the area so well, he stayed.  He finished that project in June and went to work as Minister of Music and Worship Arts for the First Baptist Church of Richmond, CA.  In July of 2000, Salem Communications tapped his expertise, hiring Rick as Director of Production for Golden Gate Broadcasting. Golden Gate Broadcasting is San Francisco's premier Christian broadcaster, operating KFAX AM 1100, AM 1220 KFSB and BridgeRadio FM 100.7, all in the Bay Area.  Salem's revenues plummeted in the wake of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks and Golden Gate laid off nearly half of the staff, including Rick, setting the stage for expansion of FoxTrax MultiMedia.     

    Rick recently finished composing a new collection of Contemporary Christian music, “Mission Of Mercy".  The tunes are God-given, the majority originally written to underscore pastoral homiletic themes.  This recent body of work is an excellent example of one aspect of the services Rick provides in his Ministerial Support efforts at FoxTrax MultiMedia.   

    Rick has also proven himself "on the boards" as an actor and a director; his on-stage theatrical credits include portrayals of Professor Harold Hill in “The Music Man”, Tevye in “Fiddler On The Roof”, Sheridan Whiteside in “The Man Who Came To Dinner”, Herod in “Jesus Christ, Superstar” and Herr Zeller in "The Sound Of Music". His theatrical directing accomplishments include numerous local and regional theatrical productions. Additionally, Rick has produced and directed dozens of large-scale, Broadway style musical revues nationwide for SRO Productions and Cargill of New York.  SRO stages "Follies", utilizing amateur and volunteer professional talent, as fund-raisers for non-profits such as hospitals, Boys & Girls Clubs, Junior League and Service League organizations.  

    Rick is heavily involved in the community and has served on Boards Of Directors for Berkeley’s Center for the Education of the Infant Deaf (CEID) and Contra Costa Musical Theater (CCMT) in Walnut Creek.  He actively participates on a continual basis in producing classic Broadway musical theater for presentation at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek.  In his "spare time", Rick works with church choirs and drama groups (adult, children and youth), writing, producing and directing Contemporary Christian musical theater.