Performance Experience
Professional Artist Management, Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists
(2003 - Present)
- Perform approximately 20 concerts annually worldwide;
- Closing Recitalist for 2015 Fort Worth Convention of the American Guild of Organists
- Featured artist at 2014 Pipedreams Live!, Broadway Baptist Church, Fort Worth, TX
- Featured artist at 2005 Tulsa, Grand Rapids (MI), and Hartford Conventions of the American Guild of Organists
- Significant venues include Notre Dame de Chartres, France; Washington National Cathedral; Los Angeles; Chicago; Dallas; Houston; Atlanta; Miami
- Featured artist at 2004 Pipedreams Live!, Meyerson Symphony Center
Concerto Appearances
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
April 2004
- Stephen Paulus—Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (World Premiere)
March 2003
- Barber—Toccata Festiva
- Poulenc—Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Tympani
March 2000
- William Albright—Bacchanal for Organ and Orchestra
Symphoria (Syracuse [NY] Symphony Orchestra)
November 2015
- Poulenc—Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Tympani
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
February 2005
- Jongen—Toccata from Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra
Dallas Professional ORCHESTRA
January 2010
- Jongen—Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra
Dallas Wind Symphony
December 2010
- John Wesley Gibson—Exaltation!; Christmas Presence
October 2010
- John Wesley Gibson—Exaltation! (World Premiere; Composed for Bradley Welch)
Grand Rapids (MI) Symphony Orchestra
June 2005
- Hansen—Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Harp
- Rheinberger—Concerto in F
Abilene (TX) Philharmonic
May 2007
- Jongen—Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra
- Poulenc—Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Tympani
Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra
October 2011
- Saint-Saëns—Symphony No. 3 (“Organ”)
October 2008
- Barber—Toccata Festiva
Teaching Experience
- Private Studio Organ Instructor/Coach (2001-present)
- Baylor University; Master classes and lectures, presenter at Alleluia! Conference (2005, 2012, 2014)
- Baylor University; Taught applied organ, performance class, and studio (lecture) class for studio of Dr. Joyce Jones while on leave (2007)
- Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology; Adjunct Lecturer in Church Music (Interim) (2005-2006)
- Yale University; Instructor: Organ (1999-2000)
- Yale University; Teaching Assistant: Hearing/Advanced Ear Training; Instructor: Keyboard Harmony, Ear Training (1999)
Other Collaborative Experience
2014: Led HPUMC Chancel Choir Mission Tour to Prague, Vienna, and Budapest
2010, 2013: Multiple performances with Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin, conductor
2012-present: Organ Duo concerts with Ken Cowan (Rice University; Houston, TX)
2009-present: Piano Duo concerts with Christopher Brunt (Dallas) and Jeff Daubenmire (OH)
2006-present: Flute & organ/piano concerts with Kara Kirkendoll Welch, flutist
2010: Duruflé Requiem with Baylor A Cappella Choir, Dr. Alan Raines, conductor
2007: HPUMC Chancel Choir Mission Tour to France; performances at Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris, L'église de la Madeleine (Paris), Notre Dame de Riche (Tours), and Cathédrale St-Jean de Leon; David R. Davidson, conductor
2005: Organist for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Festival Concert, Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas; Dr. Donald Neuen, conductor
2005: Duruflé Requiem and Lauridsen Lux Aeterna with Sam Houston State Chorale, Paul Salamunovich, conductor
Recordings
Loft/Gothic label
Broadway Baptist Church, Fort Worth, TX—Premier recording of the Cliburn organ
Casavant Freres, 5 manuals, 191 ranks (recorded in November 2005—released October 2006)
Pro organo label
Dynamic Duo, virtuosic music for organ duo; recording with Ken Cowan on Cliburn Organ at Broadway Baptist Church, Fort Worth, TX
(recorded in March 2016—released November 2016)
Church Employment
beginning September 2017: Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church; Dallas, TX; Artist-in-Residence
2014-2017: Christ Church (Anglican); Plano, TX; Artist-in-Residence/Organist
2009-2014: Highland Park United Methodist Church; Dallas, TX; Director of Music & Arts
2004-2009: Highland Park United Methodist Church; Dallas, TX; Artist-in-Residence/Organist
2003-2004: Highland Park Presbyterian Church; Dallas, TX; Interim Director of Music
2001-2004: Highland Park Presbyterian Church; Dallas, TX; Organist
1998-99: St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church; New Haven, CT; Co-Interim Choirmaster/Organist
1997-98: Trinity Episcopal Church; Southport, CT; Assistant Choirmaster/Organist
1993-97: St. Alban’s Episcopal Church; Waco, TX; Organist
EDUCATION
Yale University
Teachers: Thomas Murray and Martin Jean
- May 2007: Doctor of Musical Arts (all degrees in Organ Performance)
- May 2001: Master of Musical Arts
- May 2000: Artist Diploma
- May 1999: Master of Music
Baylor University
Teacher: Joyce Jones
- May 1997: Bachelor of Music
Awards
2003: Audience Prize and First Place, 2003 Dallas International Organ Competition
2000: Horatio Parker Memorial Scholarship, Yale University
2000: Audience Prize and Third Place, 2000 Dallas International Organ Competition
1999: Richard Paul DeLong Prize for Outstanding Contribution in Sacred Music, Yale University
Organizations
- American Guild of Organists (1991-present)
- Executive Committee, Dallas Chapter, American Guild of Organists (2003-2006)