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)