I am a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists and make my living as Organist and Associate Director of Music at Marietta First United Methodist Church. I regularly present algorithmic compositions in Germany, with solo and ensemble concerts at Dreischeibenhaus, Kunsthalle, and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (Düsseldorf); St. Antonius Church (Oberkassel); Diakonie (Kaiserswerth); Sankt Peter Köln and at the Ambient Festival (Köln), the latter as part of the Basilica of the Apostles’ 1000th anniversary. In 2019, I recorded an album of solo and duet compositions with German media artist Phillip Schulze at ecclesial and academic sites in and around Düsseldorf. That album, Tastaturstücke Vol. 1, was released in May 2020 on the TAL Music label and is available through the TAL website: talmusic.com, by clicking here, or may be purchased in person at Sweet Melissa Records in the Marietta Square. In January 2021, I premiered his organ transcription of John Williams’s Superman Suite at the (Episcopal) Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta. Other fun recent performances include organ concerts at Higganum Congregational Church in Higganum, Connecticut; at Grace Episcopal Church in Gainesville; and two performances of “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Atlanta Concert Band at Temple Emanuel in Dunwoody, Georgia and at Marietta First United Methodist Church with a grand piano moved outside for the occasion. In October 2023, I was a guest clinician for a two-day “Other Keyboards” workshop for the Atlanta Area Suzuki Piano Association, teaching 28 children and 6 teachers on harpsichords by Tom Pixton and Adam Decker, and the Glatter-Götz Op. 39 pipe organ at Marietta First UMC. My peer-reviewed article “Why do the white keys sound the way they do?” has remained in the Top 2% of viewed articles on academia.edu for over four years.

The Glatter-Götz pipe organ at Marietta First United Methodist Church came out of the needs of the church to either renovate their sanctuary organ from 1966 or to design and build a new instrument. The church decided to purse the latter in 2018, and we embarked upon six years of discernment, planning, installation, and ultimately the deployment of the instrument in worship services, concerts, and pedagogy. You can read more about the organ and that process here.

At Marietta First, I run the training for the church’s Voice for Life program, the central curriculum of the Royal School of Church Music. In addition, I direct the Carol Choir (1st-2nd grades), the Genesis Handbell Ringers, and am co- director and organist for the Coventry Ensemble (6th-12th grade singers and non-vocal instrumentalists). This past summer, Coventry traveled to New England to serve various communities with music performance, liturgy, and food preparation. Highlights included the outdoor service at Cathedral in the Night in Northampton, MA; and Choral Evensong at The Church in the Wilderness in Killingworth, CT. Previously in my sacred music career, I served UCC churches in Connecticut as Director of Music/Organist.

I have taught music performance in schools (Montessori School of Greater Hartford, Paideia School); music history, theory, Ghanaian drumming, and harpsichord in colleges (Naugatuck Valley Community College, Wesleyan University); and I maintain a studio of organ/harpsichord and composition students. I have given scholarly papers and demonstrations at Oxford University, Emory University, Conservatoire de Lille, the 2014 American Guild of Organists National Convention, the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, and IRCAM, and have served on panels at the Northeast Chapter of SEM and the La Leche League Conference of Connecticut. I have given organ concerts in France, Germany, and at festivals in the United States; and have served as organist for Christian and Jewish liturgies in churches and synagogues throughout the states. I am the co-director of Quadratum, an auditioned early music and experimental choral group begun in 2012 focusing on unaccompanied vocal music of the 15th, 16th, and 21st centuries, and Ghanaian drumming and singing. I can be heard playing virginal on Weisser Westen’s self-titled album (2013, Apparent Extent), Michael Winter’s Lower Limit (2017, New World Records), and on The Uncertainty Music Series 2007-2017 compilation album.

I have had the great privilege of studying composition with Tom Johnson, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, Anthony Braxton, and Marti Epstein; organ with Ronald Ebrecht; music history and collaborative piano with Neely Bruce; conducting with Richard Gard, Louis Stewart, George Monseur, David Callahan, and Benjamin Rous; piano with Leah Brammer, Lisa Moore, Stephanie Plsek, and Ted Howe; Ghanaian Drumming with Abraham Adzenyah and John Dankwa; Carnatic Solkattu with David Nelson; early music with Jane Alden; ethnomusicology with Su Zheng, Mark Slobin, and Eric Charry; golf with Angus Guberman; and earthlore and archery with Mark Warren.

I live in Marietta Georgia with my spouse Janet. We have three children: Orion, Alban, and Zelig.