Music at Midday: Rees Taylor Roberts, organ

Take a break from the busy workweek and enjoy a brief, free recital by organist Rees Taylor Roberts at First Congregational Church in downtown Columbus.

A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Rees Taylor Roberts currently calls Cleveland, OH home, where he works for GRAMMY®-winning Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra. He holds degrees from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and Arizona State University, where he studied organ with Kimberly Marshall, Jeannette Fishell, & Jeffrey Smith, and piano with Baruch Meir. While a student at Indiana University, Roberts sang in the school’s new-music ensemble, NOTUS, under the direction of Dominick DiOrio, where he premiered over two dozen works as a singer and accompanist. He can be heard on the discs What is Ours: Music for an America in Progress, and Sa Ináng Báyan: To the Motherland.

He has worked as one of the organ scholars at Church of the Advent (Boston), the Chautauqua Institution in New York, Saint Paul’s K Street (DC), and a number of Royal School of Church Music summer training programs. He was a finalist in the National Competition in Organ Accompaniment, and is a member of the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Anglican Musicians. He was a featured recitalist on the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, and has performed in Kentucky, Ohio, Arizona, Oklahoma, Indiana, Rhode Island, and Arkansas.

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