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Bradley Welch
A native of Knoxville, TN, Bradley Hunter Welch attended Baylor University in Waco, TX where his teacher was Joyce Jones. He received the Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance magna cum laude in May 1997 in addition to winning the Deams Award for Outstanding Performance. In May 1999, he completed his Master of Music degree in Organ Performance at the Yale University School of Music/Institute of Sacred Music. Upon completeion of the Artist Diploma at Yale in 2000, he was awarded the Horatio Parker Memorial Prize, the most prestigious prize awarded by the Yale faculty. During his time at Yale, he also was awarded the Robert Baker Prize (given to an incoming organ student at Yale who is deemed to be in the top 1-2% of the nation's young organists), the Charles Ives Prize, and the Yale School of Music Alumni Association Prize.
He is the 2003 First Place winner of the Dallas International Organ Competition and was also awarded the Audience Prize for the second time having previously won it in 2000. In May 2001, he received the Master of Musical Arts degree to signify that he has completed all the classwork for the doctorate in performance at Yale. His teachers at Yale were Thomas Murray and Martin Jean. He currently serves as the Organist at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, TX. In 2005, he will be a featured artist at three conventions of the American Guild of Organists to be held in Hartford, CT, Tulsa, OK, and Grand Rapids, MI.
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