Virtual Recital: J. David Williams & Friends

December 8, 2020
12:40pm
Online via Zoom BK

J. David Williams, organ, Charles Williamson, tenor and Jessica Kimple, mezzo 

Born in the small west Tennessee town of Paris and having studied music throughout his childhood and early adulthood, J. David Williams relocated to New York City where he studied for his Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School. He continued his study at the Manhattan School of Music for the Doctor of Musical Arts in organ where he studied performance with John Walker and improvisation with McNeil Robinson.

With a keen interest in improvisation, he was a finalist in the St. Albans International Improvisation Competition in 1987, and a semi-finalist in the 1998 National Improvisation Competition of the American Guild of Organists. He has made recordings with the Boys Choir of Harlem, the U.S. Air Force, Pro Organo records and Sony/EMI. He served as Parish Musician at Christ-St. John Lutheran Church in West New York, New Jersey and Associate Organist at The Riverside Church, and was Director of Music t Progressive Temple Beth Ahavath Sholom in Brooklyn for 18 years.

At present, he is Director of Music and Organist at the historic Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn; Organist/Pianist/Music Director at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Manhattan.

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