Todd Wilson

Trinity Artist-In-Residence

Todd Wilson Becomes Trinity Artist-In-Residence

Cleveland's Trinity Cathedral is pleased to announce the appointment of Todd Wilson as organist and artist-in-residence. He will work closely with Dr. Horst Buchholz, Canon for Music and Worship, and play at regular worship services, as well as in Music & Art at Trinity programs. Wilson is a native of Ohio and has become one of the leading international concert organists. He chairs the organ department at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

One of America's leading concert organists, Todd Wilson was previously professor of Organ at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music and director of music and organist at The Church of the Covenant. He is also organ curator of the recently restored Norton Memorial Organ (E. M. Skinner, 1931) in Severance Hall, and was recently named house organist at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, where he will play the newly restored 1915 Aeolian organ.

Wilson has been heard in concert in many major cities throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, including concerts at Symphony Hall (Birmingham, UK), Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Cleveland's Severance Hall, Dallas' Meyerson Symphony Center, and Uihlein Hall in Milwaukee.

Wilson's latest CDs were released in 2005. One is on the JAV label, featuring a live recital of American music from the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. The other is entitled "Live from Severance Hall" and is a concert of music for trumpet and organ with Michael Sachs, Principal Trumpet of The Cleveland Orchestra.

Wilson received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and completed further study at The Eastman School of Music. He has won numerous competitions, including the prestigious French Grand Prix de Chartres, the Fort Wayne Competition, the Strader National Scholarship Competition and the national competition sponsored by the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.

Having grown up in the men and boys choir of Trinity Church in Toledo, the choirs and music of the Anglican tradition have been an influential part of Wilson's musical life. During 1978-79 he served as a visiting assistant in music at Canterbury Cathedral in England under Dr. Allan Wicks. At the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Mr. Wilson directed one of the longest-running choirs of men and boys in continuous existence in the United States. Mr. Wilson frequently presents workshops on English choral and organ music, as well as on service playing. An active interest in improvisation has led to his popular improvised accompaniments to classic silent films. He has been organ clinician at the Evergreen Conference (for Episcopal church musicians) in Colorado, twice at the Montreat Conference on Worship and Music, at the National Music Camp at Interlochen and for the Presbyterian Association of Musicians.

Cleveland audiences can hear Wilson play a recital at the Trinity Brownbag Concert on Wednesday, December 9 at 12:10 pm. The concert is free with a freewill offering; more information here.