The 2023 Old West Organ Society Summer Series commences with a performance by Thomas Vozzella. Admission is free; donations are gratefully accepted in support of the Society.
Thomas R. Vozzella, DMA, is Director of Music-Organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Kansas City, Missouri and a Staff Organist at the Community of Christ World Headquarters, Independence, Missouri. He has served AGO as Dean (Black Hills Chapter), ACDA (Regional and National Chair for Music in Worship). Alliance, Augsburg, Abingdon, Selah, CanticaNOVA, St. James Music Press, Sheet Music Plus and Music Notes publish his compositions receiving five ASCAP Plus Awards. As a presenter/performer he has presented at state, regional and national ACDA and AGO Conventions, toured in twenty-six states, the District of Columbia and eleven countries, most recently Ukraine, Spain, and Germany. His choirs have sung for Tennessee ACDA, The White House by invitation of President and Mrs. George W. Bush, The Harlem Globetrotters, and received invitations for Kansas MEA and Texas ACDA conferences. Thomas holds degrees from the University of South Carolina, The University of Louisiana-Monroe, and Eastern Nazarene College. Additional work completed at The Royal School of Church Music-UK, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Nazarene Theological Seminary, with advanced conducting study at the Conductor’s Institute of South Carolina; in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Russia. Organ study has been with Lambert Brandes, John Ditto; masterclasses with Peter Hurford, Marie-Claire Alain, and John Obetz; organ improvisation with Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvard, Samuel Liégeon, Frédéric Blanc.