Organ Concert - Thomas Sheehan
Thomas Sheehan is the Cathedral Organist and Interim Director of Music at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC, where he is responsible for all the music at the cathedral, including both concerts and liturgical music. In this position, he has played for several high-profile civic events, including most recently the state funeral of Jimmy Carter. Prior to this position, he served on the music staffs of the Memorial Church, Harvard University; Saint Mark’s Church in Philadelphia, PA; and Trinity Episcopal Church in Princeton, NJ.
Tom holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University, where he was a student of Peter Sykes and wrote a dissertation on the organ works of his National Cathedral predecessor Richard Wayne Dirksen. He received both the Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, as a student of Ken Cowan. In 2016 he was named one of The Diapason’s “20 under 30,” a list of rising artists in the field of organ playing. He has performed as an organist throughout the United States, in Canada, and in Europe, including recital appearances in Reykjavík, Toulouse, and Montréal.
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