Thomas Murray
Professor in the practice of organ and chair of the program in organ.
Professor Murray has been a member of the faculty since 1981 and was appointed University Organist in 1990. Successor to Charles Krigbaum and Robert Baker as the senior professor of organ, he teaches the Organ Literature Seminar and gives instruction to graduate organ majors. His performing career has taken him to all parts of Europe, to Japan, Australia and Argentina. As soloist with orchestra he has appeared with the Pittsburgh, Houston, Milwaukee and New Haven Symphony Orchestras, the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington DC and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra during their tour of Finland in 1996. The American Guild of Organists named him International Performer of the Year in 1986; as a recipient of this distinction he joined such luminaries as Marie-Claire Alain, Jean Guillou and Dame Gillian Weir. The Royal College of Organists in England awaded him an FRCO diploma honoris causa in 2003. During his years at Yale he has at times been active as a choral conductor and prior to his joining the faculty he was organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Episcopal) in Boston. In 2006, he was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Christ church Episcopal in New Haven. B.A., Occidental College.