Dexter Kennedy (M.M. organ ), a native of Grosse Pointe, MI, graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2012 as a recipient of both the Selby Harlan Houston Prize and the Theodore Presser Scholarship, and was also a member of Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society. He has been recognized as a "Rising Star" by the American Guild of Organists, and was most recently named one of three featured Young Artists for the 2012 Calgary Organ Festival, the lone American of the three. He has performed solo recitals throughout the country in cities including New York, Boston, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Naples, Vero Beach, and Washington, D.C., and abroad he performed at Haarlem's Bavokerk in the summer of 2012 as a part of the Haarlem Summer Organ Academy. He currently serves as organ scholar at St. Paul's on the Green in Norwalk, and will travel with the ensemble to England this coming summer. His principal organ teachers include James David Christie, Olivier Latry, Frederic DeHaven, and is currently studying at Yale with Martin Jean. He is thrilled to be a member of the ISM as well as the general Yale academic community, and intends “to use Yale's great resources to further myself both as a concert artist and scholar.”