Jeremy David Tarrant - Widor: Organ Symphony No. 7; Litaize: Lied; Vierne: Impromptu, Clair de lune, Toccata (2018)

Jeremy David Tarrant is increasingly recognized for performances hailed as elegant, warm, communicative, and powerfully artistic. Since 2000, he has served as Organist and Choirmaster of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Episcopal), Detroit, where he served as Assistant Organist from 1994. In April, 2007 he was seated as Canon Precentor. He is the founding director of the Cathedral Choir School of Metropolitan Detroit.

A student of the American organist and pedagogue Robert Glasgow, Jeremy David Tarrant is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music where he earned the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in organ performance and sacred music. His other instructors include James Kibbie, Betty R. Pursley, and Corliss Arnold. He has had additional coaching with Lynne Davis.

An active concert organist, Jeremy David Tarrant has performed widely in North America. He frequently appears with the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings and performs in conventions of the American Guild of Organists. His European debut as an organ soloist occurred in 2008 with a recital in the Cathédrale de St. Etienne in Meaux, France; in 2011, he played the closing recital of International Organ Week in Dijon, France. He has been featured in the Pine Mountain Music Festival, presenting three solo recitals in Michigan’s upper peninsula in 2012.

In July, 2014, he conducted the St. Paul Cathedral Choir during its residency at Chichester Cathedral in England. The tour included concerts and services in Canterbury and South­wark Cathedrals, as well. On the choir’s two CD releases, Nowell Sing We, and Evensong for All Saints, he conducts and plays solo organ works.