Scott Montgomery - Organo Plano: Music for a Joyous Occasion, The Organ of Christ United Methodist Church, Plano, Texas (2013)

Scott Montgomery is Director of Music Ministries and Organist for Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church in Champaign, Illinois. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in organ performance, studying with Dr. Dana Robinson. Mr. Montgomery has won prizes in several competitions, including the 1997 AGO Region V Competition and the 2002 Arthur Poister National Organ Competition in Syracuse, New York. In 2006, he was winner of both the Lilian Murtagh Memorial Award (First Prize) and the Audience Prize of the American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artist Competition in Organ Playing (NYACOP), the first person to win both prizes in the history of the competition. Acclaimed both for his musical sensitivity and rock-solid technique, Mr. Montgomery has been a featured artist for national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the National Pastoral Musicians, and the Organ Historical Society. His performances have been broadcast on American Public Media’s series, Pipedreams.