CharlesCallahan

Charles Callahan (b. 1951), prolific American composer and organist and native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Additional study with Flor Peeters in Mechelen, Belgium, and at Solesmes Abbey, France. He has taught at Baylor University, Middlebury College, Lafayette College, Catholic University, and Rollins College, and has served as organist and choir director for churches in Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Many guest conducting appearances with choir and orchestra. As a concert organist has made recordings on new and historic instruments and performed recital tours throughout America and Europe.

He is the composer of over 300 works for organ, piano, chorus, solo voice, chamber ensembles and orchestra, and the author of two books on American organ building. He is active as an organ consultant, recitalist, recording artist and workshop leader throughout the USA. The recipient of numerous awards and commissions, including ASCAP, American Guild of Organists, Harvard University, and others, he presently is the Director of the Vermont Conservatory of Music and Organist and Choirmaster of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Middlebury, VT.

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