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Theodore S. (Ted) Davis is an active organ and harpsichord recitalist as well as a chamber music performer and conductor based in Baltimore. As a soloist he has performed throughout the Eastern United States, as well as England and Japan. He has achieved national recognition in organ-playing competitions, and is an active composer with works printed by two publishers. Other musical interests have led to studies in a capella vocal music with the Western Wind of New York, as well as studies in vocal and instrumental music with the medieval and renaissance consort Sirinu of England, and baroque ensembles The Parley of Instruments, also of England, and Tafelmusik of Toronto. He has also served as assistant to the music directors in Baroque opera productions at the Boston Early Music Festival and the Amherst Early Music Festival.

Ted is organist and choirmaster at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland, a position he accepted in 2005 following a nearly 20-year career including previous positions in Richmond, Virginia and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He holds music degrees in organ performance from Birmingham-Southern College, choral conducting from Northwestern University, and harpsichord from the Longy School of Music (Cambridge, Massachusetts). He recently received his doctoral degree from the Peabody Conservatory.

As part of the music series Ted has established at St. Bartholomew’s, he conducts the church choir in choral evensong services and presents an annual “Bach at St. Bartholomew’s” series (music of J.S. Bach for organ and harpsichord). He also directs the newly-launched Choir School of West Baltimore, and is founder and music director of the concert Baroque Opera ensemble Opera Henriette.