Photo Credit: Virginia Kemp
Bio
Ted Babbitt is an award winning concert organist who has performed throughout the eastern United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. ​He has performed in venues including: Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia; Christ Church Episcopal, Macon, Georgia; St. John's Lutheran Church, Stamford, CT; St. Johns’ Episcopal Church, West Hartford, CT; Wesley United Methodist Church, Worcester MA; United Congregational Church, Holyoke MA; St. James Church, Piccadilly, London, UK, The Hallé at St. Paul's, Manchester, UK, and The Lark Concert Hall, Balbriggan, Ireland.
Ted is a music education major at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, where he studies organ performance with Dr. Jack Mitchener. At Mercer, he is a recipient of the Jo Phelps Fabian Distinguished Music Scholarship. Ted began studying organ with Scott Lamlein and has performed in masterclasses for Nathan Laube, David Higgs, Christopher Houlihan, Christa Rakich, Jonathan Moyer, Christa Miller, Ray Nagem, Felix Hell, Stephen Tharpe, and Jeffrey Brillhart.​​
Ted currently serves as Music Director--Organist at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, in Warner Robins, Georgia. Previously, he served as the assistant organist at Christ Church Episcopal in Macon, Georgia; organ scholar at Saint John's Episcopal Church in West Hartford, CT; and organist at the Church of the Transfiguration in Norfolk, CT.
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As a competitor, Ted has placed highly in numerous competitions. Most recently, he placed third in the 2024 National Undergraduate Organ Competition held in Ottumwa, Iowa. Ted placed first prize in the 2022 L. Cameron Johnson Organ Competition in Connecticut, after having tied for second and winning the audience prize the year prior. Additionally, in March of 2022, Ted placed second in the Young Organists Competition in Columbia, South Carolina. At that competition, he won prizes for the best Bach performance, and the best hymn performance.
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Ted has collaborated with musicians ranging from solo artists to full symphonic bands and choirs. In the summer of 2023, Ted toured Connecticut with soprano Sarah Marze in the Fresh Voices of Summer! recital tour. This past spring, Ted performed the Concertino for Organ and Wind Band by Thomas Trachsel with the Mercer University Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Brittan Braddock, and toured this work through the UK and Ireland in the summer of 2025.