Photo Credit: Leah Yetter, 2025
Bio
Organist Ted Babbitt has performed throughout the eastern United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. A recipient of awards in national and regional competitions, his growing list of performance venues includes: St. James Church, Piccadilly, London, England; The Hallé at St. Paul's, Manchester, England; The Lark Concert Hall, Balbriggan, Ireland; Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia; Christ Church Episcopal, Macon, Georgia; St. John's Lutheran Church, Stamford, Connecticut; St. Johns’ Episcopal Church, West Hartford, Connecticut; Wesley United Methodist Church, Worcester Massachusetts; and United Congregational Church, Holyoke Massachusetts.​
As a collaborative artist, Ted's performance partners range from solo artists and chamber groups to symphonic bands and choirs. In the spring of 2025, he toured the UK and Ireland as soloist with the Mercer University Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Brittan Braddock performing the Concertino for Organ and Wind Band by Thomas Trachsel. In 2023, Ted toured Connecticut with composer and soprano Sarah Marze in the Fresh Voices of Summer! recital tour performing on both organ and piano.
Ted placed third in the 2024 National Undergraduate Organ Competition held in Ottumwa, Iowa. In 2022, he received first prize in the L. Cameron Johnson Organ Competition in Connecticut and placed second in the Young Organists Competition in Columbia, South Carolina, also winning prizes for the best Bach performance and the best hymn performance.
Ted will receive a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, in the spring of 2026, where he currently studies organ with Dr. Jack Mitchener. He is a Jo Phelps Fabian Distinguished Music Scholar, the highest award bestowed to an undergraduate by Mercer's Townsend School of Music. Prior to his undergraduate studies, Ted studied with organist Scott Lamlein. He has performed in masterclasses for Stephen Darlington, David Higgs, Nathan Laube, Christopher Houlihan, Christa Rakich, Jonathan Moyer, 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. Previous positions include assistant organist at Christ Church Episcopal in Macon, Georgia; organ scholar at Saint John's Episcopal Church in West Hartford, Connecticut; and organist at the Church of the Transfiguration in Norfolk, Connecticut.