Charles Lindsey -- (Principal Accompanist, Organ,
Coaching, Voice) is the primary accompanist
for all ensembles and studio rehearsals and performances as
well as a founding faculty member in organ, piano, and
voice.
- Active accompanist, primarily for vocalists at
Virginia Commonwealth University.
• Organist and choirmaster of St Paul’s Episcopal Church,
Bristol Parish, Petersburg,
• Performed numerous organ concerts in the area and has
recorded a compact disc on the St Paul’s, Petersburg,
E.M. Skinner/Allen Renaissance organ. Titled On a Slow
Boat with Bach, the album showcases the organ in a
variety of musical styles including his own jazz
arrangement of Slow Boat to China, orchestral and
operatic transcriptions, and traditional organ literature
such as Bach’s Fantasy and fugue in g and Henri Mulet’s
Tu es petra (“Thou art the rock”).
• Bachelors of Music degree at the University of
Richmond, where he studied organ with Suzanne Bunting,
piano with Richard Becker, and voice with Anne Orey
Brown.
• His other teachers have included retired Virginia
Commonwealth University associate professor Larry
Robinson (organ), Helen Chance Hoffmann (piano), retired
University of Richmond associate professor Catharine
Kirby (voice), and retired Univ. of Rich. prof. and
Richmond Symphony Chorus conductor James Erb (vocal
coaching and accompanying).
• Music, particularly that of the church, runs in his
family: his mother, Bettie Lindsey, organist and music
director of several Richmond area churches, and her
sister, Jane Reeves, organist of his home church, were
the primary influences on Charles’s musical interest and
development
