Tim Smith

In July of 1999, Timothy Smith accepted the post of Organist-in-Residence, St. Paul’s Chapel of Columbia University, and in November, 1999, he was named University Organist. Since July, 1992, Smith also has served as Director of Music and Organist at New York’s famed Riverside Church. Smith was a member of the music staff of Trinity Church, Wall Street, where he served since 1989. A graduate of Yale University, Smith holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music. His organ studies have been with W. Lindsay Smith, Thomas Murray and John Walker. Dr. Smith is the recipient of the Theodore Presser Award and the Harry Benjamin Jepson Award from Yale University, and The Clair Cocci Award from the Manhattan School of Music. He has performed as organist with the Yale Philharmonia, The Manhattan School of Music Symphony, the Fairfield Chamber Orchestra and Period Academy, and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra.