Todd Wilson/Anne Wilson

Duo Biography

Both renowned solo performers in their own right, Todd Wilson and Anne Wilson frequently combine their talents to present innovative programs of music for two players, utilizing the repertoire for various combinations of organ, piano and harpsichord. Educated at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Todd studied organ with Wayne Fisher and piano with John Quincy Bass; Anne studied organ with Roberta Gary, piano with Iloona Voorm and harpsichord with New York harpsichordist, Edward Brewer.

Collectively, the duo has won seventeen organ competitions, among them the French Grand Prix de Chartres and the Fort Wayne National Organ Competition won by Todd Wilson; the Fuller International Competition in the French Tradition and the Diane Bish International Organ Competition were won by Anne Wilson.

Todd Wilson is Director of Music and Organist at The Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian) located in Cleveland’s University Circle, an arts, education and medical center which houses Severance Hall (home of The Cleveland Orchestra where he is curator of the recently-restored E. M. Skinner organ), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Institute of Music, where he is Head of the Organ Department. Anne Wilson is Director of Music and Organist at Forest Hill Church (Presbyterian) in Cleveland Heights. She also teaches choral and instrumental music at Laurel School in Shaker Heights where she directs the middle school choirs and classical guitar ensemble. She is active as a collaborative pianist for area choral groups such as Apollo’s Fire, and in 2002 she founded the Greater Cleveland Classical Guitar Society. Also a composer, Anne’s compositions have been performed at such venues as the Chautauqua Institution, Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.) and the Aspen Music Festival.

Active members of the American Guild of Organists, they both hold the Choirmaster and Fellowship certificates from the Guild, the latter being the highest honor the Guild confers. As a duo they have been frequent recitalists for conventions of the AGO, and played the opening concert of the Guild’s Centennial Convention in New York City in 1996.

Mr. Wilson has recorded for the JAV, Delos, Gothic and Disques du Solstice labels. His releases on the JAV label are “Frank Bridge & Friends” recorded at St. Margaret’s Church, Palm Desert, CA, “George Thalben Ball & Friends” recorded at Rosary Cathedral in Toledo, Ohio, a recording of Music for Cello and Organ (with daughter Rachel Wilson) recorded at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois, and a new recording of American music recorded live in recital at the National Cathedral in Washington DC.

Current as of August 2006

Note: Anne Wilson and Todd Wilson are no longer married but continue to perform together.