Tate, Galen

Tate, Galen

Saint Thomas More RC Church, Darien, CT / Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

Galen is the Faculty Coordinator for our POE, Director of Music for Saint Thomas More Church in Darien, Adjunct Professor of Music and Accompanist at Sacred Heart University. In addition he serves on the accompanying staff for the United Congregational Church Bridgeport and New Haven Chorales, as well as the Hartt School of Music.

Galen received his Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance from the University of Arkansas and Master of Music in Organ Performance from the University of Tennessee. A frequent guest in organ concert series, he recently performed with the United Chorale and Orchestra (Bridgeport) as soloist in Poulenc's Organ Concerto and in solo recitals at the Cathedral of Saint Mary (San Francisco), St. Mary Church (Newport) and most recently in the More Music Concert Series (Darien) which he directs.

He has enjoyed accompanying numerous ensembles, including the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut, Stamford Chorale, Rockland County New York Choral Society, Lumina String Quartet and Sax In The City. The diversity of his keyboard talents has also led him to work with popular artists Joe Utterback, José Feliciano, Frank Patterson, Metropolitan Opera soprano Betty Jones, and with Broadway tenors David Gaschen and Frank Mastrone. For the past twelve years he was Choral Accompanist for Fairfield University, performing with the university Glee Club and Chamber Singers in churches and concert halls in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington D.C., and abroad to Italy, England, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria.

Galen has several times been a featured artist for National Pastoral Musicians Conventions, served as musical director for concerts benefitting the New Covenant House of Hospitality (Stamford) and as musical director for the annual memorial events of Voices of September 11th (New York).