Kevin Bailey is the Minister of Music at First Presbyterian Church, Stamford, where he is organist, choir director, and handbell director. He is a graduate of Augustana College (IL) and Indiana University, and is an alum of Westminster Choir College's summer conducting institute. He has achieved the Associate level of certification in the American Guild of Organists, and he is a member of the Greater Bridgeport and Fairfield West chapters. He is a regular recitalist and performer in Fairfield County, including First Presbyterian Church of Stamford’s annual Brass and Organ Christmas concert, with the New York Symphonic Brass. During the 2020 pandemic, he participated in an online concert with over forty organists from around the world, who performed the entire organ catalog of J.S. Bach in a 3-day marathon concert.
His principal teachers for organ have been Tom Robin Harris and Christopher Young, and he studied church music and improvisation with Marilyn Keiser. He has accompanied and conducted choirs at Anderson University (IN) and served as choir director and organist at several churches in Indiana before moving to Milwaukee in 2003, where he was Director of Worship and Music at Fox Point Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, for fifteen years.
Mr. Bailey is the Artistic Director of the New Haven Oratorio Choir, and he has accompanied and sung with a wide variety of ensembles and choruses. He toured with the Bel Canto Chorus of Wisconsin as a soloist. He lives in Stamford with his family.
