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Named one of The Diapason magazine’s top “20 under 30” young organists in 2020, Grant Wareham is active as an organist, choral conductor, and pedagogue. He serves as Director of Music and Organist at First Unitarian Church of Dallas. In a previous engagement at Derry Church in Hershey, he oversaw the restoration and reinstallation of Aeolian-Skinner Op. 1132, originally installed in 1950 at Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, Conn. —work highlighted in The Diapason and The American Organist.

Wareham recently appeared as featured soloist with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, has performed at 2022 and 2017 Organ Historical Society National Conventions, and at notable venues such as Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City. A champion of new music, he commissioned and premiered Karim Al-Zand’s Toccata for Organ in 2022. Winner of First and Audience Prizes at the 2017 Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition in Hartford, Conn., he was also a semifinalist in the 2019 Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition.

Wareham earned an MM degree at Yale University, where he studied with Jon Laukvik and Thomas Murray. He earned his BM degree at Rice University, where he studied with Ken Cowan, graduating cum laude and with distinction in research and creative work.