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Adam Cobb, D.M., is an organist and composer from Madison, Alabama. He holds a Doctor of Music in Organ Performance from The Florida State University, as well as a Master of Music from F.S.U and a Bachelors of Music in composition from Samford University. He has been appointed as the Assistant Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Church in Raleigh, NC. He will start in late June.
 
As a performer, Dr. Cobb has performed in venues across the United States and abroad. Most recently, he played a recital on the Midmer-Losh organ at Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, which is he largest organ in the world. In 2022, He accompanied both the University Choir and the Schola Cantorum of the School of Theology on residencies in the U.K., and will accompany the University Choir on their tour to Ireland in May 2024. In 2019, Dr. Cobb presented Olivier Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur in churches across the Southeast, with performances in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana.  In 2018, he attended the Haarlem International Summer Academy, studying various repertoire with world-renown organists. Dr. Cobb has also studied privately, on two occasions, with Dame Gillian Weir.

As a composer, Dr. Cobb has had several pieces programmed in academic and church settings. His settings of the MagnificatNunc Dimittis, and Preces/Responses have been programmed for several services of Evensong, in All Saints Chapel at Sewanee, at St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral in Tallahassee and Episcopal Church of the Advent in Tallahassee. His song cycle Journey of Hope for soprano and piano was commissioned by Dr. Christina Villaverde.

Adam Cobb is the winner of the Alabama Federation of Music Clubs Organ Scholarship Contest and winner of the Myrtle Steele Jones Organ Competition. Adam is a member of the Huntsville chapter of the American Guild of Organist. He is also an alumnus of the Pi Sigma and Epsilon Iota chapters of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia National Fraternity. Adam is also an alumnus of Alpha Psi Omega National Theatre Honor Society.

 
Adam was born in Opelika, Alabama and moved to Madison with his family in 1999. He started piano at the age of five, organ his senior year of high School and voice in college. His teachers have included:
 
Piano: Dr. Ronald Shinn, Susan Hoop, and Michael Giminez,
 
Organ: Dr. Iain Quinn, Dr. Jim Dorroh, Dr. Michael Corzine,
and Dannie Walther
 
Voice: Dr. Chuck Chandler, Dr. Christina Villaverde, Rebecca Worthington, and Dr. Sharron Lawhon.
 
Adam has played in masterclasses or personal visits with world-renowned organists: Dame Gillian Weir, Thomas Murray, Peter Conte, Monte Maxwell, Craig Williams, Christian Lane, John Ferguson, John Schwandt, Chris Houlihan, Olivier Latry, and Joyce Jones. He has also had the opportunity to play some of the world's largest pipe organs including the Wannamaker Organ in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania.
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