Thatcher Dow Lyman

Thatcher Lyman graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance in 2005. He also received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Oberlin College. As an undergraduate, he studied organ with Haskell Thomson and James David Christie. He has played in master classes for Daniel Roth, Jean Pierre LeGuay, Marie-Louise Langlais, and Lionel Rogg, and his former teachers include Angela Salcedo and Lucinda Mosher. Thatcher recently won First Prizes in both the Cleveland Chapter and Region V levels of the AGO Regional Competition for Young Organists in 2005.

An early music enthusiast, Thatcher is a founding member of the five-voice ensemble Uncloistered, which has performed concerts in Cleveland, Iowa City, and Oberlin. In 2005, Uncloistered traveled to England to study with John Potter, formerly of the Hilliard Ensemble, and Anna Maria Friman, of Trio Medieval. There, Thatcher joined the choir of York Minster as a paid Alto Choral Scholar. In 2006, he received a Master of Arts degree in Ensemble Singing with distinction from the University of York.

Thatcher is now pursuing a Master of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music, where he studies organ with Hans Davidsson. Director of Music at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Webster, New York, he also sings regularly with the Schola Cantorum of Christ Church in Rochester. When not involved in musical activities, he may be found playing with cars, cycling, or attempting to prove obscure mathematical formulae.