Josh Dumbleton

A native of Oklahoma City, Joshua Dumbleton serves as Director of Music/ Organist at Calvary Episcopal Parish in Tarboro, NC. He is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University (BM), The University of Texas at Austin (MM), with additional doctoral studies at The University of North Carolina Greensboro (ABD). His teachers include Dr. Ron Davis; Dr. Frank Speller; Drs. Gerre and Judith Hancock and Dr. André Lash.

Mr. Dumbleton has served as an active recitalist in the Oklahoma, Texas, and Carolina regions. He has been a guest recitalist and lecturer/ presenter for many regional AGO Chapters including the Central NC Chapter; the Knoxville, TN Chapter and the Kalamazoo, MI Chapter. Mr. Dumbleton has participated in many organ performance competitions in the United States including the College Division of The Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition (1995 finalist- 2nd place); the Region VII American Guild of Organists (A.G.O.) Competition for Young Organists (1999 1st prize statewide; 2nd place regional); finalist in the Graduate Division of the William C. Hall Competition in San Antonio, Texas (2005) and finalist in the Rodgers North American Classical Organ Competition (2012). In 2012, Mr. Dumbleton was pleased to release a new recording of Marcel Dupré's "The Stations of the Cross", Op. 29.

Mr. Dumbleton has collaborated with many instrumentalists and choral groups over the years. Those include the Oklahoma Master Chorale; the Texas Choral Consort; the NC Master Chorale; the NC School of the Arts; the Concert Singers of Cary and the Tarboro Choral Society. He has also been a featured artist with former NC Symphony Conductor Grant Llewellyn and the Triangle Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Dumbleton just completed a program for flute and organ with Dr. Christine Gustafson, Professor of Flute at East Carolina University. A project in the near future includes a special recording of contemporary music for saxophone and organ.