Guy Whatley

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Guy Richard Peregrine Whatley (born 9 April 1975) is an American organist and harpsichordist.

Guy Whatley was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in the United Kingdom. Guy Whatley was educated at The University of Bristol, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart where his teacher was Ludger Lohmann, and at Arizona State University where he studied organ with Kimberly Marshall.

His primary interest is Tudor organ music, his doctoral dissertation is "Toward a Performance Practice for Tudor Organ Music."

He has released two commercially available CD recordings with trumpeter Jean-Christophe Dobrzelewski: Triptyque, Trumpets and Organs and Triptyque Renewal. In 2008 their concert venues will include the Juilliard School of Music and The Costa Rica International Music Festival.

Guy Whatley is the Associate Director of Worship, Music, and Arts at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona. He is host of a radio show The Fabulous Fritts, on NPR member station KBAQ Phoenix. He is the Associate Conductor of the Arizona Arts Chorale.