Guy Richard Whatley (born 1975) is an American

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and

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. He is a specialist in medieval keyboards, sixteenth and seventieth century European music, and nineteenth century German organ music. He is widely known as a continuo player, and as an accompanist. He has performed on historic organs all over Europe and the Americas, and has performed at prestigious venues all across the world. He has performed at such venues as the Arizona Bach Festival, the Connecticut Early Music Festival, and the Costa Rica International Festival of Music. He has performed the complete keyboard works of William Byrd, John Bull, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederik Handel, and the complete organ works of Franz Liszt, Olivier Messiaen, and Herbert Howells. Guy Whatley was born in

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. Guy Whatley was educated at The

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, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst,

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where his teacher was

Ludger Lohmann Ludger Lohmann (born 1954 in Herne) is a highly acknowledged organist. Lohmann studied school and church music, musicology, philosophy and geography in Cologne. He studied organ with Wolfgang Stockmeier and harpsichord with Hugo Ruf. He took ...

, and at

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. He has also studied with numerous private teachers including Maria Boxall, Jean Boyer,

Marie-Claire Alain Marie-Claire Geneviève Alain-Gommier (10 August 1926 – 26 February 2013) was a French organist, scholar and teacher best known for her prolific recording career, with 260 recordings, making her the most-recorded classical organist in the worl ...

, and Christopher Stembridge. He holds the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University. His primary interest is Tudor

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and his doctoral dissertation is "Toward a Performance Practice for Tudor Organ Music." He has also published a number of editions of music for trumpet and organ. In March 2021, he resigned his post as an Associate Editor for the journal ''Vox Humana'' after he submitted an article titled “Performing the Early Organ Works of Herbert Howells,” which was found to be plagiarized. He has released three commercially available CD recordings with

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Jean-Christophe Dobrzelewski including: ''Triptyque, Trumpets and Organs'' and ''Triptyque Renewal'' and ''Eternal Source of Light Divine''. They have played all across Europe and the United States.

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