Rehearsal Accompanist, Jonathan Story

Jonathan Story serves as Organist/ Assistant Director of Music at Marvin Methodist Church in Tyler, TX, where he works alongside his wife, Kara, who serves as Director of Music and Fine Arts. A 2021 graduate of the University of North Texas with a Graduate Artist Certificate in Organ Performance, he is widely renowned for his mastery of both organ and piano. He has collaborated as a piano soloist with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, the Arkansas Philharmonic and the University of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and has performed at The White House in Washington D.C., Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey, and the inaugural gala concert of the University of Arkansas’ Faulkner Performing Arts Center. In June of 2016 he was featured as a guest artist on organ at the legendary Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and has also concertized in Vienna, Hallstatt and Kufstein, Austria, in Krakow, Poland, and across the United States. He was featured as guest artist on the annual June Kean Pipe Organ Endowment Service of Music at Evangel University in Springfield, MO, and the Boggs Ryan Jr. Memorial Organ Concert at Trinity Episcopal Church in Longview, TX, and as a pianist and organist at Carnegie Hall in New York in June on Concordia College’s 500 Voices for 500 Years concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. With nearly two decades of experience as a church musician, he blends classical training with a thorough knowledge of hymnology and Scripture, seeking to present a musical offering accessible to audiences of all ages and pleasing to God.