Mary Preston

Mary Preston is the Resident Organist and Principal/Lay Family Chair with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In August 2007 she began serving as Director of Music and Organist of University Christian Church in Fort Worth. Mary has been presented in recital throughout the United States, Europe and Asia to audiences responding with enthusiasm and excitement. She has performed in such notable locations as the Riverside Church in New York City, First Congregational in Los Angeles, and the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, along with inaugural recitals on the Fisk organs in the Minato Mirai Concert Hall, Yokohama, and the Benaroya Symphony Hall in Seattle. She has been a featured artist with the Oregon Bach Festival, and National and Regional Conventions of the American Guild of Organists. Along with organ concerti with the Dallas Symphony, she has performed with the L.A. Philharmonic, the Nashville and Denver Symphony Orchestras, and an inaugural concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Recognized as an international recording artist, Preston's recordings on the Lay Family Concert Organ on the have met with rave reviews and have been featured on radio's Pipedreams. Mary Preston is represented by Truckenbrod Concert Artists. She and her husband Joe have been married for 38 years.