Active recitalist, recording artist, scholar, and author David Pickering is Professor of Music and Associate Director for Music at Kansas State University. His students have excelled in competition and as church organists across a variety of denominational settings. His career as a performer has taken him across the United States and to Austria, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, and Japan.
Pickering’s four solo recordings focus on the organ music of American composers. His scholarly works are published by the Organ Historical Society Press (The Auditorium Organ) and Wayne Leupold Editions (Arthur Poister: Master Teacher and Poet of the Organ, Harold and Catharine, Leroy Robertson Organ Works). Articles and reviews appear in The American Organist and The Diapason.
Pickering earned degrees in organ performance and musicology from the University of Kansas and Brigham Young University. His teachers include Parley Belnap, James Higdon, J. J. Keeler, and Arlene Small. He has also pursued technical studies with pianist Sheila Paige and completed a Gokhale Method Foundations course in postural therapy with Julie Johnson.
He and his wife, Melinda, are the parents of seven children.