Faculty and Staff
Dr. Geoffrey Wilcken
Staff Accompanist, Kansas City
Kansas City
Geoffrey Wilcken is a prolific composer, conductor, organist, and pianist. He has written for ensembles of all sizes, including solo, oratorio, concert band, jazz, and liturgical forces. Commissions include Anthems for the Cross (2017) for St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Angel Noels (2009) for the Kansas City Fine Arts Chorale, and charts for jazz bands in the Kansas City metropolitan area. He composed the score for The Midwest in Panels (2014), a feature-length documentary about comic-book shops.
An accomplished church musician and jazz pianist, he is heard on the organ of historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in downtown Kansas City and has performed with the Kansas City Fine Arts Chorale, Musica Vocale, and the Moon City Big Band. He has served as artistic director of the Songflower Chorale, a semi-professional chamber chorus in Kansas City.
He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in composition in May 2018, a Master of Music in choral conducting under Simon Carrington at the University of Kansas, and a Bachelor of Music in composition from Iowa State University.