Mary Preston is the Resident Organist and Principal/Lay Family Chair with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Curator of the Lay Family Concert Organ in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. She also serves as Director of Worship and Artistic Ministries and as Organist of King of Glory Lutheran Church in Dallas.
Ms. Preston has been presented in recital throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia to audiences responding with resounding enthusiasm and excitement. She has performed in such notable locations as the Riverside Church in New York City, the House of Hope in St. Paul, First Congregational Church in Los Angeles, the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, St. Nikolai in Leipzig, the Merseburg Cathedral, St. Hedwig Cathedral in Berlin, the Oliwa Cathedral in Poland, and the Liechtenstein Palace in Prague.
Ms. Preston has had the honor of playing the inaugural recitals on two magnificent new C.B. Fisk organs; one in the new Minato Mirai Concert Hall in Yokohama, Japan and the other in the new Benaroya Symphony Hall in Seattle, Washington.
Mary Preston has been a featured artist in numerous regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, including the 2004 national convention in Los Angeles, 2005 regional conventions in Colorado and Connecticut and will be featured in several regional conventions during 2007.
