Frederick Teardo is Associate Organist at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in New York City, where he holds primary responsibility for service playing, accompanying the Choir of Men and Boys, and training the Junior Choir. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Teardo served as Assistant Organist at St. Thomas Church since September 2006.

Mr. Teardo received both the Master of Music and Master of Musical Arts degrees from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. At Yale, he studied organ with Thomas Murray and harpsichord with Richard Rephann. During Mr. Teardo’s time at Yale, he held the post of Yale University Chapel Organist, and later served as Assistant Organist at Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green in New Haven, CT. Mr. Teardo received his Bachelor of Music degree with Highest Honors from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he studied organ with David Higgs. His other teachers have included Stephen Roberts and Haskell Thomson. He has also studied improvisation with William Porter and Jeffrey Brillhart.

An avid performer, Mr. Teardo has won first prize in numerous competitions: the 1997 L. Cameron Johnson Competition, the 1999 AGO Region I Competition for Young Organists, the 2001 Augustana Arts/Reuter Competition, and the 2002 Wells Competition for Young Organists. Mr. Teardo competed as a semi-finalist in both the 2001 St. Albans International Organ Festival in England and the 2003 Dallas International Organ Competition. Mr. Teardo has performed across the United States, including such venues as St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Trinity Church Copley Square in Boston, and Princeton University Chapel. He has also been a featured performer at Regional and National Conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the 2004 National Convention of the Organ Historical Society, on the NPR program Pipedreams, and in a segment on the revived interest of the pipe organ on ABC World News Tonight.