Tate Addis - In-Person Judge

Tate Addis currently serves as Organist at First Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina and as Accompanist and Assistant Director for the Asheville Symphony Chorus. His recent recital appearances have taken him to Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, and Philadelphia and he has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Kansas City, New Haven, Omaha, and Wichita. As a collaborative pianist, he has performed with violinists Daniel Hope and Benny Kim, tenor Vinson Cole, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Tate holds piano performance degrees from Wichita State University and the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance and organ performance degrees from Yale University and Oberlin Conservatory. His major teachers were Andrew Trechak and Robert Weirich and he has participated in masterclasses with Hung-Kuan Chen, Leon Fleisher, Stephen Hough, and Jerome Lowenthal.