Tyler Canonico ’14

One of the East Coast’s finest and most dynamic concert organists and inspiring church musicians, Tyler A. Canonico is the Minister of Music and Organist at Market Square Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg, Pa., where he leads an expansive music program. The program includes the Market Square Ringers, the Sanctuary Choir, a Choral Scholars Program, and the Market Square Singers (a touring choir comprised of volunteers, amateur and professional, from the church and greater Central Pennsylvania community), and he is the Artistic Director for Arts on the Square.

Tyler is also an Adjunct Instructor of Music at Lebanon Valley College, where he conducts the seventy-plus-member College Choir. In addition, he is the Organist for the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and the founder and conductor of The Harrisburg Camerata. Tyler is the Dean for the Harrisburg Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and, in July, became the Director of the AGO National Committee for Pipe Organ Encounters. Previously, he was the Organist and Assistant Music Director at Christ Episcopal Church in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Assistant Organist at the Cathedral of St. Paul in Birmingham, Ala.

In 2011, Tyler was awarded first place in the American Guild of Organists/Quimby Region III Competition for Young Organists. He has performed Samuel Barber’s Toccata Festiva with the Lebanon Valley College Symphony Orchestra and numerous works with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. He is a frequent concert artist and guest conductor throughout the country. Tyler has performed for the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the National Association of Schools of Music, and at national and regional AGO conventions. At the 2012 national convention in Nashville, Tenn., Tyler’s performance of “This Little Light of Mine” by Connecticut jazz composer Dr. Joe Utterback thrilled the audience, especially the composer. His performance inspired Utterback to compose an organ arrangement of the well-known spiritual, “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho,” which he dedicated to Tyler.

Tyler graduated from the University of Alabama, where he received a Master of Music in Organ Performance and studied under Dr. Faythe Freese. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Music with a concentration in Organ Performance and Sacred Music from Lebanon Valley College. He studied organ and piano with Dr. Shelly Moorman-Stahlman and orchestral conducting with Dr. Johannes Dietrich. Tyler has also studied organ with Dr. Jason Kissel, and piano and organ with Ms. Kathie Metz.

Please visit www.tylercanonico.com for a list of upcoming concerts, videos, and audio recordings of live performances. Concert Artists Cooperative exclusively represents Tyler.

2024–25:

• MUE 106.01
• MSC 290.01
• MSC 151.01
• MUI 210.02
• MUI 211.01
• MUI 110.02
• MUI 111.01