https://www.collinwhitfield.com/home daily 1.0 2023-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1611324806586-6SJ7VASD77JQ60QN72OG/11895246_10155953807490291_8952419716737047234_o+%281%29.jpg Home PC: Shase Hernandez. https://www.collinwhitfield.com/about daily 0.75 2023-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1611611315397-JTBA1JV1B70892Z5C3VM/11230131_10155953807510291_424400554238033226_o+%281%29.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1611611289321-HVIX03XQAXH5YPUQQ8FA/headshot.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1611611315397-8ZY8X8PFB2F3WRCQYPYO/11895246_10155953807490291_8952419716737047234_o+%281%29.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1611328189096-D85TO4I5W6SC1EX3IK5K/35405006_10211436895573661_6367535100766191616_n.jpg About - Biography Hailed by Mason Bates as “a fine citizen musician,” Collin Whitfield is an accomplished composer, pianist, and organist based in Michigan. He has been the recipient of the James Highsmith Award for new orchestral music, first prize in the American Choral Directors Association Choral Composition Competition through Central Michigan University, and first prize in the Biennial Art Song Composition Competition at the San Francisco Conservatory. His music has been praised by librettist Nicholas Giardini as "beautiful, rapturous and unabashedly romantic, without any of the failings that so often accompany these qualities." Collin Whitfield is an active recitalist and frequently collaborates with his wife, soprano Erin Whitfield. He was recognized in the May 2021 issue of The Diapason as one of the 20 leaders under the age of 30 (20 Under 30 Class of 2021) for his technical achievements and creativity in organ and church music. He was awarded the 2017-18 Tacoma American Guild of Organists Scholarship and the 2020 Kent S. Dennis Memorial Scholarship. Collin Whitfield has a substantial background as a pianist and an accompanist. He has worked with the California Bach Society, Chora Nova, Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra, Saginaw Choral Society, and with noted conductors Vance George and Ragnar Bohlin. Currently, he accompanies for the Midland Center Stage Chorale at the Midland Center for the Arts. Collin Whitfield is the Director of Music and the Arts at First Presbyterian Church of Flint, where he serves as organist and choirmaster, and oversees creative programming for music, visual arts, dance, and drama ministries. Previously, he served as Director of Music Ministries at First Presbyterian Church of Saginaw and Second Presbyterian Church of Saginaw, and Director of Music and Organist at Mason United Methodist Church in Tacoma, Washington. He is a former Dean of the Saginaw Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Collin holds a Master of Music in organ performance from Central Michigan University, where he studied with Steven Egler. He received his Bachelor of Music in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Mason Bates and David Conte, and was awarded departmental honors in music theory. He is indebted to Paul Tegels, with whom he studied in Tacoma, Washington, for his foundational teaching in organ. https://www.collinwhitfield.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-03-04 https://www.collinwhitfield.com/compositions daily 0.75 2021-07-15 https://www.collinwhitfield.com/media daily 0.75 2021-07-15 https://www.collinwhitfield.com/orchestra daily 0.75 2021-02-20 https://www.collinwhitfield.com/orchestra/eclipse monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1613845441363-K16MZEUOMSUPL4WP9N0F/FullSizeRender.jpg%2B%283%29.jpeg Orchestra - Eclipse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1613849337850-9X90FBO00SNDF2BX5ZO9/Eclipse+orchestra+capture+2.PNG Orchestra - Eclipse Collin Whitfield and maestro Martin West, with members of the Berkeley Symphony, at the premiere in San Francisco Conservatory of Music on January 18, 2020. https://www.collinwhitfield.com/piano daily 0.75 2021-02-22 https://www.collinwhitfield.com/piano/hypnosis monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1613870878287-P17VP7DWFLKX8ZO9K1I5/caleb-steele-5t1lUr0NmHI-unsplash.jpg Piano - Hypnosis Photo by Caleb Steele on Unsplash. https://www.collinwhitfield.com/piano/chase-music monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1613870305912-1EYKBZ79L6X034TMLEL2/robin-pierre-dPgPoiUIiXk-unsplash.jpg Piano - Chase Music Photo by Robin Pierre on Unsplash. https://www.collinwhitfield.com/piano/suite-for-piano monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1613871819082-ZH3E7FGNAJNY02YQK541/421642_4298750462567_1928780087_n_4298750462567.jpg Piano - Suite for Piano Taken at Corona Heights Park in San Francisco, a favorite spot of mine where I would return for inspiration in my four years living there. https://www.collinwhitfield.com/piano/fantasy-for-piano monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1613872389566-XF5KIL79TZPLZHZWAMCI/285137_3758750042894_279310143_n_3758750042894.jpg Piano - Fantasy for Piano A smartphone shot from Crissy Field, San Francisco at twilight. The profound stillness and majesty of this and surrounding views of the bay inspired much of the energy in my Fantasy. https://www.collinwhitfield.com/organ daily 0.75 2021-02-22 https://www.collinwhitfield.com/organ/church-organist monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614038671619-HD2COOWHUPVYH5AVW50B/32087191_969513593208040_733638628143529984_o.jpg Organ - Church Organist The 70 rank Casavant Frères, Op. 3660 at First Presbyterian Church of Saginaw, where the work was premiered on May 24, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614038714670-QU5REMKB09G8O2F73AJH/Capture+2.PNG Organ - Church Organist Margaret Curry Rorke (1915-2000). Photo from Saginaw County Hall of Fame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614038764276-RSZNM0VDOH7G30XU1H6H/Church+Organist+text.PNG Organ - Church Organist https://www.collinwhitfield.com/organ/meditations monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614008826802-03AAYZI0WZM5FPRI6FCX/GieseckeOrgan.jpg Organ - Meditations The Edmund Giesecke organ at First Presbyterian Church of Evansville, Indiana. https://www.collinwhitfield.com/organ/pastorale monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1613858664506-O5ER75BBT2V8JKN1RUKQ/IMG_20190802_135251.jpg Organ - Pastorale Pictured above: the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge in Saginaw. https://www.collinwhitfield.com/chorus daily 0.75 2021-02-22 https://www.collinwhitfield.com/chorus/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614096410477-JS6NJWGENZMB0TBG8DOO/c1140d659d1ae1fc5db36c989bcf37941dfca9ee.jpeg Chorus - Because I could not stop for Death Pictured: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614889302549-VBSO9DJFFBC20QVYJ0MS/Because+I+could+not+stop+for+Death.PNG Chorus - Because I could not stop for Death https://www.collinwhitfield.com/chorus/remember monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614031293745-E51ZPEBSQ22790WQMRA7/p01h7v66.jpg Chorus - Remember A portrait of Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). https://www.collinwhitfield.com/chorus/o-mistress-mine-where-are-you-roaming monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614030060816-PSI4NBBFQOVA7DDV7VWP/856593-shakespeare.jpg Chorus - O Mistress mine where are you roaming? William Shakespeare (1564-1616) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614028560325-WUD3N9494X4U31VTZ0LN/O+mistress+mine+text.PNG Chorus - O Mistress mine where are you roaming? https://www.collinwhitfield.com/chorus/i-thank-you-god-for-most-this-amazing-day monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614021809047-WXY0DR6D79ATIW32QGWP/IMG_20200918_172024.jpg Chorus - i thank You God for most this amazing day Taken at Tahquamenon Falls in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614023039589-H5EAP1XTSMX8X865G47T/i+thank+you+god+text.PNG Chorus - i thank You God for most this amazing day https://www.collinwhitfield.com/chorus/five-songs-of-dickinson monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614096093106-3JJ9YZ62R6OLLJ38YEZH/Cole_Thomas_The_Garden_of_Eden_1828.jpg Chorus - Wild Nights Thomas Cole’s The Garden of Eden (1828), in reference to the final stanza of Dickinson’s text. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614030402660-7OBHONA6HI25FFT5VPFM/Wild+Nights+text.PNG Chorus - Wild Nights https://www.collinwhitfield.com/voice daily 0.75 2021-02-22 https://www.collinwhitfield.com/voice/church-organist monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614037956411-5YML8CABF9G9F0S5249V/32087191_969513593208040_733638628143529984_o.jpg Voice - Church Organist The 70 rank Casavant Frères, Op. 3660 at First Presbyterian Church of Saginaw, where the work was premiered on May 24, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614038325980-IULX44XMMYRAZ8WTUDPJ/Capture+2.PNG Voice - Church Organist Margaret Curry Rorke (1915-2000). Photo from Saginaw County Hall of Fame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614038531912-GBMWKJQREHHT3E7A5TMU/Church+Organist+text.PNG Voice - Church Organist https://www.collinwhitfield.com/voice/three-love-songs monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1614025581605-V69QKZ31X4ITVUYTEYPF/Erin-5908.jpg Voice - Three Love Songs These love songs are dedicated to my wife, Erin, a wonderfully talented soprano and an amazing life partner. https://www.collinwhitfield.com/chamber daily 0.75 2021-03-08 https://www.collinwhitfield.com/chamber/chorale-and-fanfare monthly 0.5 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/600add38b232b75f58bcaa29/1615308364127-0CQUM6OYX0W4J7D4NV7O/1979648_754482437904177_1913217885_n.jpg Chamber - Chorale and Fanfare International Low Brass Trio (Jeff Dittmer, horn; Gabe Cruz, trombone; Jess Rodda, tuba). https://www.collinwhitfield.com/chamber/sky-jaunt monthly 0.5 2026-02-16