Western Early Keyboard Association

John Walthausen has been heard across Europe, North and South America, and Asia as a keyboard soloist and ensemble artist and is accomplished as a recitalist in both Baroque literature and contemporary keyboard works. A Philadelphia resident, Walthausen appears regularly as a collaborative artist in his home city, as well as throughout the East Coast and the Mid-Atlantic region. In 2019, he co-founded the ensemble Filament with baroque violinist Evan Few and viola da gamba player Elena Smith. In 2012, he won first prize at the Pierre de Manchicourt International Organ Competition in Béthune, France, a competition devoted particularly to North German music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 2009 he was awarded first prize in the American Guild of Organists’ Regional Competition for Young Organists. Walthausen earned his bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College, and a master's degree from Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris focusing on organ. He studied harpsichord with Jörg-Andreas Bötticher and organ with Lorenzo Ghielmi at the Schola Cantorum of Basel, Switzerland where he was awarded a Master’s in Historical Performance. In addition to his concert appearances, Walthausen currently serves as Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA.