MusicSmith
Grant Smith is an organist and church musician based in Houston, Texas. He is a recent graduate of the organ master's program at Rice University in Houston where he studied with Ken Cowan. His recent competition successes include Second Prize in the 2025 St Albans Interpretation Competition, Third Prize in the 2024 Leipzig International Bach Competition, First Prize in the 2023 Hall Organ Competition in San Antonio, Texas, and First Prize at the 2022 Feith International Organ Competition in Blieskastel, Germany.
Grant received two bachelor’s degrees in music and civil engineering from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. A two-time winner of the university's concerto competition, he performed as featured soloist with the Cal Poly Symphony both on organ and piano.
Grant is currently organist and pianist at Christ Presbyterian Church in Houston and organist and pianist for the Houston Masterworks Chorus.
Olivier Messiaen: L'Ascension, III. Transports de joie - Grant Smith
Olivier Messiaen: L'Ascension, II. Alléluias sereins (organ) - Grant Smith
Franz Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H (organ) - Grant Smith
Because He Lives, Organ Instrumental - Grant Smith
Hallelujah, What a Savior! (Man of Sorrows), Organ Instrumental - Grant Smith
There Is a Fountain, Organ Instrumental - Grant Smith
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing, Organ Instrumental - Grant Smith
Holy, Holy, Holy (Nicaea), Organ Instrumental - Grant Smith
Robert Schumann: Canonic Etude in A-Flat Major, Op. 56 No. 4
J. S. Bach: Trio on Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 676
Felix Mendelssohn: Song without Words in A Minor, "Volkslied" Op. 53 No. 5
Louis Vierne: Toccata, Pièces de Fantaisie Op. 53 No. 6
J. S. Bach/Sergei Rachmaninoff: Gavotte from Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major
Alban Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Christopher Enloe: Exsultet (2023)
Joseph Ahrens: Orgelmesse (1945)
Isaac Albéniz: "El Puerto" from Iberia Book I
Nikolai Kapustin: Jazz Prelude No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor
Nikolai Kapustin: Jazz Prelude No. 11 in B Major
Robert Muczynski: Desperate Measures (Paganini Variations), Op. 48
Reger: Introduction and Passacaglia in D Minor, WoO IV/6 - Grant Smith
G. F. Handel: "For Unto Us a Child Is Born" from Messiah, Organ Arrangement by W. T. Best
J. S. Bach Trio Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Major, BWV 525
Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableaux in B Minor, Op. 39 No. 4
Rheinberger Organ Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 177 III Con Moto
Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 1st Movement
Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, Op. 35 No. 5
Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau in E-Flat Major, Op. 33 No. 7
Lyapunov Prelude No. 5 in A-Flat Major, Op. 6 No. 5
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66 I