K e v i n   N e e l  enjoys a versatile career as organist, collaborative pianist, conductor, and singer. He was named in the Diapason Magazine's 2019 Class of "20 under 30" which recognizes young talents in the fields of organ and harpsichord performance, organ and harpsichord building, carillon, and church music.

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He has been heard at the organ in numerous venues including Symphony Hall (Boston), the Cathedral of St. Philip (Atlanta, GA), Methuen Memorial Music Hall, College of the Holy Cross (St. Joseph's Chapel, Worcester), Church of the Advent and Trinity Church (both in Boston). He also has appeared in numerous venues in the southeast. He also has appeared as organ and piano accompanist for multiple choral ensembles in the New England area including The Heritage Chorale from 2019-2025. Currently he serves as Accompanist for The Boston Cecilia.

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He is Director of Music and Organist at All Saints, Worcester where he directs the All Saints Choir (choristers and adults), manages special music events, oversees music education programs, plays the Rice Memorial Organ (IV/132 Aeolian Skinner Op. 909), and collaborates with Worcester-area music and arts organizations. While at All Saints, he has commissioned and premiered choral music of Grace Coberly and Zachary Wadsworth. As a conductor, he has been seen in venues across Massachusetts (including Mechanics Hall, Worcester) as well as in New York City. He also maintains a small studio of private organ students at All Saints.

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From 2016-2020 he co-artistic directed “et al.,” (formerly "The Brookline Consort") which he co-founded with soprano Carey Shunskis. et al. was a project-based choral ensemble of Boston-area professional singers. As a singer, he has also sung with the Marsh Chapel Choir, Emmanuel Music, Cantata Singers, and VOICES 21C.

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He believes in inspiring the next generation of musicians and has served the American Guild of Organists in several capacities, most recently as Director of the 2025 Pipe Organ Encounter Advanced in Worcester, Mass., the first Advanced POE held since the COVID-19 pandemic. He will serve in a similar capacity as Director of the POE-A in Hartford, Connecticut in summer 2026. He also serves as the Sub-Dean of the Worcester Chapter of the AGO and has previously served as the first National Convener of American Guild of Organists Young Organists (AGOYO) as well as on the National Nominating Committee.

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Previously he was Organist and Chapel Choir Director at Emmanuel Church, Boston from 2016-2021. He also served as the Parish Operations Manager at Emmanuel Church from 2019-2021 and was the Executive Director for Coro Allegro from 2016-2019. He holds a Masters of Sacred Music degree from Boston University in Choral Conducting with primary professors Ann Howard Jones, Scott Allen Jarrett, and Peter Sykes, and a Bachelors of Music degree from Indiana University in Organ Performance with primary professors Janette Fishell, Bruce Neswick, Jeffrey Smith and Todd Wilson. Kevin is originally from the Charlotte, NC area where he studied organ with David Lowry and Shirley Fishburne and piano with Patsy Surratt.