Welcome to Dr. Audie Lee Rhodes' web site. I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us. Martin Luther .

Dr. Rhodes' Commemorative Postage Stamp celebrating 40 Years in Performance

Born in rural Kentucky, Dr. Audie Lee Rhodes, an inspirational concert pianist who has traveled and performed concerts worldwide, is returning to the road with a unique "worship experience" with his concerts in churches of all faiths. Although heavily influenced by southern gospel and country music of the region, he was trained as a classical pianist and later introduced to the pipe organ. With an insatiable thirst for music, he tutored with three piano teachers and two organ teachers concurrently. Each teacher had a genre that contributed to the diversity of music knowledge taught to him. Mrs. Margaret Shepard at the Preparatory School of Music in Cluthe Hall gave him the foundation of the classics. Lillian Crawford, a former nightclub and cocktail pianist, added 'flair' to his playing, and of course Dr. Harry Bell, whom he considered his greatest influence, taught him that music was a language of it's own and all music, whether classical or country and everything between, contributed equally to the world. He studied pipe organ with Dr. Ralph Waterman, again being influenced by the great masters, but also learned the techniques of the electric organ (as the were called in those days) by Dr. Emelio Forondo.

MUSIC WITH A DEDICATION:

As he was growing up listening to performances by great concert artists on the radio, Dr. Audie was also influenced by the music he heard played by the local musicians of Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee. Little did he realize that one day he would play piano and organ in the United States Marine Corps and later on international stages. The church has always been an important part of Dr. Audie's life and the music of worship. He considers himself fortunate to have been able to see music for the church in a different aspect when he was selected to attend studies of liturgical jazz under Dave Brubeck at Indiana University School of Music on a Methodist scholarship. Majoring in Piano Performance with a minor in organ and woodwinds at New England and digital music at Indiana University, his background in the church directed him to continue studies in Liturgical Music. As a concert artist, he was able to fulfill this desire in Poland while working in Europe.

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