Cynthia Roberts-Greene

Cynthia Roberts-Greene is former Music Director/Organist of Temple Emanu-El in Sarasota, where she served for 26 years. For over two decades she was the Music Director and Organist of Siesta Key Chapel, where she founded the arts series and assisted the organ committee in the acquisition of a new Schantz pipe organ in 2018.

Cynthia has been a recitalist in many churches on the West Coast of Florida and in the Southeast since an early age. She is also a composer, arranger, singer, and accompanist.

Cynthia earned her Master of Music degree in Organ Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York where she was a student of the renowned pedagogue Russell Saunders. Her undergraduate degree in organ was earned from Florida State University with Dr. Michael Corzine. Additional areas of concentrated study included harpsichord and composition.

She has performed concerts in St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue, the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, St. Lawrence, Jewry Church in London, and others.

Her composition, Memorial Requiem, written in memory of her brother David Owen Roberts, a victim of the Vietnam war, has been performed by Church of the Redeemer choir, soloists, and chamber orchestra directed by the composer for the All Souls’ Day liturgy.

Cynthia is now a staff singer at St Boniface Episcopal Church in Sarasota and assists as organist at Christ Episcopal Church in Bradenton.