Landry’s journey as a musician began in the third grade at Hickory Creek Elementary School in McMinnville, TN. Hickory Creek was the only elementary school in Warren County with a full-time music teacher, Donna Campbell. Mrs. Campbell instilled a love of music in Landry from the very first class. Soon after, she helped his parents find a piano teacher and he began to take lessons.

 

In middle and high school, Landry put the piano aside and joined the band. There, he learned to play the clarinet and served three years as drum major. It wasn’t until his junior year when he began playing clarinet at First Baptist Church that he thought to play piano seriously again. The Music Director at FBC insisted he play the organ. The concept was laughable at first for Landry, but once he began, he fell in love.

 

Landry spent his college years at Tennessee Tech University where he majored in Music Education with an emphasis in clarinet. Throughout his first year, however, he continued to feel God’s call to pursue a vocational ministry in the church. This call helped him decide to transfer to Carson-Newman College where he spent three wonderful years working on a degree in Church Music and Organ. Once finished, he moved to Waco, Texas and completed a Master’s Degree in Church Music and Choral Conducting at Baylor University. Since then, Landry has had the great privilege to serve two incredible congregations: University Baptist Church in Austin, TX and his current congregation, River Road Presbyterian Church in Richmond, VA.