Email: ikepittsmusic@gmail.com | ike@lsumc.net

Phone: (803) 432-3191

Isaac (Ike) Pitts, III is an instrumentalist, accompanist, composer, and arts advocate. He holds a B.A. in Church Music and Music Theory from Newberry College where he was the chapel organist for two years. Ike studied piano with Dr. Laurel Larsen and organ with the late Dr. Sally Cherrington-Beggs and Furman University professor Dr. Charles Tompkins. Since 2022, Ike has made music ministry his full-time vocation. Ike currently serves as organist and chancel choir accompanist for traditional worship and keyboardist for contemporary worship. In addition to his musician duties, Ike also assists with church’s children and youth programs.

As an instrumentalist, Ike performed pipe organ recitals at Edgefield Baptist Church [Edgefield, SC] and Grace Episcopal Church [Camden, SC] titled "Bringing Back a Dying Instrument" in 2011 and 2017, respectively. He would also go on to perform a similar concert at Lyttleton Street United Methodist Church in 2019 titled "Pedals, Pipes, and Pies."

As a composer, Ike's composition and arrangement career began when he composed the football halftime marching band shows for Newberry College's Scarlet Spirit Marching Band in 2008 and 2009. He also arranged the music for North Central High School’s Silver Knights Marching Band show in 2023. Ike's two biggest composition accomplishments thus far are his requiem “Let Your Light Shine,” which premiered in November of 2018 and his Christmas Cantata “Prince of Peace,” which premiered in December of 2022. Ike's compositions and arrangements are still used in services at Lyttleton Street.

Ike has also been a member of Lyttleton Street United Methodist Church since 1996 and currently resides in Camden with his beautiful wife Amber and two precious children, Anna and Jolly.