Ken Watkins,
Associate Pastor

Ken Watkins is both a member and associate pastor. He formerly worked on the pastoral staff at Mississippi State University.

David Tomasacci, Choir Director

David Nelson Tomasacci is a composer and theorist from Shickshinny, Pennsylvania. He came to Columbus for graduate school, and first joined University Baptist Church as the choir’s tenor section leader from 2006–12. Since September 2016, he has had the privilege to serve as the director of music, and is overjoyed to have the opportunity to once again work and worship with the UBC family.

David comes from an artistic family; his mother Karen is a painter, his father Randy was trained by his father as a baker and chef, and his brother Lukas is an actor and writer. 

David’s first music teacher was his Grandpa Riccardo, a jazz trombonist (turned baker) who played with the Dorsey brothers and in the Army Band during WWII, and with whom David played trombone side-by-side for many years at their home congregation, Sunshine Full Gospel Church. 

David received his PhD in Music Theory from the Ohio State University in 2013, where he wrote his dissertation, A Theory of Orthography and the Fundamental Bass for the Late Oeuvre of Scriabin (say that five times fast). He holds the MM degree in Composition from OSU, and a BM in composition from Bucknell University. David is currently an adjunct instructor who has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Ohio State, Columbus State Community College, Capital University, and Kenyon College. As a composer, his music has been performed across the United States, and in Canada, Poland, and Romania.