[4] He has performed the complete keyboard works of William Byrd, John Bull, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederik Handel, and the complete organ works of Franz Liszt, Olivier Messiaen, and Herbert Howells.
Guy Whatley was educated at The University of Bristol, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart where his teacher was Ludger Lohmann, and at Arizona State University.
He has also studied with numerous private teachers including Maria Boxall, Jean Boyer, Marie-Claire Alain, and Christopher Stembridge.
He holds the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University.
In March 2021, he resigned his post as an Associate Editor for the journal Vox Humana after he submitted an article titled “Performing the Early Organ Works of Herbert Howells,” which was found to be plagiarized.