Calgary Organ Festival and Symposium takes place September 29–October 3

THE DIAPASON

The Mount Royal University Conservatory announces the Calgary Organ Festival and Symposium, September 29–October 3. The schedule will feature performances by Alan Morrison, David Briggs and Margaret Phillips, and a keynote address by Marva Dawn.

Three young artists will perform in the festival. Christina Hutten (Canada) received a bachelor’s degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, and a master’s degree at Arizona State University, studying with Kimberly Marshall. Jean-Willy Kunz (France) studied with Louis Robilliard at the Lyon Conservatory, with Mireille Lagacé at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, and is completing a doctorate with John Grew at McGill University. He won a first prize at the Lynnwood Farnam competition in 2004, and a second prize at the Grand Prix de Chartres competition in 2008. John Morabito (USA) is a senior at the Eastman School of Music in the organ studio of David Higgs, and the harpsichord studio of William Porter. In 2009 he won first prize at the Rodland Organ Competition.

The symposium will offer lectures, workshops, and presentations on all aspects of the pipe organ profession today, including keyboard pedagogy, the business of the music profession (copyright, contracts), and the organist as church musician.

Venues and organs include Mount Royal University, Wyatt Recital Hall, (Létourneau); University of Calgary, Eckhardt-Grammatté Hall, Rozsa Centre (Ahrend); Knox United Church (Casavant); and Grace Presbyterian Church (Casavant). For information: Neil Cockburn, Head of Organ Studies, Mount Royal Conservatory, 403/440-5648; .

Articles, Reports, and Reviews

by author (boldface) and subject

Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival/USA. See Spicer.

American Cathedral in Paris. See Ebrecht.

American Guild of Organists. See Palmer.

Andrews, Colin. New Recordings. July 10-11

Apple, Warren. New Organ Music. Mar 13, Apr 12-13, Nov 15, Dec 12-13

Arias, Enrique Alberto. Arthur C. Becker: Sonus Epulantis. Jan 15-17*+

__________. Gregorian Chant Review. May 8-10

Bach, J.S. See Crowell.

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. See Latona.

Becker, Arthur C. See Arias.

Bethards, Jack. Frederick A. Lake obituary. Sept 6

__________. Organ Design and the Kraft Music Hall. Oct 18-21*†#

Book Reviews. See Collins, Hartman, Marigold, Ogasapian, Speller.

British Organ Music Seminar. See McAfee.

Bulgarian Organs. See Levi.

Butera, Jerome. In Memoriam Wesley Vos. July 2

Butera, Jerome, William Osborne, J. Bunker Clark, Haig Mardirosian, and Ronald E. Dean. Robert Noehren: In Memoriam December 16, 1910-August 4, 2002. Oct 14-17

Canadian Organists. See Hartman.

Carillon News. See Swager.

Cavaillé-Coll. See Zuiderveld.

Choral reviews. See McCray.

Coleberd, R.E. Stevens of Marietta: A Forgotten Builder in a Bygone Era. June 18-21*†#

Collins, John. Book Reviews. Feb 8, 10, Nov 11-12

__________. New Organ Music. Dec 12

__________. New Recordings. Mar 11-12, July 11, Oct 10, 12

Continuo. See Crowell.

Crowell, Gregory. New Organ Music. Mar 13, Nov 14

__________. New Recordings. Apr 10, May 12, June 12, Nov 13, Dec 10, 12

__________. Registration and Sonority in J.S. Bach's Continuo Practice. Feb 19-21*†

Dickinson, William. University of Iowa Institute for Sacred Music 2002. Aug 20-21*

Distler, Hugo. See Palmer.

Ebrecht, Ronald. Lenten series at the American Cathedral in Paris, 1949 and 1950. Dec 20-21*†

Editor's Notebook. Jan 2

Ellis, Laura. New Organ Music. Aug 13, Sept 14, Oct 13

Ferko, Frank. An Extraordinary Musical Odyssey: Paul Jacobs' Messiaen Marathon. Apr 14-15*

Fisk Opus 116. See Palmer, Zuiderveld.

French Organ Music Seminar. See McAfee.

Gault, Robert. 1878 Sagar Organ, Central Presbyterian Church, Eugene, Oregon. June 16-17*†

Geffert, Johannes. Toe or Heel? Evidence of Baroque Practices. July 15-17+

Gell, David A. New Organ Music. Jan 12, Feb 14, Aug 13-14, Sept 14, Oct 12-13

Gregorian Chant Review. See Arias

Hardwick, Peter. New Organ Music. Apr 12, May 13, June 12-13, July 12-13, Aug 12-13, Nov 14-15, Dec 12

__________. New Recordings. Nov 12

Harpsichord News. See Palmer.

Hartman, James B. Book Reviews. Feb 10, Apr 8, June 8, 10, Aug 8, 10, Sept 12, Oct 10, Nov 10-11, Dec 8, 10

__________. Families of Professional Organists in Canada. May 14-15

__________. Seven Outstanding Canadian Organists of the Past. Sept 15-17

Holland, Jon. New Recordings. Nov 13-14, Dec 10

Huestis, Herbert L. Tech Lines. June 15#, Aug 14, Dec 22*

Hughes, Sarah Mahler. New Organ Music. Feb 13-14, June 14, July 13

Jacobs, Paul. See Ferko.

Johnson, Brent. Martin M. Wick obituary, Aug. 6*

Johnson, Jane. See Palmer.

Kuhlman, William. Organ Teaching in the Small Liberal Arts College. Dec 17-19*

Landrum, Mary Fisher. Sewanee Church Music Conference. Dec 22*

Latin American organs. See Wyly.

Latona, Peter, Robert Grogan, and Geraldine M. Rohling. The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Upper Church Organ Renovation Project, Goulding & Wood, Inc. Mar 21-23*†

Lawrence, Arthur. 2001 Summer Institute for French Organ Studies. Oct 22-25*†

Leaver, S. Christopher. Augustana Arts - Reuter Undergraduate Organ Competition. June 14*

Letters to the Editor. Feb 2, Apr 2, May 2, June 2, July 2, Aug 2, Sept 2, Nov 2

Levi, Sabin, and Hristo Buzhev. Organs in Bulgaria. Sept 18-21*†

Marigold, W.G. New Recordings. Jan 10, 12, Feb 12-13, Mar 12-13, Apr 10, 12, May 11-12, June 10, 12, Aug 10-12, Sept 12, 14, Nov 12

__________. Book Reviews. May 10-11, June 10, July 10-11, Dec 10

McAfee, Kay. British Organ Music Seminar. Feb 16-18*

__________. French Organ Music Seminar 2001: Paris Week, July 2-9, 2001. Mar 18-20*

__________. French Organ Music Seminar 2001: Alsace Week, July 10-14, 2001. Apr 18-19*

McCray, James. Music for Voices & Organ. Jan 8, Feb 8, Mar 8-10, Apr 7-8, May 8, June 8, July 8-10, Aug 7-8, Sept 10, 12, Oct 8, 10, Nov 8, 10, Dec 8

Messiaen Marathon. See Ferko.

Music for Voices & Organ. See McCray.

Nelson, Lee. New Handbell Music. Jan 14, Mar 13, May 12-13, Aug 14, Nov 15

New Handbell Music. See Nelson.

New Organ Music. See Apple, Collins, Crowell, Ellis, Gell, Hardwick, Hughes, Robinson, Schou, Smith.

New Recordings. See Andrews, Collins, Crowell, Hardwick, Holland, Marigold, Speller.

Nigerian music. See Sadoh.

Noehren, Robert. See Butera, et al.

Oaxaca. See Wyly.

Oberlin College. See Palmer, Zuiderveld.

Ogasapian, John. Book Reviews. Feb 10, 12, Mar 10-11

Organ Design. See Bethards.

Organ Historical Society. See Wechsler.

Organ Pedagogy. See Kuhlman.

Organ Recitals. Jan 25-26, Feb 28-29, Mar 28, Apr 28-29, May 27-29, June 28, July 24-25, Aug 28-29, Sept 32-33, Oct 32-33, Nov 28-29, Dec 28-29

Organ Restoration. See Wyly.

Overall, Jason. An Interview with Robert Powell. Nov 18-21*

Palmer, Larry. Drawings by Jane Johnson: A Retrospective and an Appreciation. Aug 18-19*

__________. Fan-fare: AGO in Philadelphia, July 1-6, 2002. Sept 22-25*

__________. Harpsichord News. Mar 6, 8, Apr 6, June 6-8

__________. Hugo Distler SIXTY Years Later. Nov 22

__________. Jurow Harpsichord Competition, SEKHS, MHKS in Bethlehem. July 14*

__________. Oberlin College opens its new Fisk Organ, Opus 116. Jan 18-19*†

Performance practice. See Crowell, Geffert.

Pickering, David C. The Organ Works of Leroy Robertson (1896-1971). Dec 14-16*+†

Powell, Robert. See Overall.

Robertson, Leroy. See Pickering.

Robinson, Joyce. New Organ Music. Jan 12, Oct 12, Dec 12

Sadoh, Godwin. The Creative Process in Nigerian Hymn-Based Compositions. Aug 15-17+

Sagar Organ. See Gault.

Schou, Larry. New Organ Music. Feb 14

Sewanee Church Music Conference. See Landrum.

SIFOS. See Lawrence.

Smith, Domecq. New Organ Music. Jan 12, 14, June 13-14, July 12

Speller, John L. Book Reviews. Jan 8, 10

__________. New Recordings. Feb 12, Apr 8, 10, May 11, Aug 12, Nov 12-13

Spicer, David. Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival/USA. Feb 14-15*

Stevens. See Coleberd.

Summer Institute for French Organ Studies. See Lawrence.

Swager, Brian. Carillon News. Jan 6, 8,* Feb 6, 7,* Mar 6,* July 8,* Sept 8, 10, Oct 6-8, Nov 6, 8, Dec 6-7*

__________. 2002 Summer Carillon Concert Calendar. June 24-25

Taylor, Herman D., and Williams, Donald W. The University of Michigan 41st Conference on Organ and Church Music. Mar 14*

Tech Lines. See Huestis.

University of Iowa. See Dickinson.

University of Michigan. See Taylor, Wagner.

Vos, Wesley. See Butera.

Wagner, James. University of Michigan 22nd International Organ and Church Music Institute. Jan 14*

Wechsler, Malcolm. Organ Historical Society 46th Annual Convention. May 16-22*

Wyly, James. The Oaxaca Congress 2001: "The Restoration of Organs in Latin America." Mar 15-17*

Zuiderveld, Rudolf. Cavaillé-Coll in Oberlin: June 12-15, Oberlin College. Nov 16-17*

Appointments

Ball, Steven,* to Plymouth Congregational Church, Lansing, MI. Nov 3

Basch, Peter J., to St. Ann's Church, Hoboken, NJ. Feb 3

Beck, Janice,* to St. John's Episcopal Church, Detroit, MI. Mar 3

Britanyak, Tom, to authorized service director, Wicks Organ Company, Highland, IL. July 3

Brown, Thomas,* to University Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, NC. Nov 3

Budzynski, Eric James,* to the Parish Church of St. Luke, Evanston, IL. Jan 3

Charneski, Jason,* to First Church of Christ (Center Church), Hartford, CT. Apr 3

Christie, James David,* to professor of organ, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, OH. Aug 3

Coldwell, Maria, to executive director, Early Music America. Dec 3

Cowan, Ken,* to St. Bartholomew's Church, New York, NY. June 3

Decker, Pamela,* to associate professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Apr 3

Dexter, Jeffrey D.,* to vice-president, tonal director, Schantz Organ Company, Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Forbes, James A., Jr., to AGO chaplain for 2002-2004. Oct 3

Gastier, Eric J., to vice-president, design and engineering, Schantz Organ Company, Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Giesbrecht, Marnie,* to Professor of Music, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Dec 3

Hamner, William,* to tonal department, Wicks Organ Company, Highland, IL. July 3

Kemper, Margaret,* to Kenilworth Union Church, Kenilworth, IL. Mar 3

Lee, Daewon (David),* to Korea area sales manager, Wicks Organ Company, Highland, IL. Oct 3

Leister, Jason, to assistant to executive director of the AGO. Jan 3

Malinka, Melanie,* to director of music, The Madeline Choir School, Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, UT. Feb 3

Mangel, Curt,* to Curator of the Wanamaker Organ, Philadelphia, PA. Sept 3

Mann, Timothy H.,* to vice-president, marketing, Schantz Organ Company, Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Miller, Charles,* to Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, CT. Mar 3

Montgomery, Krista, to director of sales and marketing, Shawnee Press, Inc., Delaware Water Gap, PA. Dec 3

Morrison, Alan,* to head of the organ department, The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA. Aug 3

Moser, Rich,* to Ohio and Pennsylvania area sales manager, Wicks Organ Company, Highland, IL. Oct 3

Perlow, Kenneth R., to interim director of Early Music America. Jan 3

Porter, William,* to faculty, Eastman School of Music. June 3

Potts, Nigel,* to St. Peter's-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Bay Shore, NY. Nov 3

Rakich, Christa,* to New England Conservatory, Boston, MA. May 3

Ridgell, Robert P.,* to Philadelphia Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA. June 3

Robinson, Joyce Johnson,* to associate editor, The Diapason. Nov 4

Rowley, Naomi, to First United Methodist Church, Appleton, WI. Feb 3

Scanlon, Andrew,* to Fellow in Church Music, Christ & St. Stephen's Church (Episcopal), New York, NY. Oct 3

Schantz, John, to chairman of the board and manager, service department, Schantz Organ Company, Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Schantz, Victor B.,* to president, Schantz Organ Company, Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Shorney, John L.,* to president, Hope Publishing, Company, Carol Stream, IL. Feb 3

Sievert, Jack,* to executive vice-president, Schantz Organ Company, Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Stowe, Linda Morgan,* to School Organist/Director of Chapel Music, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH. Oct 3

Suter, Erik Wm.,* to Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC. Nov 4

Swist, James, to area sales director, Wicks Organ Company, Highland, IL. Aug 3

Sykes, Peter,* to New England Conservatory, Boston, MA. May 3

Tadlock, Cherry, to Music Editor for Piano and Choral Music, Carl Fischer. Oct 3

Thoene, Marijim,* to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, New Orleans, LA. Jan 3

Trenney, Tom,* to First Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, MI. June 3

Tucker, Dale,* to First Wayne Street United Methodist Church, Fort Wayne, IN. Feb 3

Urban, Christopher,* to First Presbyterian Church, Arlington Heights, IL. Apr 3

Unsworth, Andrew,* to Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, UT. Feb 3

Honors and Competitions

Abrahamson, Dan,* retires from the Reuter Organ Company. Mar 3

Apkalna, Iveta, wins 2002 Royal Bank Calgary Competition Bach prize. Nov 3

Ashdown, Franklin D.,* receives ASCAP awards. Sept 3

Baglivi, Anthony, receives 2002 AGO President's Award. Oct 3

Benedum, Richard, retires from Dayton Bach Society. Feb 3

Blair, Nancy Jane,* honored at retirement from Briarlake Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA. Oct 3

Bolcom, William, and Joan Morris, receive MTNA Achievement Award. June 3

Brunelle, Philip, honored with Minnesota "Sally Award." Mar 3

Carrasco, Laura A.,* receives Mader Fund organ music research grant. June 3

Driskill-Smith, Clive,* wins 2002 Royal Bank Calgary Competition concerto gold medal and Duruflé prize. Nov 3

Dubois, Vincent,* wins 2002 Royal Bank Calgary Competition recital gold medal. Nov 3

Ensemble Amarcord,* wins German Music Competition. July 4

Fassang, László,* wins 2002 Royal Bank Calgary Competition improvisation gold medal. Nov 3

Fedak, Alfred,* awarded prize by John Ness Beck Foundation for composition. Apr 3

Gardiner, Rev. Robert, wins Macalester-Plymouth United Church hymn writing contest. May 3

Harbach, Barbara,* awarded honorary degree at Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH. July 3

Harmon, Thomas, retires from UCLA and First United Methodist Church, Santa Monica, CA. Sept 4

Hocdé, Emmanuel,* wins 2002 Grand Prix de Chartres, J.S. Bach performance prize, and Prize of the Audience. Dec 3

Jordan, Alice Yost, inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame. Oct 4

Khvoshchinsky, Sergey, wins Plymouth Music Series and the American Composers Forum Christmas carol contest. Jan 3

Kilstofte, Mark,* wins 2002 Choral Ventures program. Sept 4

King, Robert Burns,* honored at fortieth anniversary as organist-choirmaster, First Presbyterian Church, Burlington, NC. Nov 4

Muncaster, Clive, wins Plymouth Music Series and the American Composers Forum Christmas carol contest. Jan 3

Oldengarm, Jonathan, wins 2002 Royal Bank Calgary Competition RCCO prize and encore prize. Nov 3

Olson, Timothy, wins first prize in AGO National Young Artists Competition. Oct 3

Pearson, Kate, wins Bowling Green State University organ competition. May 4

Porter, Emily Maxson, wins Holtkamp-AGO Award in Organ Composition. Feb 3-4

Reuter Organ Company receives Kansas Chamber of Commerce & Industry Excellence in Manufacturing award, Nov 3, and award from Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing. Dec 4

Rose, John,* honored for 25 years service as college organist by Trinity College, Hartford, CT. July 4

Schalk, Carl, to receive AGO Distinguished Composer Award. May 4

Sitton, Michael,* wins first place in Cantate "Signature Anthem" competition. Dec 3

Stringham, Phyllis,* honored at retirement from Carroll College, Waukesha, WI. Dec 4

Sullivan, Daniel,* awarded first place in Gruenstein Memorial Organ Competition. Oct 2-3

Swann, Frederick,* honored as Performer of the Year by New York City AGO chapter. Dec 4

Thornock, Neil, wins second prize in 2002 Carillon Composition Competition. Sept 3

Trapp, Lynn, receives 2002 Spirit and Truth Award from University of Notre Dame. Oct 4

Trotter, Thomas,* receives Royal Philharmonic Society's Instrumentalist Award. Aug 6

Truckenbrod, Phillip Agency,* celebrates 35th year of operation. Sept 6

Unger, Johannes,* wins St. Albans International Organ Competition. Jan 4

Wallace, Edward A.,* honored at retirement by the Church of St. Michael and St. George, St. Louis, MO. Jan 4

Warland, Dale,* receives Chorus America's Louis Botto award. Aug 6

Wikman, Thomas,* receives honorary degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, July 4.

Obituaries

Bales, Gerald Albert.* Dec 6

Banta, Lorene S. Feb 6

Bruun, Lewis C.* Dec 6

Goode, Jack C. May 6

Gotwals, Vernon Jr. June 6

Herz, Eric. Aug 6

Holzgraf, Lloyd.* Jan 6

Hume, Paul. Feb 6

Kelone, Earl V.* Sept 6

Lake, Frederick A. Sept 6

Lehnerer, Paul Francis. Aug 6

Lohmann, Heinz. Feb 6

Noehren, Robert.* Sept 8

Plummer, Ruth.* June 6

Radford, Jeffrey Paul. Nov 6

Rodgers, John. July 6

Schoenstein, Lawrence L.* May 6

Sherman, Elizabeth Birkshire Brothers. Oct 6

Vos, Wesley M.* July 6

Wick, Martin M.* Aug 6

Organ Stoplists

Austin

Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, CT. Antiphonal 2/7,* July 1, 18

Berghaus

St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church, Chicago, IL. 2/34,* Feb 24

Bigelow

All Souls' Episcopal Church, Oklahoma City, OK. 2/22,* July 18

Buzard

North Shore United Methodist, Glencoe, IL. 2/17,* Nov 24

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Denver, CO. 2/17,* June 1, 22

St. David's Episcopal Church, Glenview, IL. 2/29,* Dec 1, 23

Dobson

United Lutheran Church, Red Wing, MN. 2/20,* May 1, 23

Edwards

Episcopal Church of the Nativity, Fort Oglethorpe, GA. 2/16,* Aug 1, 22-23

Fabry

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Spring Lake, MI. 2/21,* Feb 23

Fabry (Aeolian-Skinner)

Marytown Kolbe Shrine, Libertyville, IL. 3/29,* Mar 24

Fenris

Ascension Lutheran Church, Albert Lea, MN. 2/12,* Aug 23

Fowler (Casavant)

St. Mary Cathedral, Lansing, MI. 3/50,* Sept 27

Goulding & Wood

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC. 4/210,* Mar 1, 21-23

St. John's Episcopal Church, Crawfordsville, IN. 2/9,* Sept 27

Meridian Street United Methodist Church, Indianapolis, IN. 2/14,* June 23

Harris and McDonough

St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Santa Monica, CA. 3/38,* Oct 28

Hendrickson

Church of St. Peter, St. Peter, MN. 3/40,* Nov 1, 23

Jaeckel

Christ Lutheran Church, Superior, WI. 2/10,* Apr 22

Lauck

St. Peter's Cathedral, Marquette, MI. 3/33,* Aug 24

Lewis & Hitchcock

First Presbyterian Church, Cumberland, MD. 3/30,* Apr 22-23

Lively-Fulcher

St. Olaf Catholic Church, Minneapolis, MN. 3/67,* Oct 27

Marceau

Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, Gig Harbor, WA. 3/58,* Feb 1, 22-23

Muller, J.W. (Schuelke)

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Columbus, OH. 2/38,* July 19

Murphy

Falkner Swamp Reformed Church, Gilbertsville, PA. 2/14,* Jan 22

Nordlie

St. Barnabas Lutheran Church, Plymouth, MN. 2/19,* May 24

Quimby

SkyRose Chapel, Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, CA. 4/65,* Oct 1, 26

Reuter

Trinity United Methodist Church, Wilmette, IL. 3/63,* Jan 1, 20-21

Rieger-Kloss

First Congregational Church, Beloit, WI. 4/65,* Sept 1, 26

Schlueter

Lumpkin United Methodist Church, Lumpkin, GA. 2/9,* Dec 24

Stella Maris Catholic Church, Sullivan's Island, SC. 2/23,* Nov 24

Schoenstein

Bishop Spencer Place, Kansas City, MO. 2/6,* June 23

Covenant Presbyterian Church, Madison, WI. 3/46,* Sept 28

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Belvedere, CA. 2/11, Dec 24

Visser

Concordia University, Austin, TX. 2/22,* Apr 23

St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Alexandria, VA. 2/31,* May 24

Wicks

Christ Church, Episcopal, Plano, TX. 3/22,* Apr 1, 20-21

Zamberlan

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Greencastle, IN. 2/23,* Aug 24-25

2002 In Review--An Index

Articles, Reports, and Reviews

by author (boldface) and
subject

Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival/USA. See Spicer.

American Cathedral in Paris. See Ebrecht.

American Guild of Organists. See Palmer.

Andrews, Colin. New Recordings. July 10-11

Apple, Warren. New Organ Music. Mar 13, Apr 12-13, Nov 15,
Dec 12-13

Arias, Enrique Alberto. Arthur C. Becker: Sonus Epulantis.
Jan 15-17*+

__________. Gregorian Chant Review. May 8-10

Bach, J.S. See Crowell.

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception. See Latona.

Becker, Arthur C. See Arias.

Bethards, Jack. Frederick A. Lake obituary. Sept 6

__________. Organ Design and the Kraft Music Hall. Oct
18-21*†#

Book Reviews. See Collins, Hartman, Marigold, Ogasapian,
Speller.

British Organ Music Seminar. See McAfee.

Bulgarian Organs. See Levi.

Butera, Jerome. In Memoriam Wesley Vos. July 2

Butera, Jerome, William Osborne, J. Bunker Clark, Haig
Mardirosian, and Ronald E. Dean. Robert Noehren: In Memoriam December 16,
1910-August 4, 2002. Oct 14-17

Canadian Organists. See Hartman.

Carillon News. See Swager.

Cavaillé-Coll. See Zuiderveld.

Choral reviews. See McCray.

Coleberd, R.E. Stevens of Marietta: A Forgotten Builder in a
Bygone Era. June 18-21*†#

Collins, John. Book Reviews. Feb 8, 10, Nov 11-12

__________. New Organ Music. Dec 12

__________. New Recordings. Mar 11-12, July 11, Oct 10, 12

Continuo. See Crowell.

Crowell, Gregory. New Organ Music. Mar 13, Nov 14

__________. New Recordings. Apr 10, May 12, June 12, Nov 13,
Dec 10, 12

__________. Registration and Sonority in J.S. Bach's
Continuo Practice. Feb 19-21*†

Dickinson, William. University of Iowa Institute for Sacred
Music 2002. Aug 20-21*

Distler, Hugo. See Palmer.

Ebrecht, Ronald. Lenten series at the American Cathedral in
Paris, 1949 and 1950. Dec 20-21*†

Editor's Notebook. Jan 2

Ellis, Laura. New Organ Music. Aug 13, Sept 14, Oct 13

Ferko, Frank. An Extraordinary Musical Odyssey: Paul Jacobs'
Messiaen Marathon. Apr 14-15*

Fisk Opus 116. See Palmer, Zuiderveld.

French Organ Music Seminar. See McAfee.

Gault, Robert. 1878 Sagar Organ, Central Presbyterian
Church, Eugene, Oregon. June 16-17*†

Geffert, Johannes. Toe or Heel? Evidence of Baroque
Practices. July 15-17+

Gell, David A. New Organ Music. Jan 12, Feb 14, Aug 13-14,
Sept 14, Oct 12-13

Gregorian Chant Review. See Arias

Hardwick, Peter. New Organ Music. Apr 12, May 13, June
12-13, July 12-13, Aug 12-13, Nov 14-15, Dec 12

__________. New Recordings. Nov 12

Harpsichord News. See Palmer.

Hartman, James B. Book Reviews. Feb 10, Apr 8, June 8, 10,
Aug 8, 10, Sept 12, Oct 10, Nov 10-11, Dec 8, 10

__________. Families of Professional Organists in Canada.
May 14-15

__________. Seven Outstanding Canadian Organists of the
Past. Sept 15-17

Holland, Jon. New Recordings. Nov 13-14, Dec 10

Huestis, Herbert L. Tech Lines. June 15#, Aug 14, Dec 22*

Hughes, Sarah Mahler. New Organ Music. Feb 13-14, June 14,
July 13

Jacobs, Paul. See Ferko.

Johnson, Brent. Martin M. Wick obituary, Aug. 6*

Johnson, Jane. See Palmer.

Kuhlman, William. Organ Teaching in the Small Liberal Arts
College. Dec 17-19*

Landrum, Mary Fisher. Sewanee Church Music Conference. Dec
22*

Latin American organs. See Wyly.

Latona, Peter, Robert Grogan, and Geraldine M. Rohling. The Basilica
of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Upper Church Organ
Renovation Project, Goulding & Wood, Inc. Mar 21-23*†

Lawrence, Arthur. 2001 Summer Institute for French Organ
Studies. Oct 22-25*†

Leaver, S. Christopher. Augustana Arts - Reuter
Undergraduate Organ Competition. June 14*

Letters to the Editor. Feb 2, Apr 2, May 2, June 2, July 2,
Aug 2, Sept 2, Nov 2

Levi, Sabin, and Hristo Buzhev. Organs in Bulgaria. Sept
18-21*†

Marigold, W.G. New Recordings. Jan 10, 12, Feb 12-13, Mar
12-13, Apr 10, 12, May 11-12, June 10, 12, Aug 10-12, Sept 12, 14, Nov 12

__________. Book Reviews. May 10-11, June 10, July 10-11,
Dec 10

McAfee, Kay. British Organ Music Seminar. Feb 16-18*

__________. French Organ Music Seminar 2001: Paris Week,
July 2-9, 2001. Mar 18-20*

__________. French Organ Music Seminar 2001: Alsace Week,
July 10-14, 2001. Apr 18-19*

McCray, James. Music for Voices & Organ. Jan 8, Feb 8,
Mar 8-10, Apr 7-8, May 8, June 8, July 8-10, Aug 7-8, Sept 10, 12, Oct 8, 10,
Nov 8, 10, Dec 8

Messiaen Marathon. See Ferko.

Music for Voices & Organ. See McCray.

Nelson, Lee. New Handbell Music. Jan 14, Mar 13, May 12-13,
Aug 14, Nov 15

New Handbell Music. See Nelson.

New Organ Music. See Apple, Collins, Crowell, Ellis, Gell, Hardwick,
Hughes, Robinson, Schou, Smith.

New Recordings. See Andrews, Collins, Crowell, Hardwick,
Holland, Marigold, Speller.

Nigerian music. See Sadoh.

Noehren, Robert. See Butera, et al.

Oaxaca. See Wyly.

Oberlin College. See Palmer, Zuiderveld.

Ogasapian, John. Book Reviews. Feb 10, 12, Mar 10-11

Organ Design. See Bethards.

Organ Historical Society. See Wechsler.

Organ Pedagogy. See Kuhlman.

Organ Recitals. Jan 25-26, Feb 28-29, Mar 28, Apr 28-29, May
27-29, June 28, July 24-25, Aug 28-29, Sept 32-33, Oct 32-33, Nov 28-29, Dec
28-29

Organ Restoration. See Wyly.

Overall, Jason. An Interview with Robert Powell. Nov 18-21*

Palmer, Larry. Drawings by Jane Johnson: A Retrospective and
an Appreciation. Aug 18-19*

__________. Fan-fare: AGO in Philadelphia, July 1-6, 2002.
Sept 22-25*

__________. Harpsichord News. Mar 6, 8, Apr 6, June 6-8

__________. Hugo Distler SIXTY Years Later. Nov 22

__________. Jurow Harpsichord Competition, SEKHS, MHKS in
Bethlehem. July 14*

__________. Oberlin College opens its new Fisk Organ, Opus
116. Jan 18-19*†

Performance practice. See Crowell, Geffert.

Pickering, David C. The Organ Works of Leroy Robertson
(1896-1971). Dec 14-16*+†

Powell, Robert. See Overall.

Robertson, Leroy. See Pickering.

Robinson, Joyce. New Organ Music. Jan 12, Oct 12, Dec 12

Sadoh, Godwin. The Creative Process in Nigerian Hymn-Based
Compositions. Aug 15-17+

Sagar Organ. See Gault.

Schou, Larry. New Organ Music. Feb 14

Sewanee Church Music Conference. See Landrum.

SIFOS. See Lawrence.

Smith, Domecq. New Organ Music. Jan 12, 14, June 13-14, July
12

Speller, John L. Book Reviews. Jan 8, 10

__________. New Recordings. Feb 12, Apr 8, 10, May 11, Aug
12, Nov 12-13

Spicer, David. Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival/USA. Feb
14-15*

Stevens. See Coleberd.

Summer Institute for French Organ Studies. See Lawrence.

Swager, Brian. Carillon News. Jan 6, 8,* Feb 6, 7,* Mar 6,*
July 8,* Sept 8, 10, Oct 6-8, Nov 6, 8, Dec 6-7*

__________. 2002 Summer Carillon Concert Calendar. June
24-25

Taylor, Herman D., and Williams, Donald W. The University of
Michigan 41st Conference on Organ and Church Music. Mar 14*

Tech Lines. See Huestis.

University of Iowa. See Dickinson.

University of Michigan. See Taylor, Wagner.

Vos, Wesley. See Butera.

Wagner, James. University of Michigan 22nd International
Organ and Church Music Institute. Jan 14*

Wechsler, Malcolm. Organ Historical Society 46th Annual
Convention. May 16-22*

Wyly, James. The Oaxaca Congress 2001: "The Restoration
of Organs in Latin America." Mar 15-17*

Zuiderveld, Rudolf. Cavaillé-Coll in Oberlin: June
12-15, Oberlin College. Nov 16-17*

Appointments

Ball, Steven,* to Plymouth Congregational Church, Lansing,
MI. Nov 3

Basch, Peter J., to St. Ann's Church, Hoboken, NJ. Feb 3

Beck, Janice,* to St. John's Episcopal Church, Detroit, MI.
Mar 3

Britanyak, Tom, to authorized service director, Wicks Organ
Company, Highland, IL. July 3

Brown, Thomas,* to University Presbyterian Church, Chapel
Hill, NC. Nov 3

Budzynski, Eric James,* to the Parish Church of St. Luke,
Evanston, IL. Jan 3

Charneski, Jason,* to First Church of Christ (Center
Church), Hartford, CT. Apr 3

Christie, James David,* to professor of organ, Oberlin
College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, OH. Aug 3

Coldwell, Maria, to executive director, Early Music America.
Dec 3

Cowan, Ken,* to St. Bartholomew's Church, New York, NY. June
3

Decker, Pamela,* to associate professor, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Apr 3

Dexter, Jeffrey D.,* to vice-president, tonal director,
Schantz Organ Company, Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Forbes, James A., Jr., to AGO chaplain for 2002-2004. Oct 3

Gastier, Eric J., to vice-president, design and engineering,
Schantz Organ Company, Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Giesbrecht, Marnie,* to Professor of Music, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Dec 3

Hamner, William,* to tonal department, Wicks Organ Company,
Highland, IL. July 3

Kemper, Margaret,* to Kenilworth Union Church, Kenilworth,
IL. Mar 3

Lee, Daewon (David),* to Korea area sales manager, Wicks Organ
Company, Highland, IL. Oct 3

Leister, Jason, to assistant to executive director of the
AGO. Jan 3

Malinka, Melanie,* to director of music, The Madeline Choir
School, Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, UT. Feb 3

Mangel, Curt,* to Curator of the Wanamaker Organ,
Philadelphia, PA. Sept 3

Mann, Timothy H.,* to vice-president, marketing, Schantz
Organ Company, Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Miller, Charles,* to Asylum Hill Congregational Church,
Hartford, CT. Mar 3

Montgomery, Krista, to director of sales and marketing,
Shawnee Press, Inc., Delaware Water Gap, PA. Dec 3

Morrison, Alan,* to head of the organ department, The Curtis
Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA. Aug 3

Moser, Rich,* to Ohio and Pennsylvania area sales manager,
Wicks Organ Company, Highland, IL. Oct 3

Perlow, Kenneth R., to interim director of Early Music
America. Jan 3

Porter, William,* to faculty, Eastman School of Music. June
3

Potts, Nigel,* to St. Peter's-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church,
Bay Shore, NY. Nov 3

Rakich, Christa,* to New England Conservatory, Boston, MA.
May 3

Ridgell, Robert P.,* to Philadelphia Cathedral,
Philadelphia, PA. June 3

Robinson, Joyce Johnson,* to associate editor, The Diapason.
Nov 4

Rowley, Naomi, to First United Methodist Church, Appleton,
WI. Feb 3

Scanlon, Andrew,* to Fellow in Church Music, Christ &
St. Stephen's Church (Episcopal), New York, NY. Oct 3

Schantz, John, to chairman of the board and manager, service
department, Schantz Organ Company, Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Schantz, Victor B.,* to president, Schantz Organ Company,
Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Shorney, John L.,* to president, Hope Publishing, Company,
Carol Stream, IL. Feb 3

Sievert, Jack,* to executive vice-president, Schantz Organ
Company, Orrville, OH. Mar 3

Stowe, Linda Morgan,* to School Organist/Director of Chapel
Music, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH. Oct 3

Suter, Erik Wm.,* to Washington National Cathedral,
Washington, DC. Nov 4

Swist, James, to area sales director, Wicks Organ Company,
Highland, IL. Aug 3

Sykes, Peter,* to New England Conservatory, Boston, MA. May
3

Tadlock, Cherry, to Music Editor for Piano and Choral Music,
Carl Fischer. Oct 3

Thoene, Marijim,* to St. Paul's Episcopal Church, New
Orleans, LA. Jan 3

Trenney, Tom,* to First Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, MI.
June 3

Tucker, Dale,* to First Wayne Street United Methodist
Church, Fort Wayne, IN. Feb 3

Urban, Christopher,* to First Presbyterian Church, Arlington
Heights, IL. Apr 3

Unsworth, Andrew,* to Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake
City, UT. Feb 3

Honors and Competitions

Abrahamson, Dan,* retires from the Reuter Organ Company. Mar
3

Apkalna, Iveta, wins 2002 Royal Bank Calgary Competition
Bach prize. Nov 3

Ashdown, Franklin D.,* receives ASCAP awards. Sept 3

Baglivi, Anthony, receives 2002 AGO President's Award. Oct 3

Benedum, Richard, retires from Dayton Bach Society. Feb 3

Blair, Nancy Jane,* honored at retirement from Briarlake
Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA. Oct 3

Bolcom, William, and Joan Morris, receive MTNA Achievement
Award. June 3

Brunelle, Philip, honored with Minnesota "Sally
Award." Mar 3

Carrasco, Laura A.,* receives Mader Fund organ music
research grant. June 3

Driskill-Smith, Clive,* wins 2002 Royal Bank Calgary
Competition concerto gold medal and Duruflé prize. Nov 3

Dubois, Vincent,* wins 2002 Royal Bank Calgary Competition
recital gold medal. Nov 3

Ensemble Amarcord,* wins German Music Competition. July 4

Fassang, László,* wins 2002 Royal Bank Calgary
Competition improvisation gold medal. Nov 3

Fedak, Alfred,* awarded prize by John Ness Beck Foundation
for composition. Apr 3

Gardiner, Rev. Robert, wins Macalester-Plymouth United
Church hymn writing contest. May 3

Harbach, Barbara,* awarded honorary degree at Wilmington
College, Wilmington, OH. July 3

Harmon, Thomas, retires from UCLA and First United Methodist
Church, Santa Monica, CA. Sept 4

Hocdé, Emmanuel,* wins 2002 Grand Prix de Chartres,
J.S. Bach performance prize, and Prize of the Audience. Dec 3

Jordan, Alice Yost, inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of
Fame. Oct 4

Khvoshchinsky, Sergey, wins Plymouth Music Series and the
American Composers Forum Christmas carol contest. Jan 3

Kilstofte, Mark,* wins 2002 Choral Ventures program. Sept 4

King, Robert Burns,* honored at fortieth anniversary as
organist-choirmaster, First Presbyterian Church, Burlington, NC. Nov 4

Muncaster, Clive, wins Plymouth Music Series and the
American Composers Forum Christmas carol contest. Jan 3

Oldengarm, Jonathan, wins 2002 Royal Bank Calgary
Competition RCCO prize and encore prize. Nov 3

Olson, Timothy, wins first prize in AGO National Young
Artists Competition. Oct 3

Pearson, Kate, wins Bowling Green State University organ
competition. May 4

Porter, Emily Maxson, wins Holtkamp-AGO Award in Organ
Composition. Feb 3-4

Reuter Organ Company receives Kansas Chamber of Commerce
& Industry Excellence in Manufacturing award, Nov 3, and award from Kansas
Department of Commerce & Housing. Dec 4

Rose, John,* honored for 25 years service as college
organist by Trinity College, Hartford, CT. July 4

Schalk, Carl, to receive AGO Distinguished Composer Award.
May 4

Sitton, Michael,* wins first place in Cantate
"Signature Anthem" competition. Dec 3

Stringham, Phyllis,* honored at retirement from Carroll
College, Waukesha, WI. Dec 4

Sullivan, Daniel,* awarded first place in Gruenstein
Memorial Organ Competition. Oct 2-3

Swann, Frederick,* honored as Performer of the Year by New
York City AGO chapter. Dec 4

Thornock, Neil, wins second prize in 2002 Carillon
Composition Competition. Sept 3

Trapp, Lynn, receives 2002 Spirit and Truth Award from
University of Notre Dame. Oct 4

Trotter, Thomas,* receives Royal Philharmonic Society's
Instrumentalist Award. Aug 6

Truckenbrod, Phillip Agency,* celebrates 35th year of
operation. Sept 6

Unger, Johannes,* wins St. Albans International Organ
Competition. Jan 4

Wallace, Edward A.,* honored at retirement by the Church of
St. Michael and St. George, St. Louis, MO. Jan 4

Warland, Dale,* receives Chorus America's Louis Botto award.
Aug 6

Wikman, Thomas,* receives honorary degree from the
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, July 4.

Obituaries

Bales, Gerald Albert.* Dec 6

Banta, Lorene S. Feb 6

Bruun, Lewis C.* Dec 6

Goode, Jack C. May 6

Gotwals, Vernon Jr. June 6

Herz, Eric. Aug 6

Holzgraf, Lloyd.* Jan 6

Hume, Paul. Feb 6

Kelone, Earl V.* Sept 6

Lake, Frederick A. Sept 6

Lehnerer, Paul Francis. Aug 6

Lohmann, Heinz. Feb 6

Noehren, Robert.* Sept 8

Plummer, Ruth.* June 6

Radford, Jeffrey Paul. Nov 6

Rodgers, John. July 6

Schoenstein, Lawrence L.* May 6

Sherman, Elizabeth Birkshire Brothers. Oct 6

Vos, Wesley M.* July 6

Wick, Martin M.* Aug 6

Organ Stoplists

Austin

Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, CT. Antiphonal 2/7,* July
1, 18

Berghaus

St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church, Chicago, IL. 2/34,* Feb 24

Bigelow

All Souls' Episcopal Church, Oklahoma City, OK. 2/22,* July
18

Buzard

North Shore United Methodist, Glencoe, IL. 2/17,* Nov 24

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Denver, CO. 2/17,* June 1, 22

St. David's Episcopal Church, Glenview, IL. 2/29,* Dec 1, 23

Dobson

United Lutheran Church, Red Wing, MN. 2/20,* May 1, 23

Edwards

Episcopal Church of the Nativity, Fort Oglethorpe, GA.
2/16,* Aug 1, 22-23

Fabry

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Spring Lake, MI. 2/21,* Feb 23

Fabry (Aeolian-Skinner)

Marytown Kolbe Shrine, Libertyville, IL. 3/29,* Mar 24

Fenris

Ascension Lutheran Church, Albert Lea, MN. 2/12,* Aug 23

Fowler (Casavant)

St. Mary Cathedral, Lansing, MI. 3/50,* Sept 27

Goulding & Wood

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception,
Washington, DC. 4/210,* Mar 1, 21-23

St. John's Episcopal Church, Crawfordsville, IN. 2/9,* Sept
27

Meridian Street United Methodist Church, Indianapolis, IN.
2/14,* June 23

Harris and McDonough

St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Santa Monica, CA.
3/38,* Oct 28

Hendrickson

Church of St. Peter, St. Peter, MN. 3/40,* Nov 1, 23

Jaeckel

Christ Lutheran Church, Superior, WI. 2/10,* Apr 22

Lauck

St. Peter's Cathedral, Marquette, MI. 3/33,* Aug 24

Lewis & Hitchcock

First Presbyterian Church, Cumberland, MD. 3/30,* Apr 22-23

Lively-Fulcher

St. Olaf Catholic Church, Minneapolis, MN. 3/67,* Oct 27

Marceau

Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, Gig Harbor, WA. 3/58,* Feb
1, 22-23

Muller, J.W. (Schuelke)

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Columbus, OH. 2/38,* July 19

Murphy

Falkner Swamp Reformed Church, Gilbertsville, PA. 2/14,* Jan
22

Nordlie

St. Barnabas Lutheran Church, Plymouth, MN. 2/19,* May 24

Quimby

SkyRose Chapel, Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, CA.
4/65,* Oct 1, 26

Reuter

Trinity United Methodist Church, Wilmette, IL. 3/63,* Jan 1,
20-21

Rieger-Kloss

First Congregational Church, Beloit, WI. 4/65,* Sept 1, 26

Schlueter

Lumpkin United Methodist Church, Lumpkin, GA. 2/9,* Dec 24

Stella Maris Catholic Church, Sullivan's Island, SC. 2/23,*
Nov 24

Schoenstein

Bishop Spencer Place, Kansas City, MO. 2/6,* June 23

Covenant Presbyterian Church, Madison, WI. 3/46,* Sept 28

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Belvedere, CA. 2/11, Dec
24

Visser

Concordia University, Austin, TX. 2/22,* Apr 23

St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Alexandria, VA. 2/31,* May 24

Wicks

Christ Church, Episcopal, Plano, TX. 3/22,* Apr 1, 20-21

Zamberlan

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Greencastle, IN. 2/23,* Aug
24-25

The Class of 2016: 20 leaders under the age of 30

The Diapason’s second annual “20 under 30” selections came from a field that included over 130 nominations, a response that exceeded the previous year’s. The nominees were evaluated based upon information provided in the nominations; we selected only from those who had been nominated. We looked for evidence of such things as career advancement, technical skills, and creativity and innovation; we considered a nominee’s awards and competition prizes, publications and compositions, and significant positions in the mix. Our selections were not limited merely to organists but reflect the breadth of our editorial scope, which includes the organ, harpsichord, carillon, and church music. Here we present the winners’ backgrounds and accomplishments, and then have them tell us something interesting about themselves and about their achievements, goals, and aspirations.

Since we had to decline multiple nominees for each one we chose, selecting only 20 from a field of very worthy nominees was quite a challenge. We encourage you to participate in the “20 under 30” awards next year—a person must be nominated in order to be selected.

Stephen Buzard

Stephen Buzard, 27, was born in Urbana, Illinois, into a family of church musicians—his father is president of the Buzard Organ Company and his mother is organist-choirmaster at the Episcopal Chapel of St. John the Divine. Stephen studied organ with Ken Cowan at Westminster Choir College and served as organ scholar for Trinity Episcopal Church, Princeton, and director of music for the Episcopal Church at Princeton University. He spent a year as senior organ scholar at Wells Cathedral in England. He earned a Master of Music degree from Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music, studying organ with Thomas Murray and improvisation with Jeffrey Brillhart. He served as organ scholar for Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven, and as organist for Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School, and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Stephen was appointed assistant organist to John Scott at St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in New York City where he accompanied the choir of men and boys and assisted in the training of choristers. Following John Scott’s untimely death in August 2015, Stephen served as acting organist and director of music at St. Thomas Church, alongside his colleague Benjamin Sheen.

Stephen has released a compact disc on the Delos label, In Light or Darkness. He won the 2010 Arthur Poister Competition and the 2009 Joan Lippincott Competition for Excellence in Organ Performance. Stephen plays recitals, leads choral workshops, and accompanies extensively.

An interesting fact: My wife Lieve and I first met at RSCM summer choir camp when we were 11 years old.

Proudest achievement: Maintaining the St. Thomas choral tradition in the wake of John Scott’s sudden passing and being able to minister to the boy choristers, most of whom had never experienced the loss of someone so intimately involved in their lives. John was their mentor, hero, and in many ways the largest figure in their lives. But we know that John would have wanted us to carry on just as he would have done, and he taught us that the calling to glorify God through music is greater than any one of us.

Career aspirations and goals: To do exactly what I am doing this year. I often say I have gotten my dream job, it just came to me by way of a nightmare. Regardless of where I serve in the future, I want to continue to teach children to worship God in song in the centuries-old tradition of being a chorister.

Alcee Chriss

Alcee Chriss, III, 23, a native of Dallas, Texas, is a doctoral student in organ at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where he studies with Hans-Ola Ericsson. He received the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied organ with James David Christie, Olivier Latry, and Marie-Louise Langlais, and harpsichord and continuo with Webb Wiggins. He has also studied harpsichord and continuo playing with Hank Knox. In May 2015, he was the harpsichordist for Oberlin’s production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s opera Les Plaisirs de Versailles at the National Museum of American History and the Boston Early Music Festival.

He won first and audience prizes in the Miami Organ Competition (2014), the Albert Schweitzer National Organ Competition and the Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists in 2013, and the Fort Wayne National Organ Competition in 2016, along with second prize in the 2015 Taylor National Organ Competition in Atlanta; he performed as a “Rising Star” at the 2014 national convention of the American Guild of Organists in Boston. Chriss also received a grant from Oberlin’s 1835 fund to spend January 2014 in France studying historic organs and repertoire. In June, he will compete as one of ten finalists in the Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition. He has performed in such venues as the Meyerson Symphony Center (Dallas), John F. Kennedy Center, Washington National Cathedral, Caruth Auditorium, St. Olaf’s Catholic Church in Minneapolis, and at the Festival Myrelingues in Lyon, France. In addition to his organ and harpsichord studies, Alcee Chriss is active as a conductor and jazz pianist.

An interesting fact: I didn’t read music well for the longest time because I was a jazz and gospel musician first and foremost. I saw my first pipe organ at the ripe age of 15, only two years before I applied to the Oberlin Conservatory. I guess it was a stroke of luck that I’ve made it this far!

Proudest achievement: Being accepted as one of the finalists at the Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition.

Career aspirations and goals: To be a concert organist and teacher, and perhaps one day go to law school and integrate my expertise in music and interest in intellectual property.

Kipp Cortez

Kipp Cortez, 27, is the Joseph F. Marsh Endowed Assistant Professor of Music at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia; he teaches studio organ and carillon and oversees the renovation of the 48-bell Marsh Family Carillon and the 1968 Casavant organ. He is using his 2015 Graduate Music Award from the Theodore Presser Foundation to research American composer Frederick Marriott (1901–89), who studied organ with Marcel Dupré and carillon with Jef Denyn. Cortez’s debut CD (in production) features Marriott’s compositions. A carillonneur member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, Cortez holds the Master of Music in sacred music from the University of Michigan, where he has served as coordinator of carillon, and the Bachelor of Music in church music from Valparaiso University. While serving as acting parish musician for Grace Episcopal Church, Oak Park, Illinois, he conducted performances of Duruflé’s Requiem and Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. Kipp is a doctoral candidate in organ and sacred music at the University of Michigan, where he has studied organ with James Kibbie and Marilyn Mason. His carillon instructors include Dennis Curry of Kirk in the Hills, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

An interesting fact: I love to cook. I learned how mostly from watching my Dad. It is something we still do when we can. Like him, I love to cook with lots of spice and peppers. The more heat, the better.

Proudest achievement: During the summer of 2014, I coordinated a successful carillon recital series on the Charles Baird Carillon at Burton Tower in downtown Ann Arbor. Six other carillonneurs and myself gave recitals that drew many guests. For many of those who came out, they had never before seen a carillon. After each recital, I invited people to come upstairs to see the instrument. Watching them absorb what it is they were seeing was a real thrill. It remains a great joy for me to share the carillon with people.

Career aspirations and goals: I have one goal: to use music to inspire people. That can take many forms: giving recitals on organ and carillon, teaching in the classroom, giving private lessons, or leading the song of the people on Sunday morning.

Monica Czausz

Monica Czausz, 22, is a fourth-year student of Ken Cowan at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas, where she will complete the five-year Bachelor of Music/Master of Music program in organ performance in May 2017. She was appointed cathedral organist at Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal), Houston, Texas in September 2015 following three years serving as cathedral organ scholar. She has received first prize in the 2015 American Guild of Organists Regional Competition for Young Organists (Region VII: Southwest), the 2015 Schweitzer Competition in the Young Professionals’ Division, as well as the 2013 William C. Hall, 2012 L. Cameron Johnson, and 2011 Oklahoma City University competitions.

An increasingly sought-after recitalist, Monica was a featured performer in 2015 at the Organ Historical Society national convention in western Massachusetts, the AGO regional convention in Fort Worth, Texas, and the East Texas Organ Festival in Kilgore, Texas. She will perform at the 2016 national convention of the AGO in Houston, Texas, both as a “Rising Star” and as cathedral organist for Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral. Additionally, she will perform at the 2016 national convention of the Organ Historical Society in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, the 2017 regional convention of the AGO in Dallas, Texas, and the 2017 AGO/Royal Canadian College of Organists regional convention in Montreal. Monica’s performances have been broadcast on WRTI Philadelphia, 91.7 Houston, and KTRU Rice Radio.

An interesting fact: I enjoy swing dancing in my spare time.

Proudest achievement: I’m proud and honored to be able to make incredible music with Robert Simpson and the Cathedral Choir at Christ Church Cathedral, Houston.

Career aspirations and goals: I hope to continue to hone my skills as a musician, both solo and collaborative, in the pursuit of realizing the most nuanced interpretations of a variety of repertoire.

Trevor Dodd

Trevor Dodd, 27, a native of Battle Creek, Michigan, is an organbuilder and service technician for John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders in Champaign, Illinois. From a young age, Trevor has manifested extraordinary interest in and ability to work with pipe organs of all kinds. He acquired and set up two pipe organs in his home before he finished high school. A 2006 E. Power Biggs Fellow of the Organ Historical Society, he studied organ at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, while earning a bachelor’s degree in construction management. During these years, he was an active freelance organ technician with clients in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. He provided restorative services for several pipe organs played at the 2012 national convention of the Organ Historical Society and thoroughly restored an Aeolian-Hammond roll-playing organ that was exhibited as a surprise addition to this convention, the first electronic organ to be exhibited at an OHS convention. Since 2014, he has been a full-time team member of the Buzard firm, where he has successfully completed significant and challenging rebuilding and restoration projects, especially in restoration of vintage electro-pneumatic actions.

An interesting fact: I reside in Urbana, Illinois, with my beautiful wife and two rambunctious dogs.

Proudest achievement: Restoring a Hinners Harp while working with the Buzard firm.

Career aspirations and goals: I want to continue bridging the old craft of organ building with technology to make the technician’s and organbuilder’s jobs more efficient and streamlined.

Joey Fala

Joey Fala, 24, is pursuing a master’s degree in organ at Yale University, studying with Martin Jean. He is a 2015 graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, with bachelor of architecture and master of science in lighting degrees.

A native of Hawaii, he began organ studies with Katherine Crosier at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu and later coached with Alfred Fedak and Christian Lane during his undergraduate career. Joey previously served as organist and choir director at First United Presbyterian Church in Troy, New York, and as organ scholar at Central Union Church in Honolulu. A recipient of the Robert T. Anderson Award and a Pogorzelski-Yankee Memorial Scholarship from the American Guild of Organists, Fala was a recitalist for the 2015 national convention of the Organ Historical Society.

Joey Fala has worked as a designer with HLB Lighting in Boston, and in research at the Lighting Research Center in Troy. Aside from music he loves being in the water—surfing, swimming, and most recently playing water polo for the Yale team.

An interesting fact: I’m known for eating and making sushi. My college roommate and I built and ran a sushi bar out of our apartment that was frequented by fellow students and even some professors. If I had to choose another career, maybe I’d open a Japanese fusion cuisine restaurant.

Proudest achievement: I shared a pretty proud moment with my first organ teacher when I told her I was admitted to the program at Yale, especially since we both thought I had ended my music career after graduating from high school and leaving for architecture school. Being in a music program for the first time, I am discovering how clueless I am about some pretty basic things people expect me to know as a musician, but my teachers and especially colleagues here at Yale have been amazingly supportive in helping me to learn the ropes.

Career aspirations and goals: While my knowledge of choral music is almost non-existent, being surrounded by the mega-talented performers and scholars of this repertoire at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music has really inspired me to delve into this uncharted territory of my musical knowledge. I would also love to perform abroad someday on some of the great legendary European organs.

Thomas Gaynor

Thomas Gaynor, 24, is a Doctor of Musical Arts (and Artist’s Certificate) candidate studying with David Higgs at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he received a Master of Music degree and the Performer’s Certificate. Assistant director of music at Christ Episcopal Church, Pittsford, he works with a newly established youth chorister program, the adult choir, and with organist David Baskeyfield.

Born in New Zealand, Thomas was Richard Prothero Organ Scholar at Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul and later honorary sub-organist. His teachers included Douglas Mews, Michael Fulcher, and Judith Clark. He later held the Maxwell Fernie Scholarship at St. Mary of the Angels Church in Wellington.

The winner of the Third International Bach-Liszt Organ Competition in Erfurt/Weimar, Germany, Sydney International Organ Competition, and the Fort Wayne National Organ Playing Competition, Gaynor has won prizes in the St. Albans International Organ Competition, the Miami International Organ Competition, and the Arthur Poister Scholarship Competition. In 2015 he was awarded the Dr. James B. Cochran Organ Prize, an annual award to an exceptional Eastman organ student. He recently released his first CD, recorded at Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul, New Zealand. Jamal Rossi, dean of the Eastman School of Music, picked this CD as one of five recent recordings that best represent the current Eastman School sound.

An interesting fact: In my spare time I love reading about and occasionally experimenting with molecular gastronomy.

Proudest achievement: Achieving first prizes in organ competitions in three different countries on three different continents.

Goals and aspirations: To be an organist that balances a wide variety of musical activities between academia, church music, and solo and collaborative recitals.

Wesley Hall

Wesley Hall, 26, is a graduate of the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, where he studied organ with Martin Jean and harpsichord with Arthur Haas. He holds both a master’s degree in historical performance and a Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance from the Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied organ with James David Christie and harpsichord with Webb Wiggins. He has had advanced studies in improvisation with Marie-Louise Langlais and Dutch organist Sietze de Vries. Wesley has concertized in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and was the first freshman chosen to represent the organ department at the Oberlin Danenberg Honors Recital in 2009.

An active chamber musician, he has been a featured soloist and continuo player with such ensembles as Burning River Baroque, Three Notch’d Road, Credo, the Oberlin Baroque Orchestra, and Emmanuel Music in Boston. Wesley recently completed his tenure as organ scholar at Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, Connecticut, and serves as the minister of music at the First Baptist Church of Worcester, Massachusetts.

An interesting fact: I am an avid bagpiper and have marched in many a parade!

Proudest achievement: A really beloved achievement for me was riding my bicycle across the U.K. from bottom to top.

Career aspirations and goals: Among other things, I hope to learn the entire organ works of J. S. Bach . . . I’ll get back to you on that.

Michael Hey

Michael T. C. Hey, 25, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, graduated in 2014 from the Juilliard School in New York City, completing accelerated five-year bachelor’s and master’s degrees in organ performance, studying with Paul Jacobs. Within one year of his graduation, Michael joined the Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists roster.

He is assistant director of music for St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, where he was one of two organists who played for Masses celebrated by His Holiness, Pope Francis, during his 2015 visit to New York at St. Patrick and at Madison Square Garden. Michael has performed multiple organ concertos at Lincoln Center with the Juilliard Orchestra and New York City Ballet, has played organ twice with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, has had numerous solo performances at AGO and NPM conventions, and has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Kimmel Center, and the Esplanade (Singapore).

An interesting fact: Wearing my flower print shirt, I showed up five minutes before a rehearsal on Carnegie Hall’s main stage. Then, on the backstage monitor, I saw a choir ascend the risers in tuxes and black dresses, and it occurred to me that I was actually grossly underdressed because it was actually a concert. So, in the blink of an eye, a stagehand threw me his XXL black long sleeve polo shirt and pushed me on stage.

Proudest achievement: Having the opportunity to share my love of music with so many people by performing throughout the world, teaching, and playing for services at St. Patrick’s, where nearly six million people visit annually.

Career aspirations and goals: I’d like to keep learning and sharing my music with others, whether it’s performing solo or collaboratively, playing organ in concert, or in church.

Amanda Mole

Amanda Mole, 29, is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in organ performance at the Eastman School of Music, where she studies with David Higgs. She earned her bachelor of music degree in organ performance with honors from Eastman, studying with William Porter, and a master of music degree from Yale University studying with Martin Jean. Prior to Eastman, Amanda studied with Larry Schipull and
Patricia Snyder.

The first-place and audience prize winner of the 2016 Miami International Organ Competition, winner of the 2014 Arthur Poister Organ Competition and 2014 John Rodland Memorial Organ Competition, and the 2014 Peter B. Knock Award, she was a finalist in the 2015 Bach-Liszt International Organ Competition and a semifinalist in the 2014 Dublin International Organ Competition, and has been featured several times on the radio show Pipedreams LIVE!. Last year, she was a featured performer at the New Haven Regional AGO Convention. This year, Amanda will perform at the OHS Convention in Philadelphia.

Amanda Mole serves as director of music at St. Michael’s Church in Rochester, New York, and at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Webster, New York, where she directs the adult choirs and the handbell choir. Amanda also sings in the Schola Cantorum of Christ Church, Rochester.

An interesting fact: I’m completely obsessed with coffee and traveling! Whenever I travel to a new place, I always scope out the third-wave coffee shops and spend all the time when I’m not practicing trying to learn more about the taste, origin, and brewing processes of different coffees. I have a favorite place in Rochester called Fuego.

Proudest achievement: I’m probably most proud of my first-place wins at national and international competitions. Just this spring, I won my first international competition (hosted in Miami) with a unanimous vote from the judges, and received the audience prize.

Career aspirations and goals: First and foremost, I’d like to play. The organ is an amazing instrument that’s hidden in plain sight in our society, and everyone I meet wants to know more. Their overwhelming curiosity is exciting and has convinced me of my aspirations. Whether I play in concerts, in competitions, or in church, I want to always learn new music and share it with as many people as I can reach.

Adam Pajan

Adam Pajan, 29, completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, in 2014, as a student of John Schwandt. There he teaches courses at several levels in organ construction, history, and design, as well as teaching students in organ performance. He earned the Master of Music degree from the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, studying with Martin Jean and Thomas Murray, and earned his undergraduate degree from Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, studying with Charles Tompkins. Pajan won the Firmin Swinnen Prize in the 2013 Longwood Gardens International Competition, as well as first prizes in the Albert Schweitzer Competition, the Arthur Poister Competition, and the Clarence Mader Competition.

Adam Pajan’s playing has been heard at conventions of the American Institute of Organbuilders, the Organ Historical Society, and the American Guild of Organists, and he has performed across the United States and in Germany, playing in the cathedrals of Mainz, Magdeburg, Fulda, and Altenberg and other historical churches. He will return in 2016 for a subsequent tour beginning at the Jesuitenkirche in Vienna. An enthusiastic church musician, he serves as organist and choir director at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in Norman, Oklahoma, and was recently appointed as artistic director and conductor of the Oklahoma Master Chorale.

An interesting fact: When I’m not practicing, you may likely find me wildly cheering for the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team.

Proudest achievement: I am proudest of having earned my DMA and secured a university teaching position immediately after graduation.

Career aspirations and goals: I hope to continue in teaching and earn a tenure-track position where I may continue to work in areas of performing, organbuilding, teaching, and choral and church music.

Nathaniel Riggle

Nathaniel A. Riggle, 27, is a freelance pipe organ builder based in Portland, Oregon. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music history and literature from the Dana School of Music of Youngstown State University, where he studied piano with Caroline Oltmanns and organ with Daniel Laginya. Originally hailing from Warren, Ohio, Nathaniel’s first experience with pipe organ building was with the A. Thompson-Allen Company’s restoration of Skinner Organ Company’s Opus 582 (1926) at Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown, Ohio, completed in 2011. Under the guidance of Nicholas Thompson-Allen, Nathaniel learned about the design of twentieth-century American Romantic orchestral organbuilding, as well as museum-quality conservation and restoration techniques.

He subsequently worked under Charles Kegg of Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, and most recently, as general manager of Bond Organ Builders, Inc., in Portland, Oregon, working under the guidance of Richard Bond. Nathaniel is a member of the American Institute of Organbuilders. He resides in Lake Oswego, Oregon, with his wife, Emma Mildred, an active organist, teacher, and conductor.

An interesting fact: In addition to building and restoring pipe organs, I am actively involved in the restoration of classic American automobiles. I have restored a 1955 Pontiac Chieftain, a 1957 Buick Special, and am currently working on a 1962 Buick Invicta.

Proudest achievement: I’m proudest of being a facilitator of harmony in a world of discord. Hearing a pipe organ for the first time never fails to awe and amaze the hearer. I feel that the greatest satisfaction in my work is experiencing with and observing the reaction of the listeners upon their first hearing of a new instrument.

Career aspirations and goals: My greatest career aspiration is to continue to make the pipe organ accessible to people who love and appreciate its music. My goal is to promote the pipe organ in our society by continuing to build and preserve instruments that will perform for future generations through the highest level craftsmanship I can attain. “The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne.” (Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parlement of Foules)

Caroline Robinson

Caroline Robinson, 24, serves as assistant organist at Rochester’s Third Presbyterian Church, working with Peter DuBois. A graduate of the Curtis Institute as a student of Alan Morrison, she is currently

pursuing a master’s degree in organ performance and literature at the Eastman School of Music, studying with David Higgs, and serving as executive assistant for outreach within the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI).

Caroline will return to Eastman in the fall to pursue the doctorate of musical arts. (Caroline began her organ studies with another member of the Class of 2016, Adam Pajan.) She has performed as a featured soloist with the Kansas City Symphony in addition to giving solo performances at the Kauffman Center, the Kimmel Center, and numerous churches around the country.

Caroline is a first-prize winner of the Schweitzer Competition and
the West Chester University Competition, and a winner of a Fulbright Grant for continuing studies in Toulouse, where she studied with Michel Bouvard,
Jan Willem Jansen, and Yasuko Uyama Bouvard. In 2015 she performed at the East Texas Pipe Organ Festival, the American Guild of Organists Region III convention, and the Organ Historical Society convention, for which she will perform again in 2016. She was part of a national Pipedreams broadcast in 2007 at Interlochen and in another Pipedreams program devoted to winners of the 2008 Albert Schweitzer Competition.

An interesting fact: I come from a family of musicians: my father is a conductor and percussionist, and both my mother and sister are violinists. I also played violin for eight years.

Proudest achievement: I’m proud of the year I spent living in Toulouse, France, during which I not only made a deeper connection with the pipe organ, but I also developed a greater understanding of different cultures and the experiences that tie us together as humans. I feel this enriches my music-making, as well!

Career aspirations and goals: My philosophical goal in being an organist is to promote a healthy future for the pipe organ and for those who play it. In my career, I see myself teaching at a university, holding a position at a church, and performing around the country and abroad. I also have a vested interest in helping to coordinate festivals and events that bring organists together around the topic of instruments and the repertoire.

Jonathan Rudy

Jonathan Rudy, 27, originally from Batavia, Illinois, is a candidate for the Doctor of Music degree in organ and sacred music from the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, where he earned his Master of Music degree, studying organ with Janette Fishell and choral conducting with William Gray and Richard Tangyuk. His undergraduate study was at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, studying organ and sacred music with Lorraine Brugh and Karel Paukert. He has served as conductor for the Valparaiso University Men’s Chorus, the AGO Bloomington Choralfest Ensemble, and the choral and instrumental ensembles at his church positions. He is presently music director for the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Cookeville, Tennessee, and has served as organist at Central Presbyterian Church, Terre Haute, Indiana, and as associate instructor of music theory and aural skills at Indiana University.

Jonathan won first and audience prizes for the American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2014. He was also a finalist in the National Organ Playing Competition in Fort Wayne, and was awarded second prize in the Regional Competition for Young Organists (Quimby Competition) in 2011. He will perform at the AGO national convention in Houston this June. He has released a compact disc, Three Halls, on the Pro Organo label. Jonathan’s recital engagements are managed by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc.

An interesting fact: I’m fascinated by airplanes and flying; one day, I’d enjoy getting my private pilot’s license.

Proudest achievement: I’m proud that I’m happily married to my beautiful wife, Katie, who is also an organist and an incredible musician. I’m also proud to be blessed with wonderful families and friends.

Career aspirations and goals: My goal is to be providing and/or teaching sacred music and organ. My home has always been in the church and its music, so I’d especially enjoy working full time as a director of music/organist. I’d also really enjoy having the opportunity to teach the next generation of aspiring organists and sacred musicians.

Patrick A. Scott

Patrick A. Scott, 29, is assistant organist-choirmaster at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, Georgia, where he plays for services and Evensongs, accompanies the Cathedral Choir and Schola, and leads a chorister program under the standards of the Royal School of Church Music. In 2014, Patrick won the first and audience prizes in the American Guild of Organists’ National Competition in Organ Improvisation in Boston, Massachusetts. A native of Picayune, Mississippi,
he holds a bachelor of music degree in organ performance from Birmingham-Southern College where he studied with James Cook. As a student of Judith and Gerre Hancock, Patrick earned both a master of music and a doctor of musical arts in organ performance and sacred music from the University of Texas at Austin. He has presented recitals, workshops, hymn festivals, and masterclasses for chapters and conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society. An active recitalist and accompanist,
Patrick Scott has appeared in concert and with choirs throughout the United States, France, Scotland, England, and Ireland. He has previously served churches in North Carolina, Texas,
and Alabama.

An interesting fact: I like to cook and to travel.

Proudest achievement: Completing my doctorate in music. It was something that I had always wanted to do, and that took a long time to arrive at, but I am thankful everyday that I stuck it out and completed it.

Career aspirations and goals: I love working in the church, and I love the opportunity to help mold the next generation of musicians, whether it be choristers at church or private organ students.

Thomas Sheehan

Thomas Sheehan, 27, is the associate university organist and choirmaster in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Prior to this position, Sheehan served on the music staff of St. Mark’s Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Trinity Church in Princeton, New Jersey. Tom is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he received diplomas in organ and harpsichord, studying with Alan Morrison and Leon Schelhase. While at Curtis he served as assistant organist to Peter Richard Conte on the Wanamaker Organ.

He received both the Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, as a student of Ken Cowan. He has also studied improvisation with Matthew Glandorf, Ford Lallerstedt, and Bruce Neswick. In 2009 he was awarded first prize in both the Arthur Poister National Competition in Organ Playing and the AGO/Quimby Regional Competition for the Mid-Atlantic Region (Region III). In July 2010, Tom was a performer at the American Guild of Organists national convention in Washington, D. C. He has performed as an organist throughout the United States and in Europe. He served as accompanist (rehearsal and concert) for Singing City under Jeffrey Brillhart for three years and as a rehearsal accompanist/harpsichordist for Choral Arts and the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, and served as Alan Morrison’s assistant at the Philadelphia Young Artist Organ Camp, which is now in its eleventh year.

An interesting fact: While I’m from an extremely musical family, I’m the first in the family to make my living in classical music, as the rest have all been involved in rock music.

Proudest achievement: Just having been lucky enough to actually make my living making music. A part of me certainly never expected to be able to do this as a profession!

Career aspirations and goals: To be able to bring excitement about the organ to a wider audience, particularly to later generations.

Wyatt Smith

Wyatt Smith, 25, born in Rapid City, South Dakota, completed a Bachelor of Music degree magna cum laude at the University of South Dakota, studying organ with Larry Schou. In 2015, he earned the Master of Music degree in organ performance from the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University, where he studied with Martin Jean. Wyatt is currently a doctoral student at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studies with Carole Terry. He serves as principal organist for Calvary Lutheran Church in Bellevue, Washington.

Wyatt has been an exceptionally prolific performer, especially for someone his age, with hundreds of performances past and on his busy calendar for the future. He performed as a “Rising Star” at the 2012 national convention of the American Guild of Organists in Nashville, Tennessee. He is also committed to commissioning and performing new compositions, including the work of David Cherwien, Carson Cooman, Emma Lou Diemer, and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, among others. He frequently performs in partnership with mezzo-soprano Tracelyn Gesteland, his former voice professor, with whom he has recorded a soon-to-be-released compact disc, Make a Joyful Noise.

An interesting fact: Now that I live in the Pacific Northwest, I am becoming more of an outdoor person. I love going for walks in different parks in Seattle, when the sun is out. I even became a member of REI.

Proudest achievement: Performing for 2,200 people during the International Summer Organ Festival at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, in San Diego, California.

Career aspirations and goals: Once I finish my doctorate, I want to find a job in which I can balance church work and teaching, while continuing to perform.

Jacob Street

Jacob Street, 28, is a graduate of Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, with a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude. He received the Master of Music degree in Historical Performance from Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied organ and harpsichord under James David Christie, Webb Wiggins, and Olivier Latry. He is now pursuing a Master of Music degree at the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University, where he studies with Thomas Murray and Arthur Haas.

In 2013 and 2014, Street studied in Lübeck, Germany, under a Fulbright scholarship, taking lessons on the many historical instruments there and giving recitals throughout northern Germany. A prizewinner in multiple international competitions, Jacob most recently won the Prix de la ville d’Angers in the Jean-Louis Florentz International Organ Competition. He was awarded second prize in the 2012 Dieterich Buxtehude International Organ Competition in Lübeck. In 2010, he performed as a “Rising Star” in the American Guild of Organists national convention.

He was recently appointed director of music at St. Paul’s on the Green, Norwalk, Connecticut. He is also artistic director for les soûls d’amour, ensemble in residence at Seabury Academy of Music and the Arts, Norwalk, a lively early music ensemble of singers, strings, and hurdy-gurdy. He is a frequent contributor to The American Organist magazine, interviewing young rising stars in the organ world. As a music critic, he won the inaugural Rubin Prize for Music Criticism while at Oberlin in 2012.

An interesting fact: I’ve tried several non-keyboard instruments over the years (baritone sax, tabla) without much success. Lately I’ve been attempting to learn the gamba, inspired by my wonderful former teacher Jim Christie, who would play the air gamba to demonstrate proper French Baroque articulation (TOO-tee TOO-tee).

Proudest achievement: I’ve had the chance to do a lot of amazing things as a musician, and I owe it all to the many remarkable mentors I’ve had over the years, like John Skelton, my first teacher. But I am probably proudest of training for and running a marathon just for the heck of it. I highly recommend the whole painful thing. (And thanks to the incredible Richard Webster for
the inspiration!)

Career aspirations and goals: I hope to be involved in collaborative music of all kinds—teaching, directing church choirs both amateur and professional, performing in early music ensembles, and so on. The exchange of ideas at the heart of music is the key, for me, which is one reason I love writing about it. And finally, I will (with a nod to the great Jeff Brillhart) someday improvise a spectacular fugue at a moment’s notice. But not today.

David von Behren

David von Behren, 21, is the first organist to receive Cleveland Institute of Music’s (CIM) prestigious Darius Milhaud Award, given each year to a student “who displays qualities of unusual talent and creativity, sensitivity, expressiveness, strong love for and dedication to the musical arts, outstanding musical accomplishment, and evidence of academic excellence.” A native of Falls City, Nebraska, David is an organ performance/music theory double major, studying with Todd Wilson at CIM. An accomplished violinist, he served as assistant concertmaster in the New York Summer Music Festival Chamber Orchestra. As a pianist, he won first prize in the 2011 Nebraska Federation of Music Clubs Piano Competition in Omaha and other awards. He currently serves as music intern at Plymouth Church, United Church of Christ in Shaker Heights, Ohio, working with James Riggs. A winner of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award on National Public Radio’s (NPR) From the Top, in 2013 David began the “Little Stars Summer Program,” a music program for children ages 3–6, in association with NPR’s From the Top and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

David has performed with the CIM orchestra at Kulas Hall and Severance Hall, and at the Oregon Bach Festival, collaborated with Grammy-winning clarinetist Franklin Cohen at the Cleveland ChamberFest Verve Gala, and joined the Harvard Organ Society tour of France and the Netherlands. The winner of the Tuesday Music Association Organ Competition in Akron, Ohio, the Henry Fusner prize for outstanding achievement in the CIM Organ Department, and the M. Louise Miller National Organ Scholarship, he holds the American Guild of Organists Colleague certificate. His website is www.davidvonbehren.com.

An interesting fact: I’m passionate about the violin and running. As a violinist, I’ve performed in orchestra festivals at Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center. As a runner, I have a guilty pleasure for racing half marathons costumed as various superheroes. I have been recognized as Superman and Batman as of late. Captain America and Iron Man are soon to make their appearances.

Proudest achievement: I actively advocate for introducing and exciting younger audiences about classical music. In 2013, I began “The Little Stars Summer Program,” a music program for 3-11 year-old children in Falls City, in association with NPR’s From the Top and The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. In June 2015, my music program won a one-year endorsement with the National Federation of Music Clubs. Beginning May 2016, the “Little Stars Summer Music Program” will partner with First Presbyterian Church of Falls City to introduce the pipe organ to nearly fifty young children within the program’s five-day curriculum. In Cleveland, I’ve introduced “Plymouth Kids’ Koncerts,” an informal concert venue for children and youth to share their musical talents in a supportive and encouraging environment.

Career aspirations and goals: I hope for a diverse career as a recitalist, church musician, and conservatory/university professor. Ultimately, my goal is to improve the days and lives of others through sacred music.

Gregory Zelek

Gregory Zelek, 24, is the first and only organist to receive Juilliard’s prestigious Kovner Fellowship, which is awarded to students whose qualifications include a “personal capacity for intellectual curiosity, commitment to the value of art in society, and potential for leadership in the field.” A native of Miami, Florida, Zelek is a graduate organ student of Paul Jacobs at the Juilliard School, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree. He will be pursuing an Artist Diploma at Juilliard in the fall of 2016. He has won first prize in numerous competitions and regularly concertizes throughout the United States.

Greg performed Poulenc’s Organ Concerto with the Miami Symphony Orchestra in 2011 and played Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, with both the Juilliard and the MET orchestras, in Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall, respectively, in 2012. He was also the organist for five performances of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Faust, and performed with the New World Symphony in 2014. He is the music director and organist at the Episcopal Church of St. Matthew and St. Timothy in New York City and served as organ scholar at Hitchcock Presbyterian Church in Scarsdale, New York, for four years.

An interesting fact: Although I look very American, I am half Cuban and only spoke Spanish until the age of four. I spent summers playing the organ in a village in northern Spain called Ramales de la Victoria, and now work at a bilingual church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Proudest achievement: I am proudest of my collaboration with ensembles. After having performed Strauss’s Alpine Symphony with the Juilliard Orchestra, I was invited to play that work with the MET Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, and later performed Gounod’s Faust with the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, and Lukas Foss’s Phorion with the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas.

Career aspirations and goals: I hope to broaden the audience for the organ, popularizing an instrument that is often misunderstood even by other classical musicians. I would also like to change the notion of the instrument as insular by presenting it in atypical performances and collaborating with other artists.

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