David Pickering, AAGO, has been appointed assistant professor of music at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, where his duties include teaching organ, piano, and music theory. He has also been appointed organist at First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, where he will accompany services on the church’s 1983 Dobson organ. Prior to this appointment, he served as assistant professor of music and chair of the fine arts division at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.
Pickering is an active recitalist, having performed throughout the United States as well as in Canada. He is featured on three compact disc recordings featuring organ music of Daniel E. Gawthrop, Alice Jordan, and Leroy Robertson; several works from these recordings have been featured on Pipedreams.
He reviews organ recordings for THE DIAPASON and is the editor of Leroy Robertson: Organ Works, published by Wayne Leupold Editions. His first book, The Auditorium Organ of the Community of Christ, will be published by the Organ Historical Society Press.
Pickering received the DMA in organ performance and a master’s degree in organ performance and musicology from the University of Kansas, as a student of James Higdon. He received his bachelor’s in organ performance from Brigham Young University, studying with Parley Belnap and J. J. Keeler. His early organ studies were with Arlene Lindner Small in Arlington, Texas.
For information: davidcpickering.com.
September 27, 2010
THE DIAPASON
