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Baylor University announces high school organ competition

June 13, 2024
Létourneau Pipe Organs Opus 89, Powell Chapel, Truett Seminary, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Létourneau Pipe Organs Opus 89, Powell Chapel, Truett Seminary, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

Baylor University School of Music, Waco, Texas, announces its 2024 national high school organ competition, to be held October 5. The competition will take place in Truett Seminary’s Powell Chapel with its Létourneau organ of three manuals, 54 ranks. 

First prize, in memory of Joyce Jones, is $1,000; the Bach prize, sponsored by the Central Texas Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, is $500; the Young Organist prize, sponsored by Létourneau Organs, is $500; the hymn prize is $500, sponsored by Wolf Pipe Organs. 

Application deadline is August 15. For information: music.baylor.edu/organ-comp

 

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