James David Christie has been named recipient of the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists’ 2017 International Performer of the Year Award. The award was created in 1978 to recognize excellence in organ performance and to increase public awareness of the organ and its performers.
Christie is chair and professor of organ at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio, distinguished artist-in-residence at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, and serves as college organist for Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. He has served on international organ competition juries in Paris, St. Omer-Wasquehal, Chartres, Biarritz, Béthune, St. Albans, Amsterdam, Lübeck, Bordeaux, Dublin, Worcester, Calgary, Montréal, Columbus, Dallas, Leipzig, Erfurt, Weimar, Merseburg, Speyer, Tokyo, Moscow, Kaliningrad, Astana, Lausanne, Pistoia, Boston, Bruges, and several others. He has performed around the world with symphony orchestras and period instrument ensembles as well as in solo recitals.
