Mary Pan is appointed the 2017–2018 organ scholar at St. James Episcopal Cathedral, Chicago, Illinois.
She is a recent graduate of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, Connecticut, where she studied organ with Thomas Murray. She began her organ studies in 2010 under the tutelage of Patricia Snyder and is a graduate of the Hartt School, University of Hartford, Connecticut, where she was a student of Renée Anne Louprette. Pan is a prizewinner in several competitions, including the Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition, Hartford, and the American Guild of Organists regional competition for young organists, as well as a recipient of scholarships and awards, including the M. Louise Miller Scholarship, the Yankee-Pogorzelski Memorial Scholarship, and the Peter B. Knock Memorial Music Fund. She has served as organist at First Baptist Church, West Hartford, Connecticut, and as organ scholar at Trinity Episcopal Church, Hartford, and at Grace Church, New York, New York.
The organ scholar at St. James Cathedral is a one-year appointment, intended as learning position for a recent graduate from a program in organ or church music. The post offers the scholar a chance to learn the ins-and-outs of running a multi-faceted music program while polishing his or her accompanying, service-playing, and conducting skills under the guidance of director of music Stephen Buzard.
