The Hartt School, University of Hartford, Connecticut, recently restarted a course for undergraduate and graduate pianists, Foundations of Organ Performance, taught by adjunct faculty member Scott Lamlein.
The school closed its organ department in 2015 with the sale of its 1970 Gress-Miles performance instrument to a church on Long Island. Hundreds of organists were educated at Hartt and went on to many church positions. There was a multi-year annual Festival of Contemporary Organ Music at Hartt in the 1970s and 1980s under the direction of the late John Holtz. Two very successful summer church music symposia were held at Hartt in the mid 1990s.
The course, originally begun in 1993 by Larry Allen, provides pianists a practical, valuable, and employable background in playing the pipe organ as well as working with a choir, soloists, clergy, and worship planning considerations. For information: hartford.edu/academics/schools-colleges/hartt.
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