Adam Brakel plays Reger

Adam Brakel plays O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß, BWV 622, by J. S. Bach. 

Performed at Knowles Memorial Chapel, Rollins College; Skinner Organ Company (1931) / Randall Dyer (2022), four manuals, 78 ranks. 
https://www.rollins.edu/chapel/history/the-great-organ.html 
https://www.rdyerorgans.com/collaborations/view?id=1

Adam Brakel is director of music for the Diocese of Orlando and St. James Cathedral in Orlando, Florida. His performances span the globe—from coast to coast in the United States to across Europe and Asia. His expansive repertoire includes the entire spectrum of styles featuring the complete organ works of Bach, Bruhns, Buxtehude, Couperin, Liszt, de Grigny, Franck, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Duruflé. He is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC. 
www.concertartists.com 

Photo credit: Majorie Durante

Sebastian Heindl plays Marcel Dupré's Prelude and Fugue in B Major, op. 7, no. 1.

Recorded at St. Matthias Church Berlin.

See also Sebastian Heindl's artist spotlight.

As part of his first-place prize at the Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition, Sebastian Heindl is represented for three years in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.

Damin Spritzer plays Marche Triomphale: Ite missa est, by René Louis Becker. This is from her recital at the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, Georgia, February 20, 2022.

Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1399, four manuals, 96 ranks. 
https://www.cathedralatl.org/worship/music/organs/cathedral/

Dr. Damin Spritzer is Area Chair and Associate Professor of Organ at the University of Oklahoma and Interim Director of Music and Organist for St. Thomas More University Parish in Norman. She continues to work with the Cathedral Church of Saint Matthew in Dallas as Artist-in-Residence for Cathedral Arts. Formerly Adjunct Professor at the University of North Texas teaching Organ Literature and Sacred Music, she is active in the Dallas and Oklahoma City Chapters of the American Guild of Organists and serves on committees for the Organ Historical Society, the Association of Anglican Musicians, and Organlive Media Foundation. She received her doctorate from the University of North Texas, her Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music, and her Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

See her artist spotlight at https://www.thediapason.com/artists/damin-spritzer-0

Damin Spritzer is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC. www.concertartists.com 

Benjamin Sheen plays the Scherzetto by Percy Whitlock. Recorded at Merton College, Oxford, on the Dobson Opus 91 organ there (completed 2014). 
http://www.dobsonorgan.com/html/instruments/op91_merton.html

Hailed by The New York Times as a “brilliant organist,” Benjamin Sheen is an established concert artist on both sides of the Atlantic and has recently been appointed Director of Music at Jesus College Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He was named the winner of the Pierre S. DuPont First Prize at the inaugural Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition in June 2013. That same year, he was also named second prize winner and the Jon Laukvik Prize winner of the 50th St. Albans Festival and International Organ Competition.

Benjamin Sheen will be on tour in the United States from mid-March through mid-April 2024.

Benjamin Sheen is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC. 
www.concertartists.com  

See his artist spotlight at https://www.thediapason.com/artists/benjamin-sheen

Jack Mitchener plays Franck's Choral No. 2 in B Minor.

The performance was part of a recital at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta.  The organ is by Mander (IV/106 stops; 135 ranks). 

More information is available at this link:  https://www.prumc.org/worship/instruments/

See Jack Mitchener's artist spotlight: https://www.thediapason.com/artists/jack-mitchener

Jack Mitchener is Professor of Organ, University Organist, Chairman of the Keyboard Department, and Director of the Townsend-McAfee Institute of Church Music in the Townsend School of Music at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.  In addition, he is Organist and Artist-in-Residence at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta.  

He is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC. www.concertartists.com 

Raúl Prieto Ramírez plays Suggestion Diabolique, op. 4, no. 4, by Sergei Prokofiev, transcribed for organ by Raúl Prieto Ramírez; and Orgía (danza fantástica no. 3), by Joaquín Turina, transcribed for organ by Raúl Prieto Ramírez.

Ramírez is San Diego Civic Organist and Artistic Director of the Spreckels Organ Society, where he presides over the famed Austin organ at the city’s Balboa Park Pavilion—the largest open-air musical instrument in the world. Mr. Ramírez is the eighth Civic Organist to serve San Diego on the Spreckels organ bench. https://spreckelsorgan.org/

From 2013–2017, Mr. Ramírez was organist-in-residence at Sursa Concert Hall and served on the organ faculty at Ball State University, Indiana. He continues as the Artistic Director and Founder of the Barcelona Summer Organ Festival and Academy. Mr. Ramírez has been widely recorded and interviewed for radio and television in several European countries and in the US. His first two compact discs, on the Brilliant Classics label, were recorded at Milan Cathedral in Italy (music of Franck, Liszt, Reger, and Saint-Saëns) and at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona (music for piano and organ duet). In June 2016, Mr. Ramirez and his wife, Spanish pianist Maria Teresa Sierra, were featured duo artists at the American Guild of Organists’ national convention in Houston.

Raúl Prieto Ramírez is represented exclusively in North America by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC; www.concertartists.com 

See his artist spotlight on The Diapason website: https://www.thediapason.com/artists/raul-prieto-ramirez