James Kibbie plays Cocker Tuba Tune

James Kibbie plays Bach's Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 1128, on the Fisk Opus 87 organ (the "Marilyn Mason Organ") at Blanche Anderson Moore Hall, E.V. Moore Building, at the University of Michigan. The work was discovered and authenticated in 2008 (article by Joel Kuznick in The Diapason, December, 2008, pp. 22–23: https://www.thediapason.com/content/december-2008)

Dr. Kibbie will perform the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach in 18 recitals at the University of Michigan from September 2022 through April 2023.

The programs are open to the public, in person or live-streamed, at no charge. Contributions may be made to the James Kibbie Endowed Scholarship fund supporting organ and sacred music students at the university.

The schedule, programs, recording downloads, and additional information are available online at
www-personal.umich.edu/~jkibbie/kibbie-bach.html.

Also see Dr. Kibbie’s artist spotlight at https://www.thediapason.com/artists/james-kibbie

James Kibbie plays Bach's Partita: Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn, BWV 1170, on the Fisk Opus 87 organ (the "Marilyn Mason Organ") at Blanche Anderson Moore Hall, E.V. Moore Building, at the University of Michigan.

This work from the Walther/Krebs Collection was authenticated and assigned a BWV number only recently.

Dr. Kibbie is performing the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach in 18 recitals at the University of Michigan from September 2022 through April 2023.

The programs are open to the public, in person or live-streamed, at no charge. Contributions may be made to the James Kibbie Endowed Scholarship fund supporting organ and sacred music students at the university.

The schedule, programs, recording downloads, and additional information are available online at
www-personal.umich.edu/~jkibbie/kibbie-bach.html.

Also see Dr. Kibbie’s artist spotlight at https://www.thediapason.com/artists/james-kibbie

James Kibbie maintains a full schedule of concert, recording, and festival engagements throughout North America and Europe, including appearances at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, Royal Festival Hall in London, Dvořak Hall in Prague, and Lincoln Center in New York. During his month-long concert tour of the Soviet Union in 1991, the newspaper Pravda hailed him as “a marvelous organist, a brilliant interpreter.” A frequent jury member of international organ competitions, he has himself been awarded the Grand Prix d'Interprétation at the prestigious International Organ Competition of Chartres, France, and is also the only American to have won the International Organ Competition of the Prague Spring Festival in the former Czechoslovakia. 

James Kibbie's performances have been broadcast on radio and television in the USA, Canada, and Europe. His extensive discography includes “Merrily on Hill,” performed on the famed Skinner organ in Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, works of Dieterich Buxtehude recorded on the historic 1687 Schnitger organ of Norden, Germany, and discs of music by Bach, Franck, Alain, Tournemire, Sowande, Buck, Morrison, and contemporary Czech composers. Dr. Kibbie's “audio holiday cards,” recorded on the Létourneau organ in his residence and issued as free internet downloads, are a popular annual tradition.

James Kibbie is internationally renowned as an authority on the organ music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He has performed the complete cycle of Bach organ works in a series of eighteen recitals and is in constant demand as a Bach recitalist and clinician.  His recordings of the complete Bach works on historic baroque organs in Germany have been welcomed with enthusiastic critical and audience acclaim. Thanks to generous support from Dr. Barbara Furin Sloat in honor of J. Barry Sloat, the University of Michigan is offering Dr. Kibbie's recordings of all 274 Bach works as free internet downloads at www.blockmrecords.org/bach.

James Kibbie is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where his 42-year tenure included service as University Organist and Chair of the Organ Department. His former students hold key positions in college teaching and church music nationally. Among the honors he has received, he is particularly proud of the James Kibbie Scholarship, endowed in perpetuity by the University of Michigan to support students majoring in organ performance and sacred music.

The Hollow Men, opus 25 (1948) by Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987), played by Dr. Matthew Vangjel, trumpet, and Dr. Richard Webb, organ.

Recorded live at the opening concert performance of the Louisiana State University Trumpet Festival, March 4, 2022, at First United Methodist Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; organ by Casavant Frères, Opus 3932, IV/57, 2020.

Dr. Matthew Vangjel is Associate Professor of Trumpet at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  Currently, he is a member of the Mirari Brass Quintet (Ariel Artists), with whom he maintains an active touring schedule both in the United States and abroad. Recently, Mirari spent two weeks touring China and released its second album, “renewed, reused, recycled.”  He also is a member of the internationally acclaimed Fountain City Brass Band (FCBB), a British-style brass band based in Kansas City, KS.  He can be heard as solo flugelhorn on all the FCBB albums and as a featured soloist on Over the Rainbow and Celtic Impressions. Since the fall of 2019, Vangjel has served as the principal trumpet of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. He also has performed with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and the Kansas City Symphony. He has been a featured soloist with the Fort Smith Symphony, Northland Symphony Orchestra and the Kansas City Civic Orchestra. His first solo album, Still and Quiet Places, was released by Summit Records in October of 2019.

Dr. Richard Webb, lauded by the Bristol Herald-Courier as “a musician foremost,” is highly regarded as a facile, sensitive and uniquely synchronous accompanist on all keyboard instruments and is in significant demand as both a solo artist and collaborative partner for singers and instrumentalists. Dr. Webb is Organ/Harpsichord Principal of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, a member of the Louisiana Touring Directory, is engaged as a collaborative artist and chamber musician by Bach's Five Productions and is represented as a concert organist by Concert Artist Cooperative. He is a featured artist on The Diapason's Artist Spotlights and was named a Louisiana Artist Fellow for Excellence in the Arts. 

https://www.thediapason.com/artists/richard-webb

James Kibbie plays Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 561, on the Fisk Opus 87 organ (the "Marilyn Mason Organ") at Blanche Anderson Moore Hall, E.V. Moore Building, at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Kibbie will perform the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach in 18 recitals at the University of Michigan from September 2022 through April 2023.

The programs are open to the public, in person or live-streamed, at no charge. Contributions may be made to the James Kibbie Endowed Scholarship fund supporting organ and sacred music students at the university.

The schedule, programs, recording downloads, and additional information are available online at
www-personal.umich.edu/~jkibbie/kibbie-bach.html.