including her 2015 multi-media series "Projections" for Houston Arts Alliance and the City of Houston.
In this conversation we talk about her work leading the New Music Committee at the 2016 AGO National Convention in Houston as well as her presentation about the modal music of Tournemire and Hakim which was presented at the convention and published in 2014’s Mystic Modern: The Music, Thought and Legacy of Charles Tournemire, the Op. 19 organ by Martin Pasi, and her newest double CD recording "Bonjour and Willkommen" on Acis Productions. Make sure you'll listen until the very end of the conversation when Crista shares the most important thing she wished she knew when she first started playing the organ. I hope you will be inspired by it. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Related link: www.cristamiller.com Crista Miller at EastWest Organists ![]()
Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #49!
Today's guest is Dr. Don Cook who is an Associate Professor of Organ at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah where he has been teaching since 1991. In that capacity he has blended multimedia with traditional one-on-one instruction in teaching beginning organ instruction to well over 5000 pianists. Prior to that time he held full-time organist positions at First UMC,
Lubbock, Texas, and at Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from BYU, the DMA from the University of Kansas, and holds the AAGO certification. In his capacity as AGO National Councillor for Education, Dr. Cook is placing particular emphasis on harnessing the power of current technology in the educational work of the Guild.
In this conversation, Dr. Cook talks about the AGO New Organist Web Page with free video tutorials which will be of great help to organists everywhere. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Related links: The AGO New Organist Don Cook at Brigham Young University
A student of Robert Glasgow, in the fall of 1999 he spent a sabbatical with Harald Vogel in North Germany. He has performed on four continents and in nearly all fifty states.
In 2001 he presented a cycle of the complete organ works of Bach at Yale, and his compact discs of The Seven Last Words of Christ by Charles Tournemire and the complete Six Symphonies of Louis Vierne, both recorded in Woolsey Hall, have been released by Loft Recordings. Recordings of the organ symphonies and Stations of the Cross of Marcel Dupré are forthcoming on the Delos label. Professor Jean is on the board of directors of Lutheran Music Program. He earned the A.Mus.D. from the University of Michigan. In this conversation, Professor Jean shares his insights on what does it take to raise the next generation of leaders of the sacred music field in the 21st century. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Related link: Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University ![]()
Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #47!
Today is a very special podcast. Ausra and I are in the beautiful resort town of Nida on the peninsula of the Baltic coast. The entire region (Curonian Spit) is protected by UNESCO. Last night we performed an organ duet recital where we played 6 Sonatas for 4 Hands by Franz Seydelmann (you can see the engraving from the title page of the original publication below). This concert was part of the 15th International Music Festival "Organ Summer" organized by New Organ Forum (led by our friend and colleague Dr. Balys Vaitkus). It's the second time we appeared in public with this program (the first was 6 weeks ago at Vilnius University St. John's church).
In this conversation we will talk about what does it take to prepare and perform an organ duet recital and how to deal with the element of surprise when the organ doesn't behave.
Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Related links: Six Sonatas for Two Persons at One Keyboard by Franz Seydelmann (horizontal layout and vertical layout)
Tom serves as Minister of Music to First-Plymouth in Lincoln, NE, guiding the Plymouth Choir (adults) and the Choristers (grades 3-5), playing the magnificent Schoenstein organ, and serving as Artistic Director of Abendmusik: Lincoln, the Abendmuisk Chorus, and ABENDCHOR. Tom is also Music Director of sounding light- the chamber choir of Many Voices…One Song, an extensive music outreach program he founded in Southeastern Michigan. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music, Tom is grateful for his teachers and mentors: Anton Armstrong, David Davidson, Craig Hella Johnson David Higgs, William Weinert, Anne Wilson, and Todd Wilson.
Tom shares his passion as pastoral musician, performer, and teacher both in worship at First-Plymouth and in recitals, hymn festivals, choral and organ workshops, and master classes all around the country. Represented by Karen McFarlane Artists Concert Management (www.concertorganists.com), Tom has been featured at regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society, the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, National Pastoral Musicians, the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts, and the Calvin Institute of Worship. In this conversation, we talk about why some organists are afraid of improvising on the organ and what you can do to reduce this fear and anxiety. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Related links: Tom Trenney AGO Improvisation Workshop 2012 Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Tom Trenney at Concert Organists First-Plymouth church in Lincoln, Nebraska
famous because in the 17th century there worked one of the most significant students of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, the master Dutch organist, composer, and teacher, Andreas Düben. Michael has the privilege to play an organ which Düben himself also played.
Related links:
Michael Dierks on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn Video of Michael Dierks playing the Duben organ (watch what happens around 4:18) German church in Stockholm More information about the organ in the German church in Stockholm
Joseph church in Vilnius. Back in 2007 all 3 of us have founded National Association of Organists in Lithuania with the aim to unite Lithuanian organists for the common goal of promoting quality organ music and help pipe organ art survive the 21st century in our country.
In this conversation we talk about our efforts to perform multiple organ demonstrations for children and adults in various village and town churches and about church organ music situation in Lithuania. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Related links: Ausra's channel on YouTube Ausra's page on Facebook Paulius profile on Facebook The website of St. Joseph church National Association of Organists in Lithuania
concert schedule of about 60 recitals per year.
His discography of more than 50 records and CD’s includes recordings made mostly on historical instruments of Switzerland, France, Spain, Latin America and lately also in Japan and in the Philippines. Several of these recordings have been distinguished with prizes like the French « Laser d’or » or the German « Grammi » award. His activities in the preservation of historical instruments are appreciated all over the world and he has advised organ builders and restorers in Europe, Japan and both Americas, as well as in the Republic of the Philippines. With his wife, Marisa, he has revived the organ of the Alain family, for which Jehan Alain composed most of his music. This instrument is now restored and re-installed in one of the former convent buildings of the beautiful Clunysian site and village of Romainmôtier, Switzerland, where yearly organ academies are held under his direction. As a composer, he has worked much for theatre and films, but his catalogue of over 250 opus numbers includes all kinds of music. Much of his organ music has been published by various companies (Oxford University, Schola Cantorum, Eulenburg). He has published works for four organs by composers from the Einsiedeln Abbey (Doblinger) and the complete organ work by Spanish composer José Lidón (Schola Cantorum). His long-awaited new edition of Francisco Correa de Arauxo’s Facultad organica (1626), with translation and explanation of the treatise in French, German, English and Japanese, has been published in 2007 by « Ut Orpheus » in Bologna. A scholar and investigator, he has also published over 2000 various articles in musical journals on matters related to the organ. He is chief editor of the Swiss organ periodical "La Tribune de l’Orgue". A specialist of Hispanic organ music, he has carried out a survey of historical organs in Mexico and Brasil, in cooperation with UNESCO and the Swiss cultural foundation PRO HELVETIA. During twenty years, he has taught courses for interpretation of Spanish organ music at the University of Salamanca. He is giving numerous masterclasses on this and other subjects in many festivals, universities and academies all over the world. He functions as a juror in major international organ competitions. Guy Bovet has been Professor of Organ at the Musikhochschule in Basel, Switzerland, from which he has retired in July 2008, and organist of the Collegiate Church of Neuchâtel from 1988 to 2009. He is honorary citizen of the City of Dallas, Texas, and doctor honoris causa of the University of Neuchâtel. He has been honoured twice by the Japanese government for his activities as a teacher, and by the government of the Philippines for his activities in favour of the preservation of historical organs and the education of young Filipino organists. He has been awarded in 2007 the prestigious Prize of the Institut Neuchâtelois. In this conversation, Prof. Bovet shares his insights about the future of the organ art in the world. Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Related link: www.guybovet.org
on encouraging young people’s interest in organ and also on making the pipe organ appealing to and available to people in the general population. Dr. Dodrill is also Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington.
In today's conversation we will talk about what it takes to increase public's interest in organ recitals, a subject very relevant these days when church attendance is slowly declining in Western society. Here's the video version of our conversation (with slides):
Enjoy and share your comments below.
And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Related link: Pipe Organ Foundation (Dr. Carl Dodrill's 3 articles on the topic of increasing attendance of organ recitals)
Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #41!
Today's guest is Sara Schott, an organist from Lincoln, Nebraska. Sara was our boss at Grace Lutheran church when I and Ausra were doctoral students at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and worked as part-time organists at Grace. Currently she is an organist and music director there. She directs 4 choirs (adult choir, children's choir, and two bell choirs), plays the organ, and leads a very productive and creative musical life for her congregation. In today's conversation we will talk about the duties of the church musician and in particularly about the work with bell choirs. Here's the video version of today's podcast: Enjoy and share your comments below. And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Related links: Grace Lutheran church in Lincoln, NE Grace Lutheran church's page on Facebook |
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