This month we got to know composer Michael Burkhardt, who is particularly known for his skill as an organist, choral clinician, hymn festival leader, and for his creative work with children. How did you first become involved with music? I became first involved with music when my grandmother, a self-trained church organist, taught me toContinue reading “Michael Burkhardt: Featured Sacred Composer”
Category Archives: Organ
Request a New Music Reading Session
Reading sessions are one of our favorite ways to interact with music directors and musicians. Choral reading sessions are an engaging event requiring active participation from the attendees, who in turn get to experience a lot of music in a short amount of time. Similarly, organ or instrumental sessions can offer exposure to new musicContinue reading “Request a New Music Reading Session”
James Biery Interview | Featured Sacred Composer
This month we spent some time getting to know composer and music minister James Biery. How did you first become involved with music, and what drew you to composition? I was fascinated by music from an early age, starting piano lessons at age seven and then organ at eleven. As a teenager, I discovered thatContinue reading “James Biery Interview | Featured Sacred Composer”
Neil Harmon: Featured Sacred Composer
This month we’re featuring composer Neil Harmon! Acclaimed as “one of the finest products of the American organist school,” [La Nuova Venezia] Neil Harmon enjoys a career as organist, conductor, composer, and teacher. He is Director of Music and Organist at Grace United Methodist Church in Wilmington, Delaware, where he directs a semiprofessional choir, aContinue reading “Neil Harmon: Featured Sacred Composer”
Robert Lau: Keyboard Composer of the Month
“Erase the notes you don’t need.” Robert Lau talks to us about life as a composer. How did you get involved with music, and what drew you to composing? I began violin lessons at the age of seven. Interest in other instruments soon followed, so that by my high school years I played violin inContinue reading “Robert Lau: Keyboard Composer of the Month”
Robert Hobby: Keyboard & Choral Composer of the Month
Robert A. Hobby, born 1962, currently serves as Director of Music for Trinity English Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his responsibilities include playing for many of the worship services, overseeing the graded choral program, and managing the concerts the church offers. Numerous activities during his tenure include Trinity Church establishing a choral series withContinue reading “Robert Hobby: Keyboard & Choral Composer of the Month”
Vox Humana praised in recent Pastoral Music & American Organist reviews
Vox Humana was veteran organist Haig Mardirosian’s column in The American Organist, the official journal of the American Guild of Organists as well as the Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America, which ran monthly for exactly a decade. Appearing in an annotated collection for the first time here, Mardirosian creates an image encompassing both the breadthContinue reading “Vox Humana praised in recent Pastoral Music & American Organist reviews”
38 Chorals by Lionel Rogg: organ library “must-have”
Swiss composer Lionel Rogg‘s 38 Chorals is an organ collection distinguished by a great variety of styles, but the natural harmonization of each melody has been maintained in most cases. Some of them are treated in a Romantic manner, perhaps evoking the sound of Brahms or Reger. In general, the pieces are of medium difficulty, with aContinue reading “38 Chorals by Lionel Rogg: organ library “must-have””
New book celebrates life and legacy of The American Organist column, Vox Humana
MorningStar Music Publishers is pleased to announce the release of collected articles by veteran organist, Haig Mardirosian. Vox Humana is Mardirosian’s column in The American Organist, the official journal of the American Guild of Organists and the Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America, which ran monthly for exactly a decade from 2003 to 2013. HaigContinue reading “New book celebrates life and legacy of The American Organist column, Vox Humana”
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