Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #90! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Peter van Tour who is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Leuven, Belgium. As a scholar in musicology, Peter has specialized in the counterpoint pedagogy and historic improvisation and composition. He studied Music Pedagogy (5 years) at Brabant Conservatory in Tilburg, Master in Musico...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #89! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Wolff von Roos, a young and talented organist student from Ball State University, Indiana. He took an interest in the organ when he was about three years old. When he was 6 he started piano. Throughout those years he taught himself about the organ and methods. By the time he was 15 he started taking or...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #88! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Samuel Delaunay who is an organist, a flutist and an amateur composer from France. Professionally, he is a project manager in a big IT company. Alongside his scientific studies, he started playing the organ at the age of 20 as a self-taught musician. He learned improvisation with Henri-Franck Beaupérin...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #87! Today's guest is Jeff Perks, concert organist and pianist from Charlotte, North Carolina. We talk about sound delays, coordinating fands and feet and playing fugues. 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. Relevant links: https:...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #86! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is a young and talented American organist and pianist Matthew Cates who is an avid lover and player of classical music - from Chopin and Rachmaninov at the piano, to Messiaen and Durufle at the organ. He has a huge passion for composition and improvisation as well. Matthew currently studies organ with Dr....

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #85! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is and Italian organist and harpsichordist ​Maurizio Croci. He holds diplomas in organ and harpsichord studies from the conservatoires of music of Milan and Trent (Italy) and spent four years at the Schola Cantorum in Basle (Switzerland) on advanced courses in organ and harpsichord under Jean-Claude Zehnd...

​Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #84! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is an American composer, concert organist, writer, editor and consultant Carson Cooman (b. 1982) with a catalog of hundreds of works in many forms—from solo instrumental pieces to operas, and from orchestral works to hymn tunes. ​​Since 2006, Cooman has held the position of Composer in Residence at The M...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #83! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guests are Lydia Vroegindeweij from the Netherlands, the Dutch organist and founder of OrgelKids and Erin Scheessele from the United States who helps bringing OrgelKids to America with OrgelKids USA. Orgelkids is an educational pipe organ curriculum and kit dreamed up by Dutch organist Lydia Vroegindeweij. Lydi...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #82! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Peter Holder who is Sub-Organist of St Paul’s Cathedral in London. He was appointed at the age of 23 following two years as Organ Scholar at Westminster Abbey. His responsibilities at both institutions have involved playing at numerous events of national importance, including the 60th Anniversary of th...

​Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #81! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Carlotta Ferrari (b. 1975) who is an Italian composer writing for organ and variety of other instruments. She served as chair of music composition at Hebei Normal University in Shijiazhuang, China, and is currently professor of music composition at the European School of Economics in Florence, Italy....

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #80! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is an organist and singer from Canada, Thomas Leslie. He is the Executive Director of the Canadian International Organ Competition, a member of the Board of Directors of Casavant Frères, and holds a Colleague Diploma from the Royal Canadian College of Organists. ​Thomas is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurer and...

SOP Podcast 79 - Tore Bjorn Larsen On Choosing To Be An Organist - Composer, Creating With Pencil On Paper, And Connecting Organists In Organ Festivals http://www.organduo.lt/podcast

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #78! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Jean-Paul IMBERT, organist from France. Born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1942, he studied piano and organ : at the early age of 15 he was appointed organist of the church of Sainte Jeanne d’Arc. In Paris he studied with Pierre Cochereau and Jean Guillou whose assistant he was from 1971 to 1993 in Saint-Eust...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #77! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Diego Innocenzi who is the resident organist of the Victoria Hall as well as of the temples of Saint-Gervais in Geneva and Vandœuvres. He also teaches the organ at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève. Born in Argentina in 1971, Diego Innocenzi began his musical studies in Buenos Aires where he gradu...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #76! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is an Italian concert organist Marco Lo Muscio. Marco is one of the most versatile musicians of his generation: organist, pianist, composer. Marco cooperates for recordings and concerts with renowned artists as Kevin Bowyer, David Jackson (Van Der Graaf Generaor), John and Steve Hackett (Genesis). He grad...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #75! Today's guest is an American organist Dr. Jesse Eschbach who is a world-reknown expert on the French organ culture in general and Aristide Cavaille-Coll's organs in particular. Dr. Eschbach is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he was a student of Robert Glasgow. He completed his formal education during a five-year residency in Paris as...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #74! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is an Italian concert organist Enrico Presti. He has attained diploma in Organ with Prof. Wladimir Matesic in Bologna and degree in Computer Science with mention in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Bologna. Enrico attended master classes with Marju Riisikamp, Olivier Latry, Peter Planyavsky...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #73! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Dr. Jeannine Jordan who is a champion of the organ and its music. She has traveled throughout the US and the world promoting and sharing organ music through her innovative concerts. As a professional organist she enjoys a varied career. Besides concertizing and recording, Jeannine has held university t...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #72! Today's guest an Italian concert organist Domenico Severin who is the Titular Organist of the Grand Orgue at the St. Etienne Cathedral in Meaux, France. He holds diploma in Organ and Organ Composition from the B. Marcello Conservatory in Venice, Italy (Prof. Sergio de Pieri), and in Musical Analysis from the Boulogne-Billancourt C.N.R., France (Prof...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #71! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast ​Today's guest is world-renown French concert organist, pianist, improviser and composer Thierry Mechler. ​He was born in 1962. He started piano and organ lessons in his home town of Mulhouse and then went on to Strasbourg where he studied piano with Helene Boschi and organ with Daniel Roth at the “Conservatoire Nation...

SOP Podcast #70 - John Boody on Pushing the Boundaries of Historically Oriented Organ Building http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #70! ​Today's guest is John Boody from Taylor and Boody Organ Builders. He is originally from Wakefield, Massachusetts, graduated from University of Maine with a B.A. in Music. He apprenticed with Fritz Noack from 1966 to 1968, th...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #69! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Peter van Tour who is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Leuven, Belgium. As a scholar in musicology, Peter has specialized in the counterpoint pedagogy and historic improvisation and composition. He studied Music Pedagogy (5 years) at Brabant Conservatory in Tilburg, Master in Musico...

​Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #68! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Phil Parkey who is the President and Tonal Director of Parkey OrganBuilders in Duluth Georgia (metro Atlanta), a position he has held since 1995. Phil is a trained organist with a BS degree from the University of North Carolina in Business Management and Administration with concentrations in accountin...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #67! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Dr. James Kibbie who is Chair of the Organ Department and University Organist at the University of Michigan. He also 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 Festiv...

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #66! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is organist and harpsichordist Gavin Black who is the Director of the Princeton Early Keyboard Center. Gavin is best known for his recordings of seventeenth-century keyboard music on the PGM label. He studied organ and harpsichord with Paul Jordan and Eugene Roan, and conducting with Jahja Ling and Otto-W...