Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast

SOP Podcast #40 - Alain Trouche on Pushing Yourself as an Organist(hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius, DMA) Today's guest is Dr. Alain Trouche, my long time friend and colleague from the doctoral studies at UNL (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) where he studied with Dr. George Ritchie. He's now living in Taipei, Taiwan. Originally from France, he grew up in Michigan, USA so he has both cultures in his per...

SOP Podcast 39 - Heather Hernandez On Parenting And Organ Playing (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius, DMA) Related links: Heather Hernandez on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heatherharringtonhernandez and Twitter: https://twitter.com/heatherhelpsorg and Thirty-One Gifts: https://www.mythirtyone.com/275275 Selected Chant-Based Organ Works of Naji Hakim: The Influence of Improvisation: http://amzn.to/...

SOP Podcast #38 - Charles Spanner On Trying Out Different Organs (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius, DMA) Secrets of Organ Playing - Helping Reach Your Dreams: http://www.organduo.lt

SOP Podcast 37 - How To Achieve Success As An Organist (Vidas Pinkevicius, DMA) Secrets of Organ Playing - Helping Reach Your Dreams in Organ Playing: http://www.organduo.lt

Secrets of Organ Playing - Helping Reach Your Dreams in Organ Playing: http://www.organduo.lt Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #36! (Hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius, DMA) Today's guest is Wayne Leupold, an American organist, an extremely experienced organ music editor and owner of Wayne Leupold Editions, publishing house dedicated to creating and publishing the highest-quality organ music f...

SOP Podcast #35 - Vidas Pinkevicius And Easter Hymn Improvisations Secrets of Organ Playing - Helping Reach Your Dreams in Organ Playing: http://www.organduo.lt

SOP Podcast 34 - Kimberly Marshall On The Earliest Organ Music(hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius) Secrets of Organ Playing - Helping reach your dreams in organ playing: http://www.organduo.lt Dr. Kimberly Marshall is an organist and organ scholar, holder of the Patricia and Leonard Goldman Endowed Professorship in Organ at Arizona State University. Dr. Marshall is celebrated worldwide for her compelling...

​Welcome to episode 33 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast with Vidas Pinkevicius, DMA: http://www.organduo.lt Today's guest is my long time friend - Swedish organ expert and organist Göran Grahn who is active as organ consultant, making programs for restorations and newbuilding of pipe organs. He is also the secretary of International Society of Organbuilders, a society of around 300 organ builde...

SOP Podcast 32 - Krzyzstof Urbaniak On The Danzig Organ Culture Of The 18th Century (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius, DMA) Secrets of Organ Playing - Helping Reach Your Dreams in Organ Playing: http://www.organduo.lt Relevant links: Daniel Magnus Gronau - Choral Variations for Organ (edited by Martin Rost and Krzyzstof Urbaniak): http://www.ortus-musikverlag.de/index.php/produktdetails.en/product/om19...

SOP Podcast 31 - Pieter Dirksen On The Organ Works Of Sweelinck And Scheidemann Welcome to episode 31 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast! http://www.organduo.lt/podcast Today's guest is Dr. Pieter Dirksen performs as soloist on both harpsichord and organ and as continuo player with diverse chamber ensembles. He completed his musicological studies with honours in 1987 and since then published wide...

SOP Podcast 30 - Joris Verdin On Performance Practice In The Organ Works Of Cesar Franck Welcome to episode # 30 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast! Today's guest is Joris Verdin, organist, musicologist, and composer from Belgium. He teaches organ at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and is professor of organology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has recorded over forty CDs as a soloist,...

SOP Podcast #29 - John Higgins: "If I can do it then anyone can!" (Part 2) Secrets of Organ Playing: http://www.organduo.lt Welcome to episode 28 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast! Today's guest is John Higgins from Whyalla, South Australia, a mechanical engineer by profession, who is so much in love with pipe organ that he plays recitals and tries to raise funds to restore valuable historical o...

SOP Podcast #28 - John Higgins: "If I can do it then anyone can!" (Part 1) Secrets of Organ Playing: http://www.organduo.lt Welcome to episode 28 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast! Today's guest is John Higgins from Whyalla, South Australia, a mechanical engineer by profession, who is so much in love with pipe organ that he plays recitals and tries to raise funds to restore valuable historical o...

SOP Podcast #27 - Vidas Pinkevicius On the Improvisation "the Legend About The Founding Of Vilnius" Secrets of Organ Playing - Helping Reach Your Dreams in Organ Playing: http://www.organduo.lt Would you like to know more about organ practice? If so, download my video practice guide "How to Master Any Organ Composition" and learn to play any organ piece up to 10 times faster: http://www.organduo.l...

SOP Podcast #26 Ausra Motuzaite-Pinkeviciene on Harmony for Organists (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius) Secrets of Organ Playing - Helping Reach Your Dreams in Organ Playing: http://www.organduo.lt Would you like to know more about organ practice? If so, download my video practice guide "How to Master Any Organ Composition" and learn to play any organ piece up to 10 times faster: http://www.organduo.l...

SOP Podcast #25 - Martin Pasi On Building Organs And Giving Back (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius) Welcome to episode 25 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast! Today's guest is Martin Pasi, a founder and owner of Pasi Organ Builders, a company which is located south of Seattle in Roy, Washington. Martin Pasi received his first formal experience in organ building during a four year apprenticeship with th...

SOP Podcast #24 - Paul Cienniwa On The Art Of Memorizing Music (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius) A resident of Fall River, Massachusetts, Paul Cienniwa leads an active musical life in southeastern Massachusetts and the Boston/Providence regions as an organist, harpsichordist, and conductor. He is director of music at First Church in Boston, where he plays the three-manual Casavant organ (Op. 3140), th...

SOP Podcast #23 - Beth Zucchino On Managing Concert Organists (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius) Welcome to episode 23 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast! Today's guest is Beth Zucchino, who is the founder and director of Concert Artist Cooperative, an international association of soloists and ensembles which has been advertising together for going on 27 years. ​She is also the designer and caretaker...

Welcome to episode 21 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast! (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius from Secrets of Organ Playing - http://www.organduo.lt) ​Today's guest is Ad Wammes (b. 1953) - a Dutch composer of numerous instrumental, chamber, and choral works who recently has published a fascinating piece "Ride in a High-Speed Train" for organ. As a composer he in earlier times wrote music for 5 Sesame S...

SOP Podcast #22 - Pieter Van Dijk About World - Famous Organs At Saint Laurenskerk In Alkmaar, The Netherlands (hoested by Vidas Pinkevicius) Welcome to episode 22 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast! Today's guest is Pieter van Dijk, a master Dutch organist and pedagogue. Pieter van Dijk (1958) studied organ with Bert Matter at the Arnhem Conservatory. He continued his studies with Gustav Leonhar...

SOP Podcast #20: Michael Johnston and John Apple about what it takes to make old organ music live again (Part 2) Listen to Part 1 here: http://www.organduo.lt/podcast/sop-podcast-19-michael-johnston-and-john-apple-about-what-it-takes-to-make-old-organ-music-live-again-part-1 Today's guests are Michael Johnston and John Apple, American organists from Michael's Music Service, a blog and website dedi...

SOP Podcast #19: Michael Johnston and John Apple about what it takes to make old organ music live again (Part 1) - hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius Today's guests are Michael Johnston and John Apple, American organists from Michael's Music Service, a blog and website dedicated to making old organ music live again. In this conversation they will share their ideas about what it takes to restore, reprint,...

SOP Podcast #18 - Michael Hammer: "If you have something to say and you want to say it, then you don't really have a choice" (Hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius) Welcome to episode 18 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast! Today's guest is Dr. Michael Hammer, an American organist, pianist, composer, improviser, church musician, and a fellow blogger. He is the creator of the blog "Pianonoise" and works as a...

SOP Podcast #17 - Roger Sherman On Recording Organ Music And Bach: Under The Influence (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius) Relevant links: The Gothic Catalog (includes CDs on Loft, Gothic, Clarion, reZound, and WNC): www.gothic-catalog.com Bach: Under the Influence: http://www.gothic-catalog.com/Bach_Under_the_influence_p/lrcd-1156-oi.htm The Organ Loft radio program: http://www.gothic-catalog.com/The_O...

SOP Podcast #16 - Teisutis Makacinas About His Organ Works(translated by Vidas Pinkevicius) Relevant link: Festive Sonata-Symphony (2015) by Teisutis Makacinas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR5_PXF2oLw Part I - Allegro Part II - Moderato Part III - Vivo Performed live at Vilnius University St. John's church on 2015-10-10. Secrets of Organ Playing - Helping Reach Your Dreams in Organ Playing: ht...