Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast

Dr. Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra is an American organist, educator, composer, and a world-renown expert on improvising in the Bach style who is very interested in the world of creativity. In today's conversation she will share with us her ideas from her latest project - 4 volume a cappella songs for children called "The Muse". ​ "We try to speak to the heart and soul of what is most important: character...

Frank Mento shares his insights on harpsichord playing for organists (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius, DMA) Relevant link: http://methode-clavecin.fr 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 piec...

SOP Podcast #13 - Vidas Pinkevicius' Demonstration Of The Largest Pipe Organ In Lithuania

SOP Podcast #12 - Colin Andrews on Preparation for Organ Recitals (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius) Relevant links: http://www.concertartistcooperative.com/andrews.html https://www.google.lt/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=colin%20andrews%20organist https://play.spotify.com/artist/3NYom7SNN7mZtyqvfiDvUO Secrets of Organ Playing - Helping Reach Your Dreams in Organ Playing: http:/...

SOP Podcast #11- Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin on the French Tradition of Organ Improvisation (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius) Relevant link: http://caucheferchoplin.com/

SOP Podcast #10 - Michael Bauer on the Arts Ministry in the 21st Century (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius) Relevant links: Dr. Michael Bauer's profile on the University of Kansas website: https://music.ku.edu/michael-bauer Arts Ministry: Nurturing the Creative Life of God's People: http://amzn.to/1L5lyiQ

SOP Podcast #9 - Matthias Schneider (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius, DMA) shares his insights about the church music at the time of the Reformation in the areas around the Baltic sea. Relevant links: Greifswald University: http://uni-greifswald.de Geselschaft der Orgelfreunde: http://www.gdo.de Secrets of Organ Playing - Helping Reach Your Dreams in Organ Playing: http://www.organduo.lt Would you lik...

Internationally acclaimed Dutch organist and improviser Sietze de Vries shares his inspiring insights about improvisation on the organ (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius). Relevant links:

SOP Podcast #7: Janis Kalnins on Latvian Organ Culture (hosted by Vidas Pinkevicius) Relevant links: http://www.pipeorgans.lv http://www.pianoforte.lv 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...

Vidas Pinkevicius conversation with Hans-Ola Ericsson, a world-renown Swedish organist, pedagogue, and composer, currently the head of organ and church music department at McGill University in Canada. He shares his expertise and insights on modern organ music, the music of Bach, earlier music, his compositions, and of course his interest in the nature of sound, because he is also the creator of St...

Vidas Pinkevicius' conversation with two experts of Bach organ music - Dr. Mary Murrell Faulkner and Dr. Quentin Faulkner. They have just returned from their 4th trip to Central Germany where they led Bach's Organ World tour. Today they share their insights and wisdom about the instruments that Bach played or visited, about performance of his music, and what it feels to sit on the same bench that...

Vidas Pinkevicius' conversation with the organist, improviser, pedagogue, and composer Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra about Vol. 1 of her book "Bach and the Art of Improvisation". In this episode Pamela shares her insights about improvising in the Bach style various chorale-based works.

Vidas Pinkevicius's conversation with the Dutch composer Jan Karman about his project to write organ fugues based on the melodies of the Genevan Psalter. Also in this show Jan reveals his compositional process of writing fugues and gives inspiration and advice to students who would also like to compose fugues.

Vidas Pinkevicius' conversation with George Ritchie, an internationally acclaimed organist and Bach expert about his interest in organ music, Bach, creativity, Avantgarde organ music, and his all-Bach recordings as well as the Art of Fugue project.

Vidas Pinkevicius interviews an organ builder Gene Bedient who shares his insights about the art of organ building. Gene Bedient started the Bedient Pipe Organ company over 40 years ago. He based the company on a combined love of all things technical and music. Over the course of this journey, Bedient made more than 80 organs throughout the US that are a legacy of craftsmanship, artwork, technical...