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| 1988 | Marianne Webb, Carbondale, Illinois; |
| 1989 | David Dahl, Tacoma, Washington; |
| 1990 | James Higdon, Lawrence, Kansas; |
| 1991 | Bruce Neswick, formerly of Buffalo, New York; |
| 1992 | Lionel Rogg, Geneva, Switzerland; |
| 1993 | Karel Paukert, Cleveland, Ohio; |
| 1994 | Craig Cramer, Mishawaka, Indiana; |
| 1995 | Quentin Faulkner |
Quentin Faulkner is Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His undergraduate work was at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, and his graduate study at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He was awarded a doctorate degree from Union Theological Seminary, New York City. He holds the associate degree in the American Guild of Organists. Dr. Faulkner served for many years as assistant organist to the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City. He has translated significant treatises pertaining to organ playing and is the author of many important essays, including J.S. Bach's Keyboard Technique: An Historical Introduction. Quentin Faulkner also is director of the annual organ conference sponsored by the Department of Music at the University of Nebraska.
Craig Cramer is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Notre Dame and also serves as organist at First English Lutheran Church in Mishawaka, Indiana.
Mr. Cramer holds degrees from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey and the Eastman School of Music, where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance. The Eastman School also awarded him the prestigious Performer's Certificate in Organ. He has studied with Russell Saunders, William Hays, James Drake, and André Marchal. Cramer has been named the winner of several competitions, including the Alexander McCurdy Competition in Organ Performance at Westminster Choir College and the National Organ Com-petition at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Wayne, Indi-ana.
Having performed in thirty-five states across the country, Cramer is well-known as a solo recitalist. He has performed for conventions of the American Guild of Organ-ists and has appeared as a soloist with the Toledo Sym-phony, the South Bend Chamber Orchestra, the South Bend Symphony, the Notre Dame Chamber Orchestra, and the Eastman Philharmonia. Mr. Cramer is currently performing the complete organ works of Bach in an eighteen-concert series using a distinguished set of mechanical-action organs within the state of Indiana. In June, 1993, Mr. Cramer made his second tour of Europe, playing nine concerts in Germany and Belgium. In the summer of 1992 he recorded a collection of twentieth-century French music at the Cathedral in Angouleme, France.
Mr. Cramer is married to the organist Gail Walton, with whom he frequently plays duo recitals.
Karel Paukert was born in Czechoslovakia. He is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory and of the Royal Conservatory in Ghent, Belgium. His teachers include organists Jan Bedrich Krajs and Gabriel Verschraegen, oboist Frantisek Hantak, and conductor Vaclav Talich. After leaving his native country, he was principal oboist with the Iceland National Symphony Orchestra and later deputy organist of St. Bavon Cathedral in Ghent. He then emigrated to the United States and became an American citizen in 1972.
Karel Paukert has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Northwestern University in Evanston, and The Cleveland Institute of Music. Many of his students have won prizes, awards, and Fulbright grants. During his tenure at Northwestern, he was also organist at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Evanston.
In April 1991, Karel Paukert returned to his native Czechoslovakia after almost thirty years to play a series of recitals in churches and concert halls. The Prague daily newspaper "Lidova Demokracie" wrote of his "triumphant return" following a three concert series in that city. His performances have been acclaimed internationally for their perception, vibrancy, and excitement.
Karel Paukert currently is Chief Curator of Musical Arts at The Cleveland Museum of Art, where he directs the year-round performing arts series and plays some thirty recitals each season. He also appears throughout the United States and in Europe and Japan. His energetic devotion to the enlargement of organ repertoire has encouraged composers to write works for him, which he often features in his programs. He is also organist and choirmaster of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights.
Last year, Mr. Paukert was a featured artist at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organist in Atlanta. In September he represented the American organ scene at the Second International Organ Competition in Tokyo, Japan.
Lionel Rogg was born in 1936 of Swiss parents and completed his musical studies at the Geneva Conservatory, where he obtained the First Prize with Distinction in Organ (1956), in the class of Pierre Segond, and the following year, the First Prize in Piano, in the class of Nikita Magaloff.
After having played both in-struments for a certain time, he devoted himself to the study of J.S. Bach's com-plete organ works, which he presented, at the age of 25, in 10 recitals at Victoria Hall, Geneva. These series of concerts met a memorable success, and marked the debut of an exceptionally brilliant career.
Since then, Lionel Rogg has been acclaimed around the world as one of the leading performers of his generation. He has played in all the major cities of Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, and more recently in the USSR, in Japan and South Africa. A regular guest of the Royal Festival Hall organ concert series in London, he has also given concerts at Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, at NHK Hall in Tokyo, at Alice Tully Hall in New York, etc.
Lionel Rogg teaches at the Conservatory of Geneva, where his organ class attracts students from all over the world. He is frequently invited to give master classes at famous universities such as Cambridge, Oxford in England, Harvard, Northwestern, etc. in the USA.
Among his numerous recordings are three versions of the complete organ works by Bach. His recording of the "Art of the Fugue" (version for organ) was awarded the grand Prix du Disque in 1970. His recording of the complete Buxtehude organ works received in 1980 the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis.
A brilliant improvise, Lionel Rogg has composed works for voice, chorus, organ, piano, chamber music, and he is the author of a course in counter-point. He has been commissioned by the "Ville de Geneve" for composing a concert for organ and orchestra for the dedication of the new organ of the Victoria Hall in 1993.
Bruce Neswick, Organist-Choirmaster of Saint Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, Is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, and the Yale School of Music. His organ teachers have Included David Dahl, Margaret Irwin-Brandon, Robert poker. and Gerre Hancock. At Yale, he served as Director of Music at the Divinity School Chapel, music editor of the Divinity School Hymnal and accompanist for the Yale Concert Choir. He was the first apprentice in church music at Trinity Church, New York City and was later appointed visiting Instructor in Church Music at General Theological Seminary. Mr. Neswick was a member of the committee that helped to prepare the Episcopal Church's new hymnal in which several of his compositions appear.
James Higdon Is Professor of Organ and Director of the Division Of Organ and Church Music at the University of Kansas. He holds the Bachelor of Music degree from St. Olaf College. the Master of Music degree from Northwestern University and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music. His organ study includes work with Edmund Ladouceur, Robert Kendall, Karol Paukert, David Craighead and Russell Saunders. In addition. Mr. Higdon has studied with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris as part of a special research grant from the University of Kansas.
Dr. Higdon has made several recordings of French organ music. James Higdon has played for several regional conventions of The American Guild of Organists Including the 1989 convention in Minneapolis. Ho is represented by Phyllis Stringham Concert Management.
David Dahl is Professor of Music and University Organist at Pacific Lutheran University, and Director of Music Ministries at Christ Episcopal Church, both in Tacoma, Washington, positions he has held since 1970. He holds a M.A. and is a member of the A.A.G.O. An active performer, clinician and organ advisor for over thirty years, Dahl was a recitalist for the 1994 National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in Dallas, Texas, and has performed several times for national conventions of the Organ Historical Society. He has had a lifelong interest in the history of organ building, particularly the developments of mechanical action organs in America. He has served in an advisory capacity for over 30 pipe organ projects, primarily new or historic tracker instruments. Dahl can be heard on a variety of recordings released by PLU Records and Tapes, and by the Organ Historical Society. These include J.S. Bach and the Chorale: Celebration in Hymn, The Grand Century: Organ Music of the Late Baroque, and David Dahl plays the Brombaugh Organ at Christ Church, Tacoma, Wa. (OHS Convention, 1982). He has published organ and choral works through Ionian Arts and Augsburg/Fortress.
Marianne Webb is Professor of Music and University Organist at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. A native of Topeka, she received her early training in organ from Richard M. Gayhart. She continued her study as a pupil of Jerald Hamilton at Washburn University where she earned the Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude.
Miss Webb holds the Master of Music degree in organ from the University of Michigan where she was a scholarship student of Marilyn Mason. A Fulbright Grant enabled her to continue her study in Paris, France, with André Marchal, internationally known recitalist and teacher. Further graduate study was with Arthur Poister at Syracuse University.
As a concert artist, Marianne Webb has toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe. In addition to these performances, she maintains an active schedule of workshops, master classes, and seminar leader for church music conferences. A member of the American Guild of Organists, she has served in various chapter offices.
Prior to her appointment in 1965 to the faculty of SIU at Carbondale, Miss Webb served on the music faculties of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, and James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia
In private life, Miss Webb is married to Dr. David N. Bateman, Professor of Administrative Sciences in the College of Business and Administration at SIU at Carbondale.
Miss Webb concertizes under the management of Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, Hartford, Connecticut.
The ISU Organ Weekend events are funded, in part, by the Alvin Edgar Fund for the Performing Arts, a part of the Iowa State University Foundation and with support of the Ames Community Arts Council and the Commission on the Arts.
Anyone wishing to contribute to the ISU Organ Weekend may do so by sending a check to the ISU Achievement Foundation designated for Organ Performance Fund, ISU Achievement Foundation, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011. Most contributions are tax deductible.
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