Christoph Bull, Organist, Organica Series (multi-media events)

Christoph Bull grew up in Mannheim, Germany, where he started giving organ concerts at age 12.
He’s now University Organist and organ professor at UCLA.
He has been concertizing internationally, including Russia and India, and performed on the pipe organs at the Catholic Cathedrals of Moscow, Salzburg, Saint-Denis, and Los Angeles, as well as giving the most public organ performances at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and playing rock clubs such as The Roxy, The Whisky, and The Viper Room in Los Angeles.
His concerts, which include eclectic multi-media events such as his organica series, are designed to bring the organ to a wider audience, including young and old and music lovers from various backgrounds.
Outside of music, he won the German National Youth Championship in Baseball with his team BC Tornados Mannheim, and just ran his fourth L.A. Marathon.

Contact: cbull@ucla.edu or xoph@earthlink.net, www.christophbull.com, www.myspace.com/xophbull, Facebook

References from AGO Chapters that have invited me for concerts include:
Susan Panciera, susanpanciera@bostonavenue.org (AGO Tulsa, OK)
Lea Schmidt-Rogers, lrogers4@san.rr.com (AGO San Diego, CA)
Shirley and Ivan Foster, ifoster@bak.rr.com (AGO Bakersfield, CA)

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Florence Rousseau, Organ Recitalist, Chamber Music

Florence Rousseau began study at Rouen University and graduated in 1998 from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon with a highly commended Diploma National d"Etudes Supérieurs Musicales. At Caen Conservatoire, she obtained a gold medal for harpsichord performance. After obtaining the prestigious Certificat d'Aptitude diploma for organ-teaching, she was appointed professor of organ at Brest Conservatoire and later at the Conservatoire in Dieppe. She is a frequent recitalist, both as a soloist and in chamber music with vocal and instrumental ensembles.

More Information Email Ms. Rousseau

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Harold Pysher, Recitalist, Soloist

Harold Pysher is a graduate of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, where he earned both a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance and a Master of Music degree in Church Music.  His studies have included work with Joan Lippincott, James Litton, Eugene Roan, and Erik Routley.

He has served as Associate Organist at Trinity Church, Princeton, New Jersey (1972–1978); as Organist and Choirmaster at Calvary Church, Williamsville, New York (1978–1987); and as Associate to the Rector for Music and Liturgy here at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach, since the fall of 1987.

Among the many recitals he has presented are those at St. Thomas Church, The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and St. Bartholomew’s Church—all in New York City—and at Longwood Gardens, the Princeton University Chapel, and the Chautauqua Institution.  He also has appeared as organ soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Palm Beach Symphony. pysher@bbts.org    561-835-9904, x4

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Carol Williams, Concert Organist, San Diego Civic Organist

British born, Carol's formal training started with the Royal Academy of Music. She was awarded all the major prizes for organ performing and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, a Fellow of Trinity College London, plus an Associate of the Royal College of Music. Carol received a D.M.A. degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Carol gives a new spin to classical organ concerts with her charismatic humor. International audiences have received Carol's live performances with a 'rock star' enthusiasm.

International Email Contact 01905616100 More Information

Management Information for the USA: Kerry Bell, Personal Manager, 919.341.8120 www.CarolWilliamsNow.com

Reply to: management@melcot.com Email Carol Williams

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Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin

Organ Recitalist, Master Classes of Improvisation, Judge in International and National Organ Competitions

Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin studied organ with Roland Falcinelli at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris. She was awarded first prizes in five categories. She is Co-titular of the Grand Orgue of Saint Sulpice, Paris with Daniel Roth. She is the first woman to win the second prize in improvisation at the Chartres International Organ Improvisation Competition. Sophie-Véronique has an extensive international career and is regularly invited as a judge in national and international organ competitions.

www.festivo.nl/sophieveroniquecaucheferchoplin/ ssssEmail

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Johan Hermans, Organ, Duo Cello & Orgel

Johan Hermans is at the front of his generation of organits in Europe. He owes his reputation to successful recital performances around the world. He masters a vast repertoire containing works from the 14th to the 21st century and premiered new organ compositions dedicated to him. He teaches at the Conservatory of Hasselt, Belgium and iscathedral organist of St. Quintinus Cathedral and serves as Civic Organist in the same city. +32 (0) 11 24 22 38

Email Mr. Hermans http://users.skynet.be/johan.hermans/index.htm

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Paul Jacobs, Organ Recitalist, Chairman of the Organ Department of The Juilliard School.

Paul Jacobs made musical history at the age of 23 when, on the 250th anniversary of the death of J. S. Bach in 2000, he played the composer's complete organ music in an 18-hour nonstop marathon in Pittsburgh. Hailed throughout the world for his solid musicianship and prodigious technique, Mr. Jacobs is widely acknowledged for reinvigorating the American organ scene with a fresh performance style and "an unbridled joy of music-making" (Baltimore Sun). He has performed the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen and has been praised by the Chicago Tribune as "one of the most supremely gifted young organists of this generation". Mr. Jacobs studied with John Weaver at the Curtis Institute and Thomas Murray at Yale.School of Music. Contact Angela Duryea 212.315.1300

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Domenico Morgante (Monopoli, 21 January 1956) is a italian musicologist, organist, harpsichordist and composer.

It is known internationally as one of the leading specialists in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque music. His studies (about one hundred) are published in leading magazines and major encyclopaedias (such as the Universal Encyclopedic Dictionary of Music and Musicians of UTET) and translated into several foreign languages.

Organ and harpsichord performer, was studied under Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and Colin Tilney, and has also studied with Gustav Leonhardt, Marie Claire Alain, Michael Radulescu, Peter Williams, Sergio Vartolo and Wijnand van de Pol

Graduated in organ and harpsichord, with a degree in Musicology, specializing in Science Education. As a researcher and philologist has worked on various musical projects in Europe, while conducting educational activity in the Conservatory and the University. Has performed the critical recovery and restoration of many early music compositions.

He has numerous recordings and various holdings in radio and television (it noteworthy are the recordings for RAI and Radio Vaticana). In the late sixties, was among the first in Italy to deal with philological interpretation of ancient music and the concert with historical instruments, quickly gaining a reputation of international renown, devoted several awards (New York, Leipzig, Utrecht, Tirana, Rome, Florence, Pistoia, Ferrara, Pesaro, Reggio Calabria, Martina Franca, etc..).

He directed the restoration of historical keyboard instruments (De Simone Cimino, Broadwood, Hoffman, etc..), collaborating on various occasions with the Ministry of Culture and Environment. He has also held teaching and research at the Institute of History of Music and the Aesthetics of the University of Bari

He was Professor of Musicology and performing practice in the Foundation "Niccolò Piccinni" in Bari and artistic director of the International Festival of Early Music, has taught many courses on interpretation of historical keyboards. By then, a historian, writer and composer, alongside a comprehensive business interpreter, performer and director of vocal and instrumental.

It was the first European researcher to study and publish musical relationships existed between Italy and Albania in the Age of the Renaissance. As musicologist must also rediscover historic very considerable importance for the author studied the Flemish madrigalist Jachet de Berchem.

He is the founder, director and harpsichordist of the ensemble of ancient music, "Accademia degli Armonici". Is Professor of Italian Language and Literature Academy and teaches in Organ Academy "Giacomo Insanguine" of Monopoli. For the relevance of its teaching activities in Organ he was awarded the prestigious Premio Abbiati Italian Music Critics (Fiesole, 2008).
M° Prof. Dr. Domenico Morgantewww.domenicomorgante.it

via M. K. Gandhi, 32

70043 Monopoli (BA) Italy

Tel. 080/808389

Cell. 333/1106431

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