Workshop

Presented by: Alexander Meszler, MM Location: Hyatt Regency - Learning Center Secularity in the United States is on the rise. Though the organ faces many obstacles in the twenty-first century — a shortage of organists, financial troubles and declining interest in classical music, among others — no other issue is as all-encompassing and as serious […]

Presented by: Steven Young, DMA, AAGO Location: Hyatt Regency - Dunwoody The year 2020 will commemorate the 170th anniversary of the birth of Aloÿs Claussmann (1850- 1926). Claussmann, a student of Eugene Gigout, spent his career in a province outside of the mainstream musical life of Paris and devoted himself to performing and teaching the […]

Presented by: David Pickering, DMA Location: Hyatt Regency - Hanover F Icons Harold Gleason and Catharine Crozier used their gifts as teachers, performers, and scholars to contribute significantly to raising the standard of organ performance and teaching in the United States. This workshop will give brief biographical synopses, discuss the similarities and differences of both […]

Presented by: Faythe Freese, DM Location: Hyatt Regency - Hanover E The year 2020 marks the quasquicentennial of Leo Sowerby, the American organist, composer, and church musician often referred to as the "Dean of American Church Music" in the early to mid-20th Century. This workshop will focus on the three compositional periods of organ plus […]

Location: Hyatt Regency - Regency V

Presented by: Leslie Wolf Robb and Dr. Zach Klobnak, members of the Committee on Pipe Organ Encounters Location: Hyatt Regency - Courtland This presentation will focus on teaching strategies for working with pianists transitioning to the organ, a brief introduction to the four types of Pipe Organ Encounters (POE,) reasons a chapter should consider hosting […]

Presented by: Charles Tighe, MM Location: Hyatt Regency - Hanover B Explore ways to use pitched and unpitched instruments to supplement choral instruction in a liturgical setting. Topics addressed: working with beat; rhythm, rhythmical stress, and meter; and teaching pitch and intervals using movement, body percussion, and pitched instruments. This program is particularly useful to […]

Presented by: Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Location: Hyatt Regency - Regency VII There was only one Robert Shaw. His supreme intellect, his force of personality, his musicianship, his standards for study and performance, and his dynamic vision for the place of the arts in modern society literally transformed the lives of […]

Presented by: Julian Wachner Location: Johns Creek United Methodist Church Transportation Information 6:00 PM - 6:40 PM   Buses depart for the Hyatt Regency Program Julian Wachner will provide a post-concert lecture about his composition and performance by Trinity Wall Street Choir.

Location: Hyatt Regency - Regency V