Presented by: Anne Marsden Thomas, MBE, BMus, FRCO, FRSCM, ARAM and Frederick Stocken, PhD Location: Hyatt Regency - Hanover E Most students concentrate on learning pieces, postponing the study of keyboard skills until full-time training, diplomas, or church requirements prompt an intensive catch-up course. Instead of this fear-inducing and confidence-sapping approach to learning keyboard skills, […]

Presented by: David A. Stech, PhD Location: Hyatt Regency - Inman Dr. Stech will discuss his ongoing project to discover obscure and rare sound recordings of organ improvisations performed by renowned French organist Marcel Dupré (1886-1971). A brief discussion regarding the techniques used to transcribe and reconstruct music score engravings for publication will follow. Also […]

Location: Hyatt Regency - Regency V

Presented by: Vicki Schaeffer, DMus, Chair of the Board of Regional Councillors Location: Hyatt Regency - Learning Center How did you get where you are? What skills do you think are crucial to our careers as organists and church musicians? Who were your mentors? What can we do to support and encourage those who are […]

Presented by: Derek Remeš, MM, MA Location: Hyatt Regency - Hanover B Recent archival discoveries have begun to alter long-standing assumptions about the methods and materials of J.S. Bach’s pedagogy. It was not the ornate, four-part, vocal Choralgesänge that played the central role in Bach’s teaching, but rather simpler thoroughbass chorale harmonizations at the keyboard. […]

Presented by: Joseph Golden, MM Location: Hyatt Regency - Hanover F A workshop/demonstration that will focus on lifting hymn playing to the highest standards expected of all keyboard playing in the popular realm of Collaborative Arts, presented by a member of the AGO and the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). Emphasis will be […]

Presenter: Elizabeth George Location: Hyatt Regency - Dunwoody This is a training session for all AGO District Conveners.