NORTH MEETS SOUTH:

BUXTEHUDE AND THE NORTH GERMAN SCHOOL/

KEYBOARD MUSIC OF DOMENICO SCARLATTI

A SYMPOSIUM IN RECOGNITION OF TWO SIGNIFICANT RECENT ANNIVERSARIES

 

Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society 2008 Annual Meeting

May 21-24, 2008

The University of Iowa

School of Music

Iowa City, Iowa  USA

 

 

Plan to join us for this exciting conference!

 

CHECK OUT EXTENDED SCHEDULE WITH NEW EVENTS

FOR SATURDAY, MAY 24 (BELOW)

 

FEATURED PERFORMERS

  • Pieter-Jan Belder, Holland
  • Craig Cramer, South Bend, IN
  • Delbert Disselhorst, Iowa City, IA
  • Iowa Baroque Players, Iowa City, IA
  • David Schrader, Chicago, IL
  • Brett Wolgast, Iowa City, IA

 

Exhibits of early keyboard instruments by the 21st century's premier builders

 

Organs by Taylor & Boody, Casavant, Brombaugh, Schlicker

 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION about this conference, contact David C. Kelzenberg, <david-kelzenberg@uiowa.edu>

 

 

 

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FINAL, MAY 6, 2008!

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

VOXMAN MUSIC BUILDING (VMB)

Harper Hall (HH):  Lectures, paper sessions, mini-recitals, concerts.

Choral Rehearsal Room (CRR):  Iowa Baroque Players concert

Dixon Hall (DH):  Exhibits, Silent Auction

Krapf Recital Hall (KH):  Organ concerts and events

Clapp Recital Hall (CRH):  masterclass, concerts

 

IOWA MEMORIAL UNION (IMU)

North Room:  Opening reception

State Room:  Banquet, annual meeting

 

 

DETAILED SCHEDULE

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2008

 

2:00 – 7:00 PM:  Registration, HH; Exhibitor set-up, DH

 

3:00 – 5:00 PM:  MHKS Board of Directors Meeting, 2032 VMB

 

5:00 – 7:00 PM:  Dinner on your own

 

7:30 PM:  Opening Concert:  David Schrader, keyboards, HH

 

9:00 PM (or after concert):  Opening Reception, North Room, IMU

 

 

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PROGRAM

 

Sonata in D Major, K. 96                                             Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Sonata in C Major, K. 460

Sonata in C Major, K. 461

 

Praeludium in g, BuxWV 163                                        Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

 

Sonata in F, no. 63 (Rubio catalogue)                           Antonio Soler  (1729-1783)

Cantabile

Allegro

Intento

 

INTERMISSION

 

Two sonatas in c, K. 115, 116                                      Scarlatti

 

Ouverture in D                                                  Georg Böhm  (1661-1733)

Ouverture

Air

Rigaudon and Trio

Rondeau

Menuet

Chaconne

 

Fandango                                                                     Soler (attrib.)

 

David Schrader, keyboards

 

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THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2008

 

8:00 – 9:00 am:  Registration, HH; Exhibitor set-up, DH

 

9:00 – 9:05 am:  Welcome, Introduction of Craig Cramer; HH

 

9:05 – 10:00 am:  Keynote Address:  Craig Cramer (South Bend, IN), "Unifying Devices in the Praeludium in E Minor, BuxWV 142, or What did the young J. S. Bach learn from his teacher?", HH

 

10:00 – 10:30 am:  Coffee Break; Registration

 

10:30 am– 12:30 PM:  Paper/mini-recital session 1, HH (Moderator:  Greg Crowell)

 

            10:30   Mary Heiden:  "Roseingrave and the Rest:  The Championing of Scarlatti in England"

 

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11:00   Sandra Mangsen, harpsichord

 

PROGRAM

The Lady’s Entertainment and Babell’s Delight: Arias for the keyboard 1708–1717

From  The Lady’s Entertainment, vol I.

A Prelude

“Can you leave Rang’ing”

“Ever Merry Gay and Ayry”
both tunes were sung by Mrs. Lindsey in Thomyris (Drury Lane, 1707)

From The Lady’s Entertainment, vol 4

Overture to Hydaspes

“E vano”

“Mostro crudel”
both sung by Signor Nicolini in Nydaspes, Haymarket (1710)

From Babell’s Suits (1717), Third Set

Prelude

“Si lieto si contento,” Antiochus (Gasparini, 1712)

“Nume alato,” Etearco (Bononcini, 1711)

“Hor che la tromba,” Rinaldo (Handel, 1711)
all sung by Signor Nicolini in the London stage productions

 

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11:30         David Sutherland:  "The Piano as Performance Medium for Some Scarlatti Sonatas"

 

12:00         David Kelzenberg:  "Scarlatti's Prolific Legacy:  The Mt. Everest of Recording Projects"

 

 

12:30 – 1:45 PM:  Lunch on your own

 

1:45 – 3:45 PM:  Paper/mini-recital session 2, HH (Moderator:  David Kelzenberg)

 

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1:45     Martha Folts, harpsichord

 

PROGRAM

 

Selections from the Essercisi of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

 

K. 1 in d minor

K. 3 in a minor

K. 6 in F Major

K. 18 in d minor

K. 17 in F Major

K. 19 in f minor

K. 28 in E Major

K. 25 in f# minor

K. 23 in D Major

 

 

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2:15     Sonia Lee, harpsichord

 

PROGRAM

 

Harpsichord Works by Dieterich Buxtehude and His Contemporaries

 

Toccata in G, BuxWV 164                                                       Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

 

Suite in sol mineur, from Second Livre do clavessin (?1687)      Nicolas Lebègue (c. 1631-1702)/

(BuxWV S. 13)                                                                        Dieterich Buxtehude

            Allemande

            2e Allemande

            Courante

            Sarabande

            Rondeau

            Gigue

            Passacaille

            Minuet

            Gavotte

            Gavotte

            Minuet

 

Präludium, Fuge, and Postludium in g minor                                           Georg Böhm (1661-1733)

 

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2:45     Paul Irvin, "New/Old Approaches in Harpsichord Building"

 

3:15     Alan Cole (DH), "No-Fear Workshop:  Replacing a Broken String"

 

3:45 – 4:15 PM:  Coffee Break

 

4:15 – 4:30 PM:  Introduction of 2008 Ben Bechtel award winner, DH

            Jeffrey Wood, Oberlin College

 

4:30 – 5:15 PM:  Instrument Demonstration, DH

 

5:15 – 6:00 PM:  Exhibits open; visit exhibits, DH

 

6:00 PM:  Dinner on your own

 

8:00 PM:  Recital:  Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord, HH (Group A)

            Recital:  Craig Cramer, organ, KH (Group B)

 

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PROGRAM

 

Toccata IX (primo libro)                                               Girolamo Frescobaldi

5 Gagliardas

 

Diferencias sobre el canto de                                        Antonio de Cabezon

"La Dama le demanda"

 

Toccata VI (FbWV 112)                                              Johann Jakob Froberger

Canzon II (FbWV 302)

 

Preambulum in g minor BuxWv 163                  Dieterich Buxtehude

 

Italian Concerto BWV 971                                           J. S. Bach

no tempo indication

andante

presto

 

INTERMISSION

 

Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti

 

Sonate K. 18, presto

 

Sonate K. 215, andante

Sonate K. 216, allegro

 

Sonate K. 415, pastorale allegro

Sonate K. 416, presto

 

Sonate K. 238

Sonate K. 239

 

Sonate K. 461, allegro

 

 

Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord

 

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PROGRAM

 

Music of Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

 

 

Praeludium in C, BuxWV 136

 

Ach Gott und Herr (2 versus), BuxWV 177

Canzona in C, BuxWV 166

Von Gott will ich nicht lassen, BWV 221

 

Ciacona in e, BuxWV 160

 

Praeludium in F, BuxWV 145

 

 

INTERMISSION

 

 

Praeludium in G (manualiter), BuxWV 162

 

Gott der Vater wohn uns bei, BuxWV 190

Canzona d-moll, BuxWV 168

Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich, BuxWV 202

 

Aria in C mit Variationen, BuxWV 246

 

Toccata in d, BuxWV 155

 

Craig Cramer, organ

 

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FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2008

 

8:00-9:00 am:  Registration for single day registrants, HH

 

9:00 – 9:05 am:  Welcome, Introduction of Pieter-Jan Belder, HH

 

9:05 – 10:00 am:  Keynote Address:  Pieter-Jan Belder (Holland), Keyboard Music of Domenico Scarlatti, HH

 

10:00 – 10:30 am:  Coffee Break; Registration for single day registrants

 

10:30 am – 12:30 PM:  Paper/mini-recital session 3, HH (Moderator:  Martha Folts)

 

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10:30   Gail Olszewski, fortepiano

 

PROGRAM

 

Scarlatti's Legacy

 

Sonata in C, K. 132/L. 457                                                      Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Sonata in C, “Pastorale”, K. 513/L. S. 3

 

Sonata in F# minor, Op. 25 #5                                     Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)

            Piùttosto allegro con espressione

            Lento e patetico

            Presto

 

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11:00   Susanne Skyrm, fortepiano

 

PROGRAM

 

Spanish Keyboard Music from the 18th and 19th Centuries

 

Sonata No. 4 in g minor                                                Manuel Blasco de Nebra (1750-1784)

 

Sonata in B-flat (Sonata de 5o Tono Punto Bajo)          Juan Moreno y Polo (1711-1776)

 

Sonata in G Major                                                        Padre Rafael Angles (c1730-1816)

 

Andante and Variations                                     Jacinto Codina (?-1818)

 

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11:30   Ann Barnes, fortepiano

 

PROGRAM

 

Sonata in B-Flat, K. 570                                              Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

            Allegro

            Adagio

            Allegretto

 

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12:00   Richard Fountain, fortepiano

 

PROGRAM

 

Sonata in B-Flat, K. 333                                              Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Allegro

Andante cantabile

Allegretto

 

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12:30 – 1:45 PM:  Lunch on your own

 

1:45 – 3:45 PM:  Paper/mini-recital session 4, as indicated (Moderators:  Nanette Lunde/A, Susanne Skyrm/B)

 

1:45     Asako Hirabayashi (HH, Group A)/Max Yount (KH, Group B)

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Asako Hirabayashi, harpsichord

 

PROGRAM

 

Music of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

 

Sonata K. 491 in D Major

Sonata K. 492 in D Major

Sonata K. 380 in E major

Sonata K. 381 in E Major

Sonata K. 430 in D Major

Sonata K. 434 in D Minor

 

 

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Max H. Yount, organ

 

PROGRAM

 

Two canticles for organ by Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1708)

           

            Magnificat Primi Toni  BuxWV 2038

 

            Te Deum Laudamus  BuxWV 218

 

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2:15     "           (groups reversed)

 

2:45     Nina Key (HH, Group B)/I-Fang Chiang (KH, Group A)

 

Nina Key:  "Graphical Representation of Formal Schemes in the Scarlatti Sonatas"

 

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I-Fang Chiang, organ and harpsichord

 

PROGRAM

 

Sonata XXXIV in B-flat                                                           Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Sonata XL in g minor

 

Harpsichord

 

Praeludium in g minor, BuxWV 149                                          Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

 

Organ

 

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3:15     "           (groups reversed)

 

 

3:45 – 4:15 PM:  Coffee break

 

4:15 – 5:30 PM:  Concert:  Iowa Baroque Players, CRR

 

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PROGRAM

 

1.  Canzon XXI con 2 violini                                         Gregor Aichinger (1564-1628)

 

Lorraine Gillette and Michael Kimber, violins

Ed Kottick, trombone

Delbert Disselhorst, organ

 

2,  Sonata con tre violino in eco                                    Biagio Marini (1594-1663)

 

Lorraine Gillette and Michael Kimber, violins

Christine Rutledge, viola

Ed Kottick, trombone

Delbert Disselhorst, organ

 

3.  Canzon II a quattro                                                  Marini

 

Dennis Pedde, cornetto

Lorraine Gillette, violin

Christine Rutledge, viola

Ed Kottick, trombone

Delbert Disselhorst, organ

 

4. Sonata da Camera in E Minor, op. 2 no. 4                Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

Preludio (Adagio)
Allemande (Presto)

Grave (Adagio)
Giga (Allegro)

 

Lorraine Gillette and Michael Kimber, violins

Alan Huckleberry, harpsichord

 

5. Sonata No. 6 BWV 530                                           J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

(arranged for violin, viola and harpsichord by Spencer Martin)

Vivace;

Lento

Allegro

 

Lorraine Gillette, violin

Christine Rutledge, viola

Alan Huckleberry, harpsichord

 

6.  Sonata K. 380 in E Major                                       Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

     Sonata K. 1 in d minor

 

Alan Huckleberry, Harpsichord

 

7.  Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 28                               Franz Danzi (1763-1826)

Adagio; Allegro

Larghetto

Allegretto

 

Kristen Thelander, natural horn

Carol lei Breckenridge, fortepiano

 

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5:45 – 7:45 PM:  Banquet, Annual Membership Meeting, State Room, IMU

 

8:00 PM:  Recital:  Craig Cramer, organ, KH (Group A)

Recital:  Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord, HH (Group B)  Co-sponsored by the Iowa City Early Keyboard Society, open to the public.

 

9:30 PM (or after recitals):  Reception, sponsored by Iowa City Early Keyboard Society, CRR

 

 

SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2008

 

8:00 – 8:30 am: Registration for single-day registrants

 

8:30 – 9:30 am:  Masterclass:  David Schrader, Craig Cramer, Pieter-Jan Belder.  CRH (Moderator:  Paul Irvin)

                        Adam Johnson, University of Iowa (organ)

                        Marie Blair (harpsichord)

 

9:30 – 10:00 am:  Final Coffee break; Registration for single-day registrants

 

10:00 am - 12:30 PM:  Paper/mini-recital session 5, HH. (Moderator:  Paul Irvin)

 

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10:00   Nicholas Good, harpsichord

 

PROGRAM

 

Dieterich Buxtehude (c1637-1707):  Music for Harpsichord

 

Suite in C Major, BuxWV 230

 

Variations on Aria 'More Palatino,' BuxWV 247

 

Praeludium in g minor, BuxWV 163

 

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10:30   Mário Trilha, harpsichord

 

PROGRAM

 

"Music of João Cordeiro da Silva (1735-1808) - A Post-

Scarlattian Keyboard Composer in Portugal"

 

Sonata  B-flat Major (Allegro)

 

Minueti per Cembalo del Sig. Giovanni Cordeiro da Silva

 

Menuets 1-6

 

Toccata C Major D.Marianna de Portugal.(Allegro)

 

Menuets 7-12

 

 

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11:00   Charlotte Mattax, harpsichord

 

PROGRAM

 

"Music of Charles Noblet (1715-1769)"

 

Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de clavecin

 

Première Suite

Allemande

La Pétulante

La Bien-aimée

 

Deuxième Suite

La Promenade de St. Cloud

La Hongroise

La Sérieuse, Sarabande

Les Catalans

 

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11:30   Vivian Montgomery, harpsichord

 

PROGRAM

 

"Stateliness Transfigured:  The Allemande's Expressive Journey

Through Moevement and Melancholy"

 

Prelude in F Major                                                                   Louis Couperin (1626-1661)

 

Plainte faite a Londres pour passer la Melancholie,              J. J. Froberger (1616-1667)

Laquelle se jour lentement avec discretion (Suite XXX)

 

Allemande & Double (Suite II, d minor)                                    Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

 

Hollandische Nachtigal                                                           J. A. Reincken (1623-1722)

 

Allemande d'amour, BuxWV 233/1                                        Buxtehude

 

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12:00   Michael Tsalka, clavichord

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Two Kenner Sonatas by Daniel Gottlob Türk

 

 

Sonata III in B Minor, HedT.104.8.3                            Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750 – 1813)

I.                    Allegro con espressione

II.                 Adagio cantabile e sempre piano

III.               Allegro poco vivo

 

Sonata I in A Minor, HedT.104.8.1

       I. Allegro assai e con spirito

      II. Poco Adagio, patetico e sostenuto

      III. Allegro di molto e con fuoco

 

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12:30 – 1:45 PM:  Lunch on your own

 

2:00 PM:  Concert:  Delbert Disselhorst, Brett Wolgast, organ, CRH.  Co-sponsored by River Valley Chapter, American Guild of Organists; open to the public.

 

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PROGRAM

 

Praeludium in e                                                             Nicolaus Bruhns

 

Sonata, K.255                                                                          Domenico Scarlatti

Sonata, K.288

Sonata, K.328

 

Praeludium in d minor, BuxWV 140                                          Dieterich Buxtehude

 

Delbert Disselhorst, organ

 

 

INTERMISSION

 

 

Praeludium in C Major                                                  Georg Böhm

 

Chorale Fantasy on "Nun freut euch,                                       Dieterich Buxtehude

lieben Christen gmein" BuxWV 210

 

Passacaglia, BWV 582                                                 Johann Sebastian Bach

 

Brett Wolgast, organ

 

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3:30 – 7:00 PM:  Exhibits open, view exhibits

(sign up)  Open console for registrants wishing to try the Iowa organs

·        Casavant III/58, 1971, Clapp Recital Hall (until 6 PM only)

·        Taylor & Boody Op. 13, II/16, 1987, Krapf Studio

·        Taylor & Boody continuo organ, Op. 42, I/4, 2002, HH (until 6 PM only)

·        Schlicker II/22, 1971

·        Brombaugh 8/8/8 practice organ

 

7:30 PM:  Closing Concert:  The University of Iowa Chapter, American Guild of Organists:  Abendmusik: Dieterich Buxtehude, Organist in Lübeck, CRH.

 

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PROGRAM

 

Dieterich Buxtehude

Organist in Lübeck

A Commemoration of the Three-Hundredth Anniversary

of the Composer’s Death in 1707

 

Exordium

 

Praeludium in g                                                                                                                          BuxWV 149

 

Please reserve applause until the conclusion of the program.

 

Inspired by the Spirit

 

Commentary: On Religion, Rhetoric, and the Stylus Phantasticus

 

Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist                                                                       Setting: Wittenberg, 1524

 

Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist                                                                                             BuxWV 208

 

Praeludium in g                                                                                                                          BuxWV 148

 

A Master of Styles

 

Commentary: An Erudite Entrepreneur

 

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern                                                              Setting: Philipp Nicolai, 1599

 

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern                                                                                         BuxWV 223

 

Canzonetta in C                                                                                                                          BuxWV 167

 

Te Deum laudamus                                                                                                    Plainchant (Fragment)

 

Te Deum laudamus                                                                                                                    BuxWV 218

 

Ordering of the Heavens and Earth

 

Commentary: The Waxing and Waning Passacaglia

 

Passacaglia in d                                                                                                                           BuxWV 161

 

Nun lob, mein’ Seel’, den Herren                                                                                              BuxWV 215

 

Nun lob, mein’ Seel’, den Herren                                                                                   Setting: Hans Kugelmann, 1540

 

Nun lob, mein’ Seel’, den Herren                                                                                              BuxWV 214

 

Peroratio

 

Commentary: Buxtehude Then and Now

 

Praeludium in C                                                                                                                         BuxWV 137

 

 

Saturday Evening Performers

 

Justin Brueck (BuxWV 208) is a M.A. student in Organ and Church Music at the University of Iowa. He received a B.A. in Biology with a secondary emphasis in Chemistry from Central College in 2006. While there, he studied organ with Mark Babcock and collaborated with Davis Folkerts, professor emeritus of organ. Currently, Justin serves as Principal Organist at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Iowa City and St. Mary's Catholic Church in Riverside, Iowa.

 

David Crean (BuxWV 218) just finished the third semester of his M.A. program in Organ Performance at the University of Iowa where he studies with Delbert Disselhorst. In December of 2006, he received his B.Mus in Organ and B.A. in Politics from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where he studied organ with David Boe, and historical performance with Steven Plank. He is a three-time AGO scholarship winner and former host of the Oberlin Friday Night Organ Pump, one of the most highly attended organ recital series in the world. He currently serves as Organist at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Iowa City.

 

Michael Davidson (BuxWV 148) is a recent graduate organ major having studied with Delbert Disselhorst and Brett Wolgast. He began his studies at the age of five with Janet Mangin in his hometown of Sauk Prairie, Wisconsin. Throughout his course of organ study, Michael has had the privilege of working with several notable organists including Thomas Trotter and Olivier Latry, and is looking forward to finding employment and continued graduate studies.

 

Chad Fothergill (BuxWV 167) holds a baccalaureate degree in Music from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and a M.A. degree in Organ Performance from the University of Iowa where he will begin the Ph.D. program in Musicology in August 2008. He has studied organ with Delbert Disselhorst and David Fienen, and choral conducting with Gregory Aune. He is presently organist at First Presbyterian Church, Iowa City, and also serves on the staffs of Iowa Summer Music Camps and the Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival.

 

Julia Howell (BuxWV 137) is a D.M.A. student in Organ Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Iowa, where she has studied organ with Delbert Disselhorst and choral conducting with Timothy Stalter. She earned the Certificate in Sacred Music from the same university in 2007 and the M.A. in Organ in 2006. Julia graduated from Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania in 2004 with a B.S. in Music Education and a B.A. in Music, having studied organ with Shelly Moorman-Stahlman, piano with Dennis Sweigart and choral conducting with Mark Mecham. She presently serves as Director of Music Ministries at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Iowa City.

 

Han Mi Kang (BuxWV 149) is a doctoral student at the University of Iowa, studying with Delbert Disselhorst. She received her B.A. in Church Music from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea where she studied with Tong-Soon Kwak, and graduated with highest honors. While at the Yonsei University, she won the first prize at the Jang Cheun-Klais Organ competition in 2002. She also earned a M.M. degree in Organ Performance from the University of Texas at Austin where she studied organ with Frank Speller and improvisation with Gerre Hancock. She is the organist at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Coralville.

 

Matthew Palisch (BuxWV 161, BuxWV 215, BuxWV 214) a native of Jackson, Missouri, completed a M.A. degree in Organ Performance at the University of Iowa in May 2008. While there, he was a student of Delbert Disselhorst and served as the Research Assistant for the organ department. Matthew holds baccalaureate degrees in Organ Performance and Music Education from Southeast Missouri State University, and recently accepted the post of Director of Music and Worship at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson, Missouri.

 

Aaron Sunstein (BuxWV 223) is pursuing a B.M. degree in Organ Performance at the University of Iowa, where he receives the Frawley Organ Scholarship as a student of Delbert Disselhorst. In April 2008, he was awarded first prize at the Twin Cities American Guild of Organists regional undergraduate competition, and was a featured performer for the Schubert Club in May at Luther Seminary in St. Paul.

 

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CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES

 

DAVID SCHRADER is equally at home in front of a harpsichord, organ, piano, or fortepiano, David Schrader is "truly an extraordinary musician ... (who) brings not only the unfailing right technical approach to each of these different instruments, but always an imaginative, fascinating musicality to all of them" (Norman Pelligrini, WFMT, Chicago). A performer of wide ranging interests and accomplishments, Mr. Schrader has performed at the American Guild of Organists’ national convention on four occasions performing as a featured artist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Schrader has appeared as a soloist on organ and on harpsichord with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra having performed under the direction of Sir Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, and Pierre Boulez.  In addition, Mr. Schrader has appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as the repetiteur and principal harpsichordist in Chicago Opera Theater’s highly acclaimed production of "Orfeo."  He was the featured performer at the prestigious Irving Gilmore Keyboard Festival, performing concerts on organ, harpsichord and clavichord.  And, Mr. Schrader appeared as a soloist at the Ravinia Festival under the direction of Nicholas McGegan performing all six of the Bach Brandenburg Concertos.  He was the harpsichord soloist with the Nagaokakyo Chamber Ensemble in a tour of Japan under Yuko Mori and the Canadian baroque orchestra Tafelmusik in a European tour,  He has also performed at the Aspen Music Festival, the Michigan Mozartfest with Roger Norrington, the Connecticut Early Music Festival, the Manitou Music Festival, and the Woodstock Mozart Festival where he performed as soloist and conductor.  Schrader's 17th recording for the Chicago-based indie label may be his best yet.  Schrader's other recordings include concerti of J. S. Bach with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and continuo with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for both recordings of Sir Georg Solti's "Creation", and the "St. Matthew Passion" and "Messiah".  Mr. Schrader has many releases of solo repertoire on the Cedille label, including the music of J.S. Bach, Soler, Franck, Vivaldi, Dupre and Domenico Scarlatti. His recording of Soler "Fandango & Sonatas" was described thus "We have never heard more beautiful, natural, realistic harpsichord sound... The playing? Excellent... There is no better recording on CD." (American Record Guide).  Mr. Schrader has also recorded for the Centaur and CRI labels.  He is on the faculty of Roosevelt University, Chicago College of Performing Arts - Music Conservatory for performance and academic studies.   From 1993 through 1995 he also directed the Collegium Musicum at Northwestern University.  Since 1980, he has been the organist of the Church of the Ascension, whose liturgies command a national reputation for musical integrity.  Schrader received a Doctor of Music degree in organ from Indiana University as well as the coveted Performer's Certificate.  He received a Bachelor of Music in piano and a Bachelor of Music in organ from the University of Colorado. His principal teachers have been Storm Bull, Abbey Simon, Oswald Ragatz, Anthony Newman and Everett Jay Hilty. 

 

PIETER-JAN BELDER studied the recorder with Ricardo Kanji at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, and the harpsichord with Bob van Asperen at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatory. He graduated in 1990 and immediately joined the staff of the Sweelinck Conservatory as coach and accompanist to the class of Walter van Hauwe. From 2001 - 2004 he taught harpsichord at the Rotterdam Conservatory. Since 1990 he has had a flourishing career as a harpsichordist, clavichord player, organist, forte-pianist and a recorder player.  He has played at several international festivals, such as the Barcelona ‘Festival de Musica Antiga’, The ‘Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht’, the Berlin ’Tage für Alte Musik’, The Festival van Vlaanderen, Festival Potsdam Sancoussi, the Sacharov Festival in Nizhny Novgorod and the Leipzig ‘Bachfest’ . He regularly plays solo recitals. He is also very much in demand as a continuo player with such ensembles as the Radio Chamber Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent, Il Fondamento, Camarata Trajectina, the Gesualdo Consort and de Nederlandse Bachvereniging. He has worked with conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Ton Koopman, Paul Dombrecht, Philippe Herreweghe, Kenneth Montgomery and René Jacobs. Belder also accompanied soloists such as Johannette Zomer, Nico van der Meel, Harry van der Kamp, Sigiswald Kuijken, Rémy Baudet, Kate Clark and Saskia Coolen. He has made numerous radio and television recordings for the Dutch broadcasting companies, Belgium and German radio. Belder conducts his own ensemble Musica Amphion.  In 1997 Pieter-Jan Belder was awarded the third prize at the Hamburg NDR Music Prize harpsichord competition. In 2000 he was winner of the Leipzig Bach harpsichord competition. In 2005 he made his debut as a conductor in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, conducting Musica Amphion.  He has made many CD-recordings, most of them solo and chamber music productions. In 1999 Belder was invited to cooperate in two important CD recording projects: 10 CDs in a complete Bach recording (Brilliant), and a CD in an Edison awarded complete recording of all the Keyboard works of the Dutch composer Jan Pieterszn. Sweelinck (NM classics) In 2001 he recorded several CD’s in a complete Mozart recording (Brilliant), including the KV 107 harpsichord concertos and a CD with variations for pianoforte. Currently Belder is working on a CD project (36 CD’s), recording all the harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, a project which occupied him until 2007, a memorial year of this great Italian/Spanish composer (1685-1757).  In 2004 a complete recording of Telemann’s ‘Tafelmusik’ was released under his baton, as well as a CD focusing on two centuries of recorder music. The recording of Corelli’s Opera Omnia with Musica Amphion was released in april 2005. In 2006 he recorded Bach’s Brandenburg concertos as well his concertos for 2, 3 & 4 harpsichords with Musica Amphion. Currently Musica Amphion is recording the complete chamber music by Henry Purcell.

 

CRAIG CRAMER is Professor of Organ at the University of Notre Dame, a position he has held since 1981. He holds degrees from Westminster Choir College 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, David Boe, and André Marchal (Paris).  Cramer has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.  Cramer has studied more than two hundred historic organs in Europe.  Frequently invited to perform on some of the most important historic organs in the world, Cramer’s recent European concerts included performances in Germany on the 1727 König in Steinfeld, the 1748 Gottfried Silbermann in Nassau, the 1692 Arp Schnitger in Norden, the 1624/1716 Scherer/ Röder in Tangermünde, and in the Netherlands on the 1725 Hagerbeer/ Schnitger in Alkmaar, the 1643 Bader in Zutphen, the 1727 Müller in Leeuwarden, and the 1696 Schnitger in Noordbroek.  He has appeared as a soloist with the Toledo Symphony, the South Bend Chamber Orchestra, the South Bend Symphony, the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra, and the Eastman Philharmonia. He recently performed the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach in eighteen concerts using a distinguished set of mechanical-action organs in the state of Indiana; in 2007 he performed the complete organ works of Buxtehude in honor of the 300th anniversary of the composer’s death.  Cramer is a frequent guest on the nationally-syndicated program "Pipedreams" (American Public Radio).  He has released twelve CD recordings on Naxos, JAV, Arkay, Dominanat Music, Dulcian, Sonic Windows, and Motette.