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Program in Organ
Mission
The major in organ prepares students for careers as informed church
musicians, soloists, and teachers, and for doctoral-level programs.
The departmental seminar is devoted to a comprehensive survey of
organ literature from the seventeenth century to the present. For
one week each year the department invites a visiting artist/teacher
to be in residence. These have included Daniel Roth, Marie-Claire
Alain, Catharine Crozier, Peter Planyavsky, Martin Haselböck,
Thomas Trotter, Naji Hakim, David Craighead, Olivier Latry, Susan
Landale, Ludger Lohmann, Jon Gillock, Michael Gailit, Karel Paukert,
Thomas Trotter, Hans Ola Ericcson and Jon Laukvik. Typically, they teach a week of individual lessons
and an organ seminar and perform an organ recital. The visiting
artist-in-residence in 2008-09 will be Dame Gillian Weir, and David Yearsley and Yale faculty. will also perform on the annual "Great Organ Music at
Yale" series.
Students have the opportunity for practice and performance on the
extensive collection of fine instruments at the University: the
H. Frank Bozyan Memorial Organ in Dwight Memorial Chapel (Rudolph
von Beckerath, three manuals, 1971); the organ in Battell Chapel
(Walter Holtkamp, Sr., three manuals, 1951); the organ in Marquand
Chapel at the Divinity School (E. M. Skinner, three manuals, 1932);
and the Newberry Memorial Organ in Woolsey Hall (E. M. Skinner,
four manuals, 1928), one of the most famous romantic organs in the
world. The 2007-2008 academic year saw the inauguration of the new Krigbaum Organ (Taylor & Boody, three manuals, meantone temperament, 2007) in Marquand Chapel. The Institute also possesses a Taylor and Boody continuo organ. Two-manual practice
instruments by Flentrop, Holtkamp, Casavant, and others are located
in Woolsey Hall and at the Institute of Sacred Music, which also
houses five Steinway grand pianos, a C. B. Fisk positive, a Dowd
harpsichord, a two-manual Richard Kingston harpsichord, and the
Ortel Organ (Flentrop, 1960).
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