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Founded in 1967 by Phillip Truckenbrod, this concert artist agency represents and manages the concert careers of some of the most highly-respected master pipe organ artists, the most captivating of today’s vibrant young organists, and the first-prize winner of the Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition.
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BRYAN ANDERSON has been named the First Prize Winner of the 2023 Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition! He received the $40,000 Pierre S. du Pont First Prize, a three-year career development and concert management contract with this agency, and a 2023 – 2024 season performance at Longwood Gardens. Anderson, who hails from Houston, Texas, also won the AGO Philadelphia Chapter Prize of $1,000, which recognizes the outstanding performance of the judges’ choice piece. He is director of music at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church and School in Houston, and a member of The Diapason magazine’s 20 Under 30 Class of 2017. He received his master’s degree in organ performance from Rice University and holds a bachelor’s degree and Artist Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music. Bryan is featured in an Artist Spotlight on The Diapason magazine’s website, and a video of one of his performances is also available.
Dr. BALINT KAROSI will join the faculty of the organ department at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance for a one-year appointment as visiting Lecturer in the Department of Organ beginning in the Fall of 2023. Dr. Karosi is Cantor at Saint Peter’s Church in New York City, an active recitalist, and an award-winning composer. He is well known as a leading interpreter of the music of J.S. Bach and is one of few organists in North America to improvise regularly in recitals in authentic Baroque Style informed by his research in Baroque improvisation techniques of the 17th and 18th centuries. At U of M, Professor Karosi will teach Organ Music of the 20th Century to Present, Contemporary Issues in Sacred Music, Organ Improvisation I, and Organ Music 19th Century, in addition to concertizing throughout the U.S. and Europe.
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