JAMES DAVID CHRISTIE has been internationally acclaimed as one of the finest organists of his generation. He has performed around the world with symphony orchestras and period instrument ensembles as well as in solo recitals. He was the 1979 First Prize winner of the Bruges (Belgium) International Organ Competition; he was the first American ever to win First Prize in this prestigious competition and the first person in the competition’s eighteen year history to win both the First Prize and the Prize of the Audience. James David Christie has served as organist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1978 and has performed and recorded with major symphony orchestras in Vienna, London, Stuttgart, Koblentz, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Baltimore, New York, Boston, etc. He has given over fifty tours of Europe and has performed often in Canada, Asia, Australia and Iceland. He is Music Director of Ensemble Abendmusik, a Boston-based period instrument orchestra and chorus specializing in sacred music of the 17th and 18th centuries. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the New England School of Law for his outstanding contributions to the musical life of Boston and was recently awarded the New England Conservatory Outstanding Alumni Award. He has served on international organ competition juries in Paris, St. Omer-Wasquehal, Chartres, Biarritz, Amsterdam, Lübeck, Bordeaux, Dublin, Worcester, Calgary, Columbus, Dallas, Leipzig, Speyer, Erfurt, Tokyo, Kaliningrad, Lausanne, Boston and Bruges. His students have been prizewinners in North America, Europe, Japan and South Africa. James David Christie has recorded for Decca, Philips, Nonesuch, JAV, Northeastern, Arabesque, Denon, RCA, Dorian, Naxos, Bridge Records and GM Records and has received several awards for his solo recordings, including the Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik and the Magazine d’Orgue: Coup de Coeur. James David Christie holds positions as the Distinguished Artist in Residence at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, and Professor of Organ at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, OH. He also serves as an adjunct member of the Wellesley College music faculty. His has previously held positions at Boston Conservatory, M.I.T. and Boston University.
