The American Guild of Organists and the Eastman School of Music present the 16th biennial Conference on Organ Pedagogy, November 10–13 in Rochester, New York.
The conference, designed in cooperation between the AGO Committee on Continuing Professional Education and the 10th annual Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) Festival, will present the topic of organ improvisation through a variety of compositional techniques and styles.
The four-day conference will present masterclasses, panel discussions addressing the teaching of improvisation, and sessions that will provide attendees with resource material in the pedagogy of improvisation.
The keynote address, “Why Is Improvisation So Difficult?,” will be given by Eastman faculty member William Porter. Other presenters include Jeffrey Brillhart, Tony Caramia, Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin, Hans Davidsson, Michael Dodds, Gerre Hancock, David Higgs, Denise Lanning, Rudolf Lutz, William Marvin, Bruce Neswick, David Peckham, McNeil Robinson, Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, John R. Shannon, and Daniel Zager.
For information contact Annie Laver at 585/274-1564, anne.laver@rochester.edu.
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