Ahreum Han to First Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth

Ahreum Han is appointed director of music and organist at First Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth, Texas. Han will oversee the broad music program, working closely with music associates Becca Sawyer and Laura Collins. First Presbyterian Church has five singing choirs, two handbell choirs, and two instrumental ensembles for adults, youth, and children. Han will play the 1995 Dan Garland organ of five manuals, 133 ranks between chancel and gallery divisions. She will reestablish the church’s Penn Street Arts concert series.

Prior coming to Fort Worth, she served on the organ faculty at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, and was college organist at Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa. She has served as principal organist and artist-in-residence at First Presbyterian Church, Davenport, Iowa; principal organist at First Presbyterian Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania; organist at Marquand Chapel of Yale Divinity School; organist for the Berkeley Divinity School of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; and organist for St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Stamford, Connecticut. Recently, she released a new CD on the Raven label, Orpheus in the Underworld, featuring the 1980/1998 Casavant organ in First Presbyterian Church, Davenport, Iowa. Upcoming recitals include the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and the Riverside Church in New York City.

For information: www.ahreumhan.com.