Kent Tritle appointment

Kent Tritle has been appointed chair of the organ department at the Manhattan School of Music (MSM), New York City. Tritle, who also serves as MSM’s director of choral activities, is organist for the New York Philharmonic (since 1994) and American Symphony Orchestra (since 1993), and serves as director of music and organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. He is also music director of both Musica Sacra, the longest continuously performing professional chorus in New York, and the Oratorio Society of New York.

The MSM program offers a range of degrees including Master of Music, Professional Studies, and Doctor of Musical Arts. Formerly, the organ department was chaired by McNeil Robinson, who died last May. A tribute to Robinson can be found in the July 2015 issue of The Diapason, page 10.