The University of Alabama Third Annual 2012 Organ Scholarship Competition application and recorded round deadline is November 14, 2011. There are no age restrictions.
The required works for the recorded round are: 1) J. S. Bach: A major Bach work (all movements of a multi-movement work); and 2) A work in the Romantic idiom by a composer born between 1800-1904. This may be a single movement only, and it may be a movement from a multi-movement work.
The final round held on Thursday, January 26, 2012 must include the two works listed above plus a contemporary work by a composer born no earlier than 1905. Total playing time of the three pieces shall not exceed thirty minutes.
The winner of the competition will be a featured artist on Friday, January 27, 2012 at the Eighth Annual University of Alabama Church Music Conference. Dr. Joby Bell, Assistant Professor of Music, Appalachian State University, will be an adjudicator as well as the featured artist for the Church Music Conference.
Download the application form and learn further details by visiting the University of Alabama Organ Department website at: music.ua.edu/departments/organ/ or contact Dr. Faythe Freese, Professor of Organ at aythefreese@earthlink.net or 205/348-3329.
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