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The Ann Arbor Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
ANN ARBOR PIPINGSJune 2014 annarborago.org
A Letter from the Dean Greetings and welcome to the Ann Arbor Chapter of the American Guild of Organists POEA Advanced, June 30 - July 04!
This week of lessons, recitals and workshops should prove to be quite a time of learning, fun and music making for all. It is so important that we encourage our young organists as they are the future of our profession, and a POEA shows us that we all must support and encourage each other as Organists--Musicians who bring the depth and beauty of the pipe organ to life, thus bringing life to all who hear it.
The Board and members of the Ann Arbor AGO are proud and happy to sponsor, plan and be a part of this POEA, and bid all good wishes to our talented participants.
Peace and all good thingsTimothy Huth
A SPECIAL EDITION!
POEA 2014Ann Arbor
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Article Three: THE TIME IS NEAR!
Ah, June! We can finally count on the arrival of birdsong, colorful flowers, warmer weather, and … first-rate high school organ students!
Our AGO Ann Arbor Pipe Organ Encounters Advanced begins June 29 and runs through July 4. Please attend as many events as is possible, introduce yourselves to our bright, rising stars, and give them your support and encouragement. After all, they are the future of our beloved profession!
The public events are listed on the following page. Invite a friend, and enjoy the sonic celebrations! Note that on Monday, June 30, we need your voices in the hymn festival. As extra enticement (and hospitality to our young guests), the AGO is hosting an ice cream reception following the festival.
See you there!Dr. Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra Co-Director, POEA 2014
POEA Ann Arbor June 29–July 4, 2014
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Sunday, 29 June7:30 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Fireworks!James Kibbie, Gale Kramer, & Timothy Huth
(Hill Auditorium)
Monday, 30 June3:30–5:00 p.m.
U of M Student Recital: Joshua Boyd, Kipp Cortez, Matthew Dempsey, Mary Zelinski (First United Methodist Church)
7:00 p.m.Improvisation HymnFEST
Michael Burkhardt, Naki Kripfgans-Sung, Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra (FCC)
8:15 AGO Reception
Tuesday, 1 July7:30 p.m.
Faculty Recital:Joseph Balistrieri, Huw Lewis (Hill)
Thursday, 3 July7:00 p.m.
Compline Prelude: Jonathan Moyer Compline Service led by Deborah Friauff +
(St. Francis)
Friday, 4 July11–1:00 p.m.
Student RecitalExpect Sonic Fireworks!(Bethlehem UCC)
POEA PUBLIC EVENTS
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From a Former Dean
Greetings, A2AGOers.
How wonderful to witness the many excellent activities of our beloved chapter during the last couple years! As you should all know by now, the A2AGO, along with the University of Michigan Organ Department, is hosting another Pipe Organ Encounter during the week of June 29 - July 4. This POE will be an Advanced version, with talented young organists participating from the local area as well as beyond the state borders. Eastern Michigan University and various local churches have also opened their facilities to the students. Judging from the outstanding experience we had with the 2011 POE in Ann Arbor, this promises to be a wonderful event.
Let me encourage all the AAAGO members to consider helping in any way they can.
Along with monetary donations, assistance is needed in chaperoning and transportation. Working with these motivated and serious students is always very rewarding. What better way to ensure the future of the pipe organ than to expose budding musicians to the glories of the instrument?! Contact any of the 2014 Ann Arbor POE-A Steering Committee members mentioned in this issue of Pipings for ways to help.
Best wishes for the Spring/Summer, 2014.
Your Former Dean
James Wagner, A.Mus.D.
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Opportunities to Volunteer at the POEA!
All of our chapter members will enjoy the opening concert of the POEA at Hill Auditorium Sunday evening, which will be followed by a festive ice cream social hosted by our Chapter in the Bell Tower rooms of Burton Tower. This is your chance to meet the POEA students and teachers. If you know you will be there and would help with the cleanup after the ice cream event please let Gale Kramer know.
The POEA students will have organ lessons and practice time in 6 Ann Arbor churches and 3 Eastern Michigan University locations on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings between 9 and 12:30. We must have an adult other than the teachers in these locations while the students practice. Please call or email Gale to be a chaperone for a day at the locations listed below.
GALE KRAMER: 734-769-1466 < [email protected]>
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Singers Needed for POEA Evensong!The service will take place on Thursday, July 3 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Francis in Ann Arbor.
Please contact Deborah Friauff at [email protected] for more information and to sign up!
A2AGO Board 2014-2015This slate for 2014-2015 was approved by the board at the meeting June 7.
DEAN – Timothy L Huth (continuing)
CO-SUB DEANS – Sipkje Pesnichak (continuing) & Colin Knapp TREASURER – David Hunsche (continuing)SECRETARY – Carole Fedewa (continuing)
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE2017: Jeffery Mausolf, Meghan Meloy, Cornelia Landes, Michael Burkhardt
2016: Cary Dumas, Robert Badertscher, Joshua Boyd, Mary Zelinski2015: Michele Johns, Kipp Cortez, Colin Knapp, Gale Kramer
Honorary: Marilyn Mason
RENEW YOUR AGO MEMBERSHIP!The AGO’s new Online National Collection and Remittal of Dues (ONCARD) system
allows members to pay their dues either by check or online using a credit card. Members can
also update their personal information, search for Guild members, and make contributions.
Visit www.agohq.org/oncard for more information.
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UM Organ Department Faculty Appointments
I'm delighted to share with you that pending approval by the Regents, the following faculty will be joining the Organ Department in the fall:
Dr. Olukola Owolabi, Associate Professor of Organ: Dr. Owolabi is currently Associate Professor and University Organist at Syracuse University. He brings us an ideal combination of strengths in studio teaching, church music, improvisation, organ literature, a vision for our curricula, a collaborative, inter-disciplinary approach, and an emerging national and international career as a performer.
Dr. Joseph Gascho, Assistant Professor of Harpsichord: Dr. Gascho is currently on the faculty of George Washington University and Oberlin's Baroque Performance Institute. He is widely recognized as a solo performer, recording artist, collaborative musician, and conductor. In addition to harpsichord studio teaching, he will direct our Early Music Ensemble program, teach courses in continuo and keyboard literature, and develop exciting new historic performance opportunities for faculty and students.
In the near future, we also hope to be able to announce the appointment of a permanent Visiting Artist in Organ, who will join us for a brief period each term to work with all students.
If you would like to send Dr. Owolabi and Dr. Gascho a personal word of welcome, their email addresses are:Olukola P Owolabi <[email protected]>Joseph Gascho <[email protected]>
James Kibbie
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Summer Bells at Michigan
Mondays at 7pm. The University of Michigan
Burton Memorial Tower
Bring lawn chairs and enjoy a recital performed on the
historic 53-bell Charles Baird Memorial Carillon.
Tours of the instrument will follow each performance.
Questions? Please email Kipp Cortez at [email protected] or call 734.764.4414
John Widmann
Frederick, Maryland
28 July
Rachel Perfecto
Yale University
04 August
Dennis Curry
Kirk in the Hills Church
21 July
Dave Hunsberger
University of California
17 July*
Julianne Vanden Wyngaard
Grand Valley State University
23 June
Kipp Cortez
The University of Michigan
30 June
Patrick Macoska
St. Mary's of Redford
07 July
Listen up!
Presents
*Mr. Hunsberger's
performance will be
presented at 12pm in
conjunction with the Ann
Arbor Art Fair.
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Dr. Gerald Custer, an Ann-Arbor based choral conductor, composer, author, and clinician, will be the guest composer at this year’s Composer Festival at the First United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Michigan. For more than 30 years, Birmingham’s First Methodist Church has been inviting composers to lead a choir of church musicians from around the metropolitan Detroit area for a Saturday of rehearsing, followed by an evening concert. This year’s festival will take place on Saturday, November 8, 2014.
The repertoire for the event will feature a selection of Dr. Custer’s sacred choral works, and is open to amateur singers from smaller churches who enjoy the opportunity to sing with a large group, as well as directors from the area looking for new repertoire for their choirs.
Dr. Custer is Music Director at the First Presbyterian Church in Farmington Hills, teaches music theory, composition, aural skills, and graduate choral literature at Wayne State University in Detroit, and is the conductor of the Seaway Chorale & Orchestra. An award-winning, Grammy-nominated composer, he has more than 95 works in print for choir, organ, handbells, and wind ensemble, and is published by GIA, Pavane, MorningStar, and Colla Voce.
Our greatest songs are yet unsung -- Pete Seeger
Dr. Jerry CusterFaculty, Theory & Composition, Wayne State UniversityDirector of Music, First Presbyterian Church of Farmington
New Book: "From Words to Music" (pre-order here)Co-author, "The Composer's Craft" (order here)Website: www.geraldcuster.com
Dr. Gerald Custer named guest composer for Composer Festival
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How to get in:For submissions to the newsletter, please send articles in publishable form (Microsoft Word or Pages documents preferred) to [email protected]. Classified ads, calendar events, and other announcements will also be featured on the chapter website. Submissions are subject to editing. Summer editions will be abbreviated or curtailed.
Deadline for submissions for the next issue is: Sunday, July 6th.
Substitute List
Need a sub? Please see our website for an updated list: www.annarborago.org
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Marilyn Mason Young Musician’s Scholarship THE AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS
ANN ARBOR CHAPTER The Ann Arbor Chapter of the American Guild of Organists established a scholarship fund in 2008 in honor of Professor Marilyn Mason in recognition of her 60 years on the faculty of the University of Michigan. Each year a scholarship of $400 is made available to a young person between the ages of 13 and 18 toward the cost of attending a Pipe Organ Encounter (POE) sponsored by the American Guild of Organists in our region. Held in the summer months, a POE is an introduction for young persons who have had little or no previous experience with the pipe organ. The event includes lessons with renowned teachers, recitals by faculty and participants, workshops and visits to area pipe organs and organ builders. The scholarship is paid directly to the sponsoring AGO chapter. This year the scholarship will be awarded to an attendee of the Pipe Organ Encounter (Advanced) to be held in Ann Arbor June 20 – July 4, 2014. An application for the Marilyn Mason Young Musician’s Scholarship is not an application to attend the POEA and does not guarantee acceptance into it. For information about this summer’s POEA, consult the website of the American Guild of Organists: http://www.agohq.org/education/indexpoe.html or the Ann Arbor Chapter of the American Guild of Organists: www.AnnArborAGO.org. Applicants for the Marilyn Mason Young Musician’s Scholarship may download the Award Guidelines and Application for 2014 at the website of the Ann Arbor Chapter of the AGO: www.AnnArborAGO.org. For more information about the Marilyn Mason Young Musician’s Scholarship contact Gale Kramer by telephone 734.769.1466 or by email [email protected].
Marilyn Mason Young Person’s Scholarship Winners 2008 - Reuben Seward 2009 – Emily Seward 2010 - Sarah Simko
2011 - Quinn Reichard 2012, 2013 – no award
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JOBS
St. Joseph Parish in WatervlietSt. Joseph Parish in Watervliet is looking for a part-time Music Director/Organist. The preferred candidate must be familiar with the Catholic Mass. Must be available to play for Saturday Vigil Mass and 2 Masses on Sunday mornings, play music for funerals, special Holy Days, and practice with the adult and small, youth choir. If interested, please contact the parish office at(269) 463-5470 or [email protected]. Start date is June 1, 2014.
Organist at Immanuel Lutheran Church (ELCA), Jackson, MI- service player for a moderately-sized, vibrant ELCA Lutheran Church (45mins west of Ann Arbor; 40mins south of East Lansing)- one service per Sunday (10:00a), one choir rehearsal per Wednesday (7:00p) (subject to change), plus Christmas Eve, Holy Week, and mid-week Lenten services (only during the season of Lent). - 6 services annually are covered by the assistant organist as paid leave.- accompany choir anthem(s) each Sunday. Difficulty level: easy to moderate- congregation and pastor appreciates a mixture of organ and piano, but proficiency on both is expected and organ is the primary instrument for the Sunday service.- 2 manual Wicks organ: original in 1956 (gallery), expanded in 2002 (chancel). Well-maintained and appropriately balanced for the space. - very kind and appreciative congregation. They enjoy good music at the service and make you feel as an integral part of their community. - the service is very musically involved. Prelude, offertory, postlude should be provided by the organist every Sunday. The ELCA service is typically formatted with 3 main hymns, 3 communion hymns, service music (changes seasonally, but expect 3-4 mass pieces or additional hymns). Improvisation is not required, though helpful during transitional times in the service.- annual salary of $11,700.00. You are paid extra for weddings, funerals, and other special services. - position available in August 2014. Interviews and Auditions will be held starting in late April,
2014 and will continue until position is filled. Please contact if interested.
Inquiries to Brian Locke ([email protected]) or Pastor David Eidson ([email protected]). Thank you!
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Organist-Choir Director needed at First Congregational Battle Creek. The part time position will involve approximately 12 hours/week for planning, rehearsal, and leading worship for a 10 a.m. service with a salary range of $12,000 to $15,000. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be part of a collaborative worship-planning team; play organ and direct the choir in collaboration with a music staff colleague who is a pianist-choir director; direct the bell choir; be part of a church which enjoys a three-manual Martin Ott sanctuary organ (2000) and a two-manual Dobson chapel organ (1989); participate in a progressive open and affirming Christian community that embraces diversity in relationships and theology. Interested candidates should submit a resume and references to: Organist-Choir Director Search, First Congregational Church, 145 Capital Ave NW, Battle Creek 49017. Additional information (e.g. detailed duties, responsibilities, qualifications, church history) can be obtained by contacting Pastor Tom Ott at 269 965-1225. Announcement received on June 2, 2014.
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Choir Director & Organist Position St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Kalamazoo, MI is seeking a highly skilled, exciting & team oriented Choir Director/Organist.
• serve on a liturgical team with the priest and other leaders.
• accompany choir rehearsals, the Sunday 9:30 Holy Eucharist,
special liturgies such as those at Christmas, Holy Week and Easter,
as well as weddings and funerals as requested and available.
• recruit, select music for, and direct occasional guest musicians
(brass, drums, strings, etc.).
• demonstrate the ability to interpret and integrate a variety of
musical genres, from classical to contemporary.
• select Anglican music and a variety of other styles for preludes,
postludes, and choir performance.
• coordinate with the priest in the selection of hymns and liturgical
music for the congregation to sing.
• train, motivate and excite this choir which has members whose
musical skills range from the minimal to the advanced.
• understand that a significant experience of prayer in community is
of more value than technical musical perfection.
• demonstrate creativity, flexibility, and effective communication with
the priest, choir, staff, vestry, church school program and
congregation.
• arrange for organ and piano maintenance with a qualified organ and
piano repair person as needed.
• have master's level training, or equivalent, with studies in such areas
as organ, choral accompaniment, hymnody, vocal dynamics, choral
techniques, and conducting.
• Negotiable 18 to 20 hrs. per week, year round employment.
The St. Luke's Choir Director/Organist will . . .The Rev Dr. Randall R. Warren
269-345-8552
St. Luke's is blessed to have a Dobson
Opus 57 pipe organ with 29 stops and
43 ranks which was built in 1992. The
instrument features mechanical key
action and electric stop action with a
detached and reversed console. There
are 2 manuals (58 notes) and pedal (32
notes) along with an 8 level SSL memory.
More at: www.dobsonorgan.com/html/
instruments/op57_kalamazoo.html
Our Commitment to Our Children
The Episcopal Church is a leader in child
abuse prevention. Under our program
Safeguarding God's Children, our new
Organist must pass a criminal records
check and sex offenders registry check.
Our new Organist will also be required
to take the Safeguarding God's Children
training and comply with its policies.
This position begins August 4, 2014.
To apply, send résumé, cover letter
and 3 references to the
Musician Search Committee
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
247 W. Lovell Street
Kalamazoo, MI 49007