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PAST AWARDS

Organ Playing Competitions - First-Prize Winners

  • 1973 - Rick Ross, Southern Methodist University

  • 1975 - Bruce Bengtson, Southern Methodist University

  • 1976 - Joseph Schenk, University of Nebraska

  • 1977 - Dennis Bergen, Wichita State University

  • 1978 - No first prize awarded

  • 1979 - Wesley Parrott, University of the South

  • 1982 - Edward Murray, Southern Methodist University

  • 1984 - Frederick Hohman, Eastman School of Music

  • 1986 - James Walker, University of Southern California

  • 1991 - Alan Morrison, Curtis Institute of Music

  • 1996 - No first prize awarded

  • 2010 - David Baskeyfield, Eastman School of Music

  • 2013 - Adam Pajan, University of Oklahoma

 

Composition Competition Awards

  • 1980 - Gordon Schuster, "Sonata for Organ"

  • 1994 - Craig Phillips, "Fantasy: Torah Song" (award partially funded by grants from District of Columbia AGO Foundation and San Francisco Chapter, AGO, Special Projects Fund)

  • 2022 - Aaron Travers, "Midnight Toccatas"

Research Grant Recipients​

Research Grant Recipients
Year
Recipient
Research Description
1999
Burton Tidwell
A study of the Works of Lawrence Phelps (Book published in 2015: Lawrence Phelps: Organ Builder)
1999
Nancy Kay Barnard
John Milton and the Organ
2000
Barbara Owen
Research in Halifax on two early American church musicians, William and John Selby
2000
Brenda Leech
Training and pedagogical practices of concert organists in Russia
2000
Michael Friesen
Study of painters, sculptors and engravers who were organists or organ builder in pre-Civil War America
2000
Agnes Armstrong
Alexandre Guilmant, his tours in America, and his influence on the American organ profession
2001
Ronald Ebrecht
In support of research contributing to book Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986: The Last Impressionist (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)
2002
Laura A. Carasco
Study of life and works of Miguel Bernal Jiménez
2003
Stephen Warner
Documentation of the E.M. Skinner Organ of Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church, Detroit
2003
Ronald Ebrecht
Research for book on Cavaillé-Coll’s plans for an organ for Saint Peter’s, Rome (Book published in 2011: Cavaillé-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's, Rome)
2004
Stephen Schnurr
Moller Opus List (with Scott Huntington)
2004
Jane Hettrick
Critical edition of selected sacred motets with concerted organ parts by Franz Schneider
2004
Sabin Levi
Organs and Organists in Israel
2005
Jonathan B. Hall
Research on life and work of Calvin Hampton; later published Calvin Hampton: A Musician without Borders (Wayne Leupold, 2008)
2005
Scott M. Hyslop
Research on Paul Manz; later published The Journey Was Chosen: The Life and Work of Paul Manz (Morningstar Publishers, 2007)
2006
Randall D. Engle
In support of research on Dutch Calvinist church music, later published in the chapter “A Devil’s Siren or Angel’s Throat? The Pipe Organ Controversy among the Calvinists,” In John Calvin, Myth and Reality: Images and Impact of Geneva’s Reformer (Cascade Books, 2011)
2006
Carolyn Shuster-Fournier
In support of research on French organists and organ builders; research later published in “Pierre Cogen: Organiste-compisteur dans la tradition de Sainte-Clotilde” in L’orgue: Bulletin des Amis de l’Orgue (2007)
2006
Tina Fruhauf
In support of research later published in The Organ and its Music in German-Jewish Culture (Oxford University Press, 2009)
2018
Jane Schatwin Herrick
A Newly Discovered Organist Contract from 1824 in the Vienna Lutheran Church
2018
Christopher Holman
Recording of Swiss Renaissance Organ Music
2018
Alexander Meszler
In support of research on the organ and secularized churches in the Rust Belt region
2018
Damin Spritzer
In support of recordings of English romantic music at Hereford Cathedral, later released as "Rhapsodies & Elegies: English Romantic Organ Music" (Raven OAR-156, 2018)
2019
Stephanie Barth
In support of Mildred Andrews Boggs: Oklahoma’s First Lady of the Organ (Leupold Editions, 2022)
2019
Russell Weissman
Book project on Rudolf von Beckerath
2019
Steven Young
Research on organist/composer Marthe Bracquemond
2022
Anne Laver
Database project on the organ concerts of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, published on annelaver.com
2023
Damin Spritzer
In support of a recording project focusing on previously unrecorded women composers on the Fisk organ at the University of Oklahoma
2023
Emma Whitten
In support of research on women organists in Latin America, including research published in "Women Organists in Latin American, The American Organist (January 2024)
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