August 19th, 2007 Organ Recital

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PAUL TEGELS

Paul Tegels, a native of the Netherlands, is Assistant Professor of Music, and serves as University Organist at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, W A. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance and Pedagogy and his Master of Arts Degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Iowa where he studied organ with Delores Bruch and choral conducting with William Hatcher.
Other degrees and awards include the Artist Diploma and the Master of Music Degree in organ performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston where he studied with Yuko Hayashi and William Porter. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship from the Netherlands-America Commission for Educational Exchange.
He holds the teaching and performance degrees from the Stedelijk Conservatorium in Arnhem, The Netherlands, where he studied organ with Bert Matter and harpsichord with Cees Rosenhart. He has done extensive research on the organ and harpsichord concertos of Franz Joseph Haydn, and has played the first American performance of the Haydn Organ Concerto in D, Hoboken XVIII-2, of which he has prepared a performance edition.

DANA ROBINSON

Dana Robinson, a native of Boston, has performed on some of the most significant modem and historic organs in the United States and has presented recitals, master classes and lectures for the Boston and River Valley chapters of the American Guild of Organists, the Round Lake Historical Society, Boston's First Night festival, Methuen Memorial Music Hall, the Old West Organ Society, Baroque Artists of Champaign and the National Convention of the Organ Historical Society. He has also appeared with the Boston Caecelia, Baroque Artists of Champaign and with Dutch organist Paul Tegels with whom he gives frequent duet recitals. His performances are frequently featured on the nationally syndicated radio program "Pipedreams".
An active church musician, Professor Robinson has served as organist and choir master of Trinity Cathedral in Davenport, Iowa and as organist and director of music for the Center of Faith and Life at Luther College. Professor Robinson is presently organist of Grace Lutheran Church in Charnpaign. He has held teaching positions at Central College of Iowa and Luther College.
The recipient of numerous awards and honours, Professor Robinson won the Youth Concerts at Symphony Hall Concerto Competition and First Prize in the Arthur Poister Competition. In 1988 he received the Frank Huntington Beebe Grant for study abroad. His principal teachers include George Faxon, Yuko Hayashi, Harald Vogel, Delbert Disselhorst and pianists Julius Chaloff and Kenneth Amada.

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