This graduate program gives skilled performers in-depth knowledge of organ design, history, literature, and performance practices.
The programs of study for organ majors are designed to develop skilled performers with a knowledge of organ design, history, literature, and performance practices.
Under the direction of Organ Department Chair, Andrew Henderson, the Director of Music and Organist at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, students will achieve a high degree of professional competence and learn appropriate stylistic approaches to the literature of various historical periods.
SLIDESHOW: MSM students playing the organ at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
Procedures By Degree Level
Organ Department Handbook
Plan of Study: Organ MSM Academic Catalog
Gail Archer (DMA ’95), Choir Director, Barnard College, Columbia University, Vassar College
Justin Bischof (BM ’90, MM ’92, DMA ’98), Founder/Artistic Director, Modus Operandi Orchestra, Opera of New York City; Music Director, Christ Church (Pelham, NY), Zurich Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s; Radio Show Producer (Former), The Metropolitan Opera
Claudia Dumschat (BM ’85, MM ’87, DMA ’95), Organist and Choirmaster, Church of the Transfiguration; Artistic Director and Conductor, Arnold Schwartz Memorial Concert Series; Music director, The Dalton Chorale
David Higgs (BM ’81, MM ’85), Organ faculty, Eastman School of Music
Aaron David Miller (MM ’97, DMA ’99), featured performer, American Guild of Organists (AGO); Zurich Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Kaufmann Center for the Arts (Kansas City), Disney Hall (Los Angeles), Spreckel’s Organ (San Diego)
Timothy E. Smith (DMA ’92), Music Director and Organist, The Riverside Church (New York City); Music staff, Trinity Church at Wall Street (New York City)
Maxine R. Thevenot (MM ’01, DMA ’06), Organist/Conductor/Composer, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio
F. Anthony Thurman (DMA ’99), Chief Development Officer, American Guild of Organists
Carol Williams (DMA ’01), Former: Artistic Director, Spreckels Organ Society (San Diego); Artist-in-Residence, St. Paul’s Cathedral (San Diego); Associate Organist, Cathedral of the Incarnation (Garden City, Long Island)
“I sometimes look at the list of the faculty members at Manhattan School of Music and it is like a dream come true for me to be mentored by them.” Narek Arutyunyan (MM '18)
“I sometimes look at the list of the faculty members at Manhattan School of Music and it is like a dream come true for me to be mentored by them.”
Narek Arutyunyan
(MM '18)
Kent Tritle, Director of Cathedral Music and Organist of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine is a faculty member of MSM's Organ Program
Total Curriculum Hours: 62
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