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The American Guild of Organists (AGO) is an international organization of academic, church, and concert organists in the US, headquartered in New York City with its administrative offices in the Interchurch Center. Founded as a professional educational association, it was chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New ...
John C. Walker, more familiarly known as John Walker, is an American concert organist, choirmaster, and CD recording artist. He is also a former president of the American Guild of Organists, elected in May 2014 to a two-year term of the 16,000-member organization.
Patty Stair was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the niece of tenor Edwin Stair.She studied with music teachers including Franklin Bassett and at Hathaway Brown school for girls. . She taught organ at the Cleveland Conservatory of Music from about 1889 to 1921 and served as organist for several churches in the Cleveland ar
She initiated the study of Anglo-American organs as a sub-discipline in the 1950s. [1] She founded the Organ Historical Society in 1956 and served as its president. [1] [4] In 1985, she became librarian of the Organ Library of the American Guild of Organists at Boston University. She held numerous other positions for the Guild, serving as dean ...
She has previously received awards including the American Guild of Organists (Houston) Memorial Prize in Organ Performance, the Power Performing Arts Award (1995) and the Palmer Christian Award, and was a finalist at the Jean and Staley Brodus hymn playing competition in Houston.
American Guild of Organists; American Theatre Organ Society; B. British Institute of Organ Studies; Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister; G. Gothenburg Organ Art Center; O.
A fellow of the American Guild of Organists (for which he was also an examiner) and Associate of the Royal College of Organists, [3] Andrews was also a member of St. Wilfrid Club in New York City. [1] As a teacher, his pupils included Carl Weinrich, Clarence Watters, Julius Zingg, Edwin Stanley Seder and Winifred Young Cornish. [2] [3]
1976 "Church Music USA: Three Portraits and a Scheme," lecture for the Guild Service, American Guild of Organists, Seattle Chapter, Feb. 8, 1976. 1975 "Charles Ives and American Romanticism," Women's University Club, Seattle. 1974 "Liturgy's Words and Music: Old Skins for New Wine?" American Guild of Organists, Seattle Chapter, Nov. 11, 1974.