Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast

Today’s guest is Lynne Davis, an American concert organist, pedagogue, and recording artist. She is world-renown for her expertise in French music, culture, and style. Having been educated by the finest American and French organ masters, her career was launched by taking First Prize at the 1975 St. Albans International Organ Competition in England – the eighth organist to receive that honor since the competition’s founding in 1962. Now a leading international concert artist and master teacher at the Wichita State University School of Music in Kansas, she has performed in nearly every cathedral in France, numerous major cities throughout Europe, and from coast to coast in the United States. Her activities have included being a featured performer and lecturer at two national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, a member of Chartres, Dallas, St. Albans, Tariverdiev, and Montréal international organ competition juries, and giving master classes and lectures about French organ literature and its history. In addition to heading the organ program at Wichita State University, she is producer and artistic director of the Rie Bloomfield Organ Series, “Distinguished Guest Artists”, and the “Wednesdays in Wiedemann” series she created in 2007 (for which she performs monthly half-hour organ recitals) which are videotaped for YouTube. In this conversation, Lynne Davis shares her insights about continuing the French organ tradition in the 21st century. ​Enjoy and share your comments below. ​ And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends. Thanks for caring. Related links: htpp://www.lynnedavis.net ​http://www.wichita.edu ​http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=fineartsboxoffice&p=/riebloomfieldorganseries/ ​http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=fa_organ&p=/index/