University Of Hartford Hartt School
Organ Studies
Since its founding, Hartt had an organ program of study. In 1970, the school acquired a new Gress-Miles pipe organ; it was inaugurated with a performance of Bach's Wir glauben all' an einen Gott. The organ program's director, John Holtz, subsequently launched the International Contemporary Organ Music Festival which ran from 1971 to 1984, and brought world-wide attraction to Hartt with new organ music commissions and performances from major composers and organists, including Marilyn Mason, William Albright, Iannis Xenakis, and William Bolcom. In 1982, the festival expanded to include harpsichord music. In 2015, facing total declinement of enrollment, the school closed down its organ studies program and sold the Gress-Miles organ to United Methodist Church in Babylon, New York. As of 2022, faculty member Scott Lamlein re-started a Foundations of Organ Performance course available to Hartt piano students, taught on a 1986 Wolff studio pipe organ.
Notable faculty
The Hartt School's faculty perform, teach, and present all over the country and around the world. Notable faculty members have included:
- Glen Adsit, conductor & founder of the National Wind Ensemble Consortium Group
- Robert Black, Bang on a Can All-Stars
- Robert Carl, composer
- John Feierabend, music education researcher and author
- Kevin Cobb, American Brass Quintet
- Steve Davis, jazz trombonist
- Javon Jackson, jazz saxophonist
- Nat Reeves, jazz double bassist
- Julia Smith, pianist and composer
- Leonid Sigal, violinist
- Oxana Yablonskaya, pianist
- Jackie McLean, (former) jazz saxophonist and founder of the Jackie McLean Jazz program
- Rene McLean, jazz saxophonist and flutist
- Gwyneth van Anden Walker, composer
Notable alumni
- John Barcellona, flutist
- Peter Boyer, composer
- David Dodge Boyden, musicologist
- Robert Brubaker, tenor
- Larry Chesky, composer and Polka accordionist
- Javier Colon, musician, winner of The Voice
- David Cullen, guitarist
- Jimmy Greene, jazz alto saxophonist
- Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone opera singer
- Laurel Hurley, soprano
- Marin Ireland, film, stage and television actress
- Barbara Kolb, composer
- Mia Love, U.S. Representative from Utah
- Rob Moose, musician
- Houston Person, jazz saxophonist
- Carmino Ravosa, composer
- Francesca Roberto, soprano
- Teresa Stich-Randall, soprano
- Joe Souza, actor
- Gwyneth van Anden Walker, composer
- Dionne Warwick, pop singer and multiple Grammy winner
- Doreen Ketchens, trad jazz clarinetist and New Orleans music ambassador
- Tony MacAlpine, Grammy-nominated guitarist and pianist
- Keir O'Donnell, actor
- Charles Nelson Reilly, actor, teacher
- Lynne Strow Piccolo, soprano
References
- ^ "The Hartt School". Hartford.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ^ "Hartt's Organ Program: A Postlude". Connecticut Public. 2015-05-07. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
- ^ "John Cromwell Holtz Obituary (2001) Hartford Courant". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
- ^ The Tenth Anniversary of the International Contemporary Organ Music Festival (PDF). Hartt School of Music / University of Hartford. 1980.
- ^ Palmer, Larry (August 1982). "Harpsichord News" (PDF). The Diapason. 73 (873): 3.
- ^ "Hartt School Winds Down Organ Program, Sells Pipe Organ". Connecticut Public. 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
- ^ "New Hartt Course for Pianists to Learn the Pipes Organ". www.hartford.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
- ^ "The Hartt School". Harttweb.hartford.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ^ Gehrke, Robert; Canham, Matt (October 8, 2012). "Mia Love: From Dream of Broadway to Capitol Hill". The Salt Lake Tribune. Archived from the original on November 4, 2014.
- ^ "Complete List Of Grammy Nominees". CBS News. 2002-01-04. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
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