Timothy Albrecht, Atlanta's Emory University Organist, is hailed in a recent New York American Organist review as "demonstrating creative, fertile imagination," receiving praise for his "energized, electric performances...Lisztian virtuosity.” At Emory University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Candler School of Theology, Timothy Albrecht heads the graduate organ degree (MM and MSM) programs.
Ambidextrous and possessing perfect pitch, Timothy Albrecht spent childhood in Los Angeles and Wisconsin, studying piano with East-European Eugenia Prekosh. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa while a student at both Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory, he studied organ with Haskell Thomson. At the Eastman School of Music, under the tutelage of David Craighead, he won the Performer’s Certificate and earned his doctorate. Shortly after graduation, he represented the United States at the Sixth International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig. Cambridge University in England, where he has spent a sabbatical as Visiting Associate at Clare Hall, has conferred on him Life Membership.
Organ recitals span Alaska to the Andes, Chicago to China. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung cites Timothy Albrecht’s “ever-present artistry and virtuosity.” Nobel Peace Prize Winner Desmond Tutu wrote him about an upcoming performance, “I am so looking forward to that… knowing you will play as if your life depended on it!” He has performed organ music of Olivier Messiaen before the Dalai Lama. “Unforgettable, because inimitable," writes the Darmstädter Beiträge zur neuen Musik. The New York American Organist states he “plays with a facility and fluency that we all strive for...a sheer pleasure…a delightful musician.”
Recital venues this season include Vienna, Innsbruck, Atlanta, Young Harris College, Iowa State University and Concordia University Chicago.
Timothy Albrecht has taught master classes at the Juilliard School and for many chapters of the American Guild of Organists. His twelve volumes of published organ compositions, Grace Notes, are available from Fortress Press www.augsburgfortress.org/store. Timothy Albrecht has recorded seven solo compact discs, including Timothy Albrecht Performs Organ Music of J.S. Bach. He performs exclusively under the Koch Templeton Concert Management (for bookings: libmet@emory.edu)
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