Presenters

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WORKSHOP AND CONTINUING EDUCATION PRESENTERS

Workshops

APOBA
The Doctor Is In: Caring for Your Congregation’s Pipe Organ

Barbara Adler
Financial Planning for the Under-30 Crowd

Ben Spalding
Tried and True: Conductors' Favorites

Benjamin Kolodziej
Online Resources for the Church Organist

Brian Hehn
Hymn Society: The Center for Congregational Song

Brian Scarborough
Jazz and Worship: Pastor and Musicians Create Together

Carson Cooman
Sacred Music Press: New Choral Music

Chad Fothergill
Late Style and Last Things in Brahms' Op. 122 Choral Preludes

Charles Bruffy
Conductor Tips for Your Choir: Say It Like You Mean It
Commissioned Anthems for The Convention [Part 1]
Commissioned Anthems for The Convention [Part 2]

Charles Echols
Organ Music of James Hotchkiss Rogers And connection to WW I, Anthems of Allied Powers

Chelsea Vaught
The Ins and Outs of National Organ Competitions

Christoph Wolff
Bach Seminar, Part I: The Manuscript Sources of Bach's Organ Music

Daniel Aune
AGO National Council The AGO and Your Denomination

David Lamb
Watch Your Chapter Grow and Flourish
Career Support and Professional Values Through Membership in the AGO
January Jubilee: The One-Day Way to Share Skills

David Pickering
The Auditorium Organ The Midwest's American Classic

Don Cook
Back-to-Back Comparisons of Important Organ Sounds

Eileen Guenther
AGO National Council The AGO and Your Denomination

Eileen Hunt
AGO National Council: Strategic Planning for Our Organization
American Guild of Organists: Strategic Planning For Our Organization

Elizabeth Smith
Gems for the Busy Organist

Gabriel Dessauer
The Improvisation of Franz Lehrndorfer

Gabriella Biagi Ravenni
The Discovery of Organ Music by Giacomo Puccini

George Stauffer
BACH SEMINAR Part II: Leupold Edition of the Complete Bach Organ Works The New Discoveries in the First Six Volumes

Gregory Gyllsdorf
You Too Can Pass the AGO Exams Part 2: Preparing for the Colleague Exam
You Too Can Pass the AGO Exams Part 1: Preparing for the Service Playing Certificate

James Thomashower
AGO National Council: Strategic Planning for Our Organization
American Guild of Organists: Strategic Planning For Our Organization

Jan Kraybill
Tried and True: Conductors' Favorites

Jane Anderson
Handbells: No Longer Guess How to Be a Success

Janette Fishell
From Accompanist to Conductor in 90 Minutes Part I
From Accompanist to Conductor in 90 Minutes Part II

Jason Charneski
The Art and Joy of Hosting a Regional Convention

Jason Hudson
Exercise and Health Habits for Musicians

Ji Hyun Woo
A Spiritual Connection between Reger, Parry, and Tournemire's WWI Organ Music

Jillian Gardner
Exercise and Health Habits for Musicians
AGO Youth Panel Discussion: Engaging Musicians and Social Media

John Mack
The Art World Responds: WWI in Note, Pigment, and Stone
Wings and Legends WWI and the Silver Screen

John Wigal
Watch Your Chapter Grow and Flourish

Joseph Butler
The Art and Joy of Hosting a Regional Convention

Joyce Kull
Basic Hymn Reharmonization for Service Use

Kathleen Thomerson
Jean Langlais Playing His Own Works

Leslie Wolf Robb
AGO National Council Climbing the AGO Leadership Ladder

Marilyn Keiser
AGO National Council The AGO and Your Denomination

Mark Steinbach
Ergonomically Healthy Technique

Marlene Hallstrom
Career Support and Professional Values Through Membership in the AGO

Matthew Hoch
Forgotten Passions A Reexamination of Anglican Passion Cantatas
Integrating Vocal Technique Into the Weekly Church Choir Rehearsal

Michael Bauer
Deep Practice: The Key to Mastery

Michael Velting
The Art and Joy of Hosting a Regional Convention

Murray Somerville
George Chadwick: Master of the Organ and the Orchestra

MusicSpoke
Commissioned Anthems for The Convention (Part 1 )
Commissioned Anthems for The Convention (Part 2 )

Namhee Han
Practical Service Music: Hymn Preludes by Healey Willan

Paul Tucker
Unification of Vowels, Volume, and Vibrato In the Voluntary Choir

Peter Bates
January Jubilee: The One-Day Way to Share Skills

Phillip Kloeckner
The Discovery of Organ Music by Giacomo Puccini

Preston Dibble
AGO National Council The AGO and Your Denomination

Quentin Faulkner
Bach Seminar, Part III: Performance Practice Issues

Rev. Tyler Kaufmann
Jazz and Worship: Pastor and Musicians Create Together

Robert Woody
Expressive Performance: What Cognitive Psychology Says
Vernacular Musicianship: A Key Life-Long Engagement?

Ruth Eldredge Thomas
Hubert Parry's Organ Works in context of the Great War and Parry's Study of J. S. Bach

Selah Publishing
Choral Reading Session Selah Publishing

Stephen Hamilton
Church Organ Music Repertoire Published in the Last Year

Susanne Kujala
Max Reger and Other Influences on Finnish Organ Art

Thomas Vozzella
K-12 Music in Worship: A New Paradigm

Tom Trenney
Then Sings My Soul (Organists who train Singers )
May God Give Us Faith to Sing Always
ABRACADABRA: Organ Improvisation

Vance Wolverton
Latvian Sacred Choral Music: Old and New

Vicki Schaeffer
To Inspire and Be Inspired: Mentoring the Next Generation of Organists

Virgilio Bernardoni
The Discovery of Organ Music by Giacomo Puccini

Wayne Leupold
Recent Leupold Publications

Wilma Jensen
Developing Natural Keyboard Technique
Playing Pianist Passages in Organ Repertoire

Zach Klobnak
Organ Works of Rolande Falcinelli, 1920-2006