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PAST AWARDS

Organ Playing Competitions - First-Prize Winners

  • 1973 - Rick Ross, Southern Methodist University

  • 1975 - Bruce Bengtson, Southern Methodist University

  • 1976 - Joseph Schenk, University of Nebraska

  • 1977 - Dennis Bergen, Wichita State University

  • 1978 - No first prize awarded

  • 1979 - Wesley Parrott, University of the South

  • 1982 - Edward Murray, Southern Methodist University

  • 1984 - Frederick Hohman, Eastman School of Music

  • 1986 - James Walker, University of Southern California

  • 1991 - Alan Morrison, Curtis Institute of Music

  • 1996 - No first prize awarded

  • 2010 - David Baskeyfield, Eastman School of Music

  • 2013 - Adam Pajan, University of Oklahoma

 

Composition Competition Awards

  • 1980 - Gordon Schuster, "Sonata for Organ"

  • 1994 - Craig Phillips, "Fantasy: Torah Song" (award partially funded by grants from District of Columbia AGO Foundation and San Francisco Chapter, AGO, Special Projects Fund)

  • 2022 - Aaron Travers, "Midnight Toccatas"

Research Grant Recipients

  • 1999 - Burton Tidwell and Nancy Kay Bernard

  • 2000 - Agnes Armstrong, Michael Friesen, Brenda Leach and Barbara Owen

  • 2001 - Ronald Ebrecht

  • 2002 - Laura A Carrasco

  • 2003 - Byron Adams, Ronald Ebrecht and Stephen Warner

  • 2004 - Jane Hettrick, Scott Huntington, Sabin Levi and Stephen Schnurr

  • 2005 - Jonathan B. Hall and Scott M. Hyslop

  • 2006 - Randall D. Engle, Carolyn Shuster Fournier and Tina Fruhauf

  • 2018 - Jane Shatkin Hettrick, Christopher Holman, Alexander Meszler, and Damin Spritzer

  • 2019 - Stephanie Barth, Russell Weismann, Steven Young

  • 2022 - Anne Laver

  • 2023 - Emma Whitten and Damin Spritzer

Research Grant Recipients
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