Program Recognition
•Bullet: NASM-accredited (National Association of Schools of Music)
•Bullet: Organ instruction is led from the Charles and Mary Sukup Endowed Artist in Organ — a named faculty chair funding a world-class resident organist/instructor
Training
•Bullet: Weekly applied lesson (60 or 30 min) with keyboard faculty, plus weekly organ performance class and seminar
•Bullet: Seminar emphasis on hymn playing, sight reading, organ registration, and instrument design
•Bullet: Inaugural Sukup Endowed Artist Dr. Miriam Zach (Northwestern, University of Chicago; five years of European study with Jobst Hermann Koch in Lemgo, Germany and in Paris) brings organ, harpsichord, and music-history coursework
•Bullet: No graduate students — undergraduates fill every solo and service-playing opportunity
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Half-hour Monday Organ Recitals give students a recurring public-performance outlet, alongside required general student recitals each semester
•Bullet: Solo and collaborative performance opportunities across campus services and concerts
Facilities
•Bullet: Four department pipe organs: a three-manual John Brombaugh & Associates tracker (1987) in Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall; a seven-stop, two-manual tracker by Wolff of Quebec; and two mechanical-action organs (three-stop and seventeen-stop) by Lynn Dobson of Lake City, Iowa
