Program Recognition
•NASM-accredited (National Association of Schools of Music)
•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
•Weekly applied lesson (60 or 30 min) with keyboard faculty, plus weekly organ performance class and seminar
•Seminar emphasis on hymn playing, sight reading, organ registration, and instrument design
•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
•No graduate students — undergraduates fill every solo and service-playing opportunity
Performance & Productions
•Half-hour Monday Organ Recitals give students a recurring public-performance outlet, alongside required general student recitals each semester
•Solo and collaborative performance opportunities across campus services and concerts
Facilities
•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
