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| Worcester Telegram & Gazette Article and Video of June 8, 2007: Contestants from around the country, Canada and South Korea competed to advance to the second round of the competition, which will take place in Kaliningrad, Russia in September. Each competitor performed a program repertoire specified by the competition’s organizers. The panel of five distinguished jurors, all of whom are music professors at noted universities and conservatories in the United States, chose two winners, Robert Horton and Jonathan Oldengarm who each receive an award of $2000 to cover expenses of traveling to Russia for the final two rounds. Performances took place at the Assumption College Chapel on Thursday, June 7th from 1:00pm to 3:00pm and on Friday, June 8th from 11:00am to 1:00pm in the presence of Vera Tariverdieva, the widow of composer Mikael Tariverdiev, for whom the competition is named and whose organ compositions are featured in the required repertoire for the contest. On Friday, June 9, at 4:00pm at Wesley United Methodist Church, the 1999 winner of the competition, Jean-Pierre Steijvers from the Netherlands, presented a recital to conclude the event. The program, entitled “From Russia with Love,” included orchestral works by Russian composers transcribed for the organ. Robert Horton Robert Horton, DMA is Assistant Professor of Music at Dordt College. A native of Manville, Rhode Island, he holds academic degrees from Cornell University, Northwestern University and the University of Kansas. Along the way, he has benefited from the counsel of such notables as James Higdon, David Craighead, David Schrader and Michel Bouvard. In 2001, the governments of France and the United States selected him as a Fulbright Scholar. Benefiting from the joint support of both countries, he enrolled at the Conservatoire National de Région in Toulouse, France. There, he studied on some of the finest historic instruments in France, including the celebrated 1889 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Basilica of Saint-Sernin A relative latecomer to the arts, Dr. Horton has worked quickly to establish himself as an organist, garnering numerous prizes in organ competitions both in American and in Europe: the Prix Jacqueline Englert- Marchal in the 2003 Concours d’orgue André Marchal (Biarritz, France); 3rd prize in the Orgelfestival Nijmegen (The Netherlands); the top prize awarded in the 2005 Jordan International Competition (Columbus, GA); and most recently, the Reger Prize in the 2006 American Guild of Organists National Competition. (Chicago, IL) Jonathan Oldengarm Jonathan Oldengarm has been hailed for his “unalloyed musicality and stylish imagination.” Since winning prizes at the Calgary, Dublin, and Royal Canadian College of Organists (RCCO) National Competitions, he has performed regularly in North America, Asia and Europe. He holds a doctorate in organ performance from McGill University (2005), the Fellowship diploma of the RCCO (1996), and studied with Prof. Dr. Ludger Lohmann at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, Germany from 2003-2005. Recent performances include St. Thomas Church, New York City; the Winnipeg Symphony; the Crystal Cathedral’s Hour of Power; Notre Dame Basilica, Montreal; the Grote Kerk, Vlissingen, the Netherlands; the Markuskirche, Stuttgart; and the Matsuzakaya Department Store, Nagoya, Japan. Jonathan Oldengarm teaches basso continuo at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, and is Assistant Director of Music at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, Montreal, Canada. |
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