Dean Billmeyer, professor of organ and harpsichord at the University of Minnesota, gave two concert tours of Germany and Austria this past fall, performing in Bavaria (Füssen and Pfronten) and at the Martin-Luther Kirche in Linz in September. On the first weekend of November, he gave recitals in Saxony in Brand-Erbisdorf and in Cämmerswalde, performing works of Muffat, Böhm, Jean-Antoine Blanc, and J. S. Bach, on organs built by the Gottfried Silbermann pupil Adam Gottfried Oehme.
Billmeyer’s concerts were, in part, preparation for an international Master Course he will hold July 14–18, 2014, together with the Freiberg Cathedral organist Albrecht Koch. Organized in cooperation with the Gottfried Silbermann Society, the course will give organists opportunity to study both the great Silbermann organ in Freiberg Cathedral as well as instruments of Oehme and Zacharias Hildebrandt. For information: www.silbermann.org or contact Prof. Billmeyer at [email protected].
