East Carolina University announces the results of the Eighth Annual Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance, held in Greenville, North Carolina, on March 1.
First prize (sponsored by C.B. Fisk, Inc.) was awarded to Katherine Johnson of Wilson, North Carolina, a student of Andrew Scanlon. Johnson also earned the hymn playing prize and the Bach prize, in recognition of the day’s most convincing performance of a work by J. S. Bach.
Second prize (sponsored by East Carolina Musical Arts Education Foundation) was awarded to Patricia Tanzer of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a student of Timothy Olsen; and third prize (sponsored by the East Carolina Chapter AGO) was awarded to Laura Agner of Salisbury, North Carolina, a student of Dr. Jacquie Yost.
Guest artist and adjudicator for the event was Christopher Jacobson, associate organist-choirmaster at Trinity Cathedral in Columbia, South Carolina. All events were held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville, and the participants are pictured in front of the C.B. Fisk Opus 126 organ at St. Paul’s.
Photo: Andrew Scanlon, Patricia Tanzer, Katherine Johnson, Laura Agner, Steve Dieck, and Christopher Jacobson at East Carolina University
