James D. Hicks lives and works out of Bernardsville, NJ, USA, and holds degrees in music from the Peabody Institute of Music, Yale University, and the University of Cincinnati. Other studies include instruction at the Royal School of Church Music in England. He is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists. Hicks held liturgical positions throughout the eastern United States, and in 2011 retired after twenty‐six years of service at The Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey.

Christoph Hintermueller is appointed music director for St. Mary Catholic Church, Marshall, Michigan. 

He recently completed his studies with Jesse Eschbach at the University of North Texas, Denton. A native of Germany, he has held church positions where he was responsible for a choir and organ series, and he earned multiple awards in Germany for his Innovative Concert Projects presentations. Hintermueller’s focus in recent years has been American organ and choral music, much of it unknown in Germany. 

Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, announces publication of a new book, Garden of Music: Musical Instruments & Performing Arts at Longwood Gardens ($38), by Colvin Randall with Jonathan Ambrosino. 

The Association of Anglican Musicians (AAM) is offering free memberships for full-time students. This program has been underwritten by a legacy gift from Delbert Disselhorst, honoring his passion for working with students, notably as professor of organ at the University of Iowa from 1970 until 2008. 

James P. Callahan of St. Paul, Minnesota, died December 28, 2023. He was born on January 15, 1942, in Fargo, North Dakota and raised in Albany, Minnesota. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964 from St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in piano and a Ph.D. in music theory and composition from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. In addition, he studied at the Mozarteum University, Salzburg, Austria, and Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Vienna, Austria.

OHS Press announces the publication of Camille Saint-Saëns: Organist-Composer, by Rollin Smith ($49.99 plus shipping). 

The book provides a biographical view of Saint-Saëns as organist and composer, including chapters on the construction and settings of instruments he played (harmonium, Aeolian organ, and Cavaillé-Coll organs, among others). Within the eleven appendices are essays by and about Saint-Saëns, his recordings, specifications of organs that he played, and a thematic catalog of his works for harmonium and organ. 

David Bartlett, 76, born August 5, 1947, died December 18, 2023, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His musical career began as a young chorister in the local family church in Folkestone, Kent, England. He attended the Royal College of Music, London, where he was an organ student of Ralph Downes and then moved to Salzburg where he studied at the Mozarteum with Michael Schneider. He participated many times in the International Summer Organ Academy in Haarlem, the Netherlands.

Alice Stuart Parker, 98, born December 16, 1925, in Boston, Massachusetts, died December 24, 2023, in Hawley, Massachusetts. Having grown up in Winchester, Massachusetts, she graduated from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1947, having studied organ and composition. After earning a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from The Juilliard School in New York City two years later, she began teaching in a high school. Parker would then study and begin a long collaboration with Robert Shaw and the Robert Shaw Chorale.

Seven Eight Artists announces the addition of Lukas Hasler to its roster. 

With over 80,000 followers on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, Hasler is one of the world’s most successful and visible organists on social media. A native of Austria, he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz with Ulrich Walther. Additional work was with Johann Vexo in France. He is currently a doctoral student of Cherry Rhodes at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.