David Baskeyfield has been added to the roster of Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists by virtue of his having won the most recent St. Albans International Organ Competition, both the top interpretation prize and the prize of the audience.
He is also a prize winner in competitions in Ireland, New Jersey, and California, and won both the first and audience prizes at the Miami International Organ Competition and the most recent AGO national competition in organ improvisation.
A doctoral student at the Eastman School of Music, Baskeyfield read law at Oxford, where he was organ scholar at St John’s College and studied with John Wellingham and David Sanger. Following a year as organ scholar at both of the Anglican cathedrals in Dublin, he began a master’s degree at Eastman, where he now continues in the studio of David Higgs and studies improvisation with William Porter.
In Rochester he continues to be active as an accompanist, continuo player, occasional cocktail pianist, and sometime keyboardist in a 60s rock tribute band. He also enjoys frequent access to the large Wurlitzer organ in the Auditorium Theatre downtown, and has recently been elected as a director on the board of the Rochester Theatre Organ Society. He has been broadcast a number of times on American Public Media’s Pipedreams.
Baskeyfield has participated in masterclasses given by Marie-Claire Alain, Edoardo Bellotti, Stephen Bicknell, Michel Bouvard, Kevin Bowyer, David Briggs, Mel Butler, Bine Katrine Bryndorff, Hans Davidsson, Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet-Hakim, David Goode, Naji Hakim, David Higgs, Matthew Halls, Nicolas Kynaston, Jon Laukvik, Ludger Lohmann, Jacques van Oortmerssen, Anne Page, James Parsons, William Porter, Joel Speerstra, Thomas Trotter, and Harald Vogel. He cooks, brews, and keeps Malawi cichlids.
For information: www.concertartists.com.
