April 19, 2017
East Carolina University held its 11th Annual Young Artists’ Competition in Organ Performance for high school organists March 18 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Greenville, North Carolina. Prizes were sponsored by East Carolina Musical Arts Education Foundation, C. B. Fisk, Inc., and East Carolina Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Both first prize and the Bach prize were awarded to Bruce Xu.
Second prize and the hymn-playing prize were awarded to Danielle Little.
Third prize was awarded to Justin Brueggeman.
Pictured in front of C. B. Fisk Opus 126 are the competitors with ECU faculty and judge Peggy Haas Howell of Lynchburg, Virginia.
