Frederick Hohman visited Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, on June 25 to test, register, and revise his new solo organ composition on the organ at Cogswell Hall of Music.
In November 2017, Hohman was named the 2019 recipient of the American Guild of Organists’ Pogorzelski-Yankee Competition for New Organ Music. The fourth award recipient in this annual competition from a field of over 50 applicants, Hohman’s award consists of a $10,000 commission for a new solo organ work of between 10 and 12 minutes’ duration.
The work is to be written in a manner that will complement the tonal resources of the organ, a two-manual instrument with mechanical action, built by Raymond J. Brunner and Co. and installed in 2014.
The finished score is scheduled for delivery in September 2018, with the work to be premiered in March 2019.
