Stefan Engels to SMU

Stefan Engels has been appointed professor and chair of the organ department at Southern Methodist University Meadows School of the Arts and named to the Leah Young Fullinwinder Endowed Centennial Chair in Music Performance.

Engels, winner of the 1998 Calgary International Organ Competition, joins SMU from the University of Music and Performing Arts “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig, Germany, where he shaped the organ program at the university’s Church Music Institute to international acclaim. Engels will teach in the Meadows School of the Arts and in the Master of Sacred Music program in the Perkins School of Theology.

Engels, who performs under the management of Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc., will present his first concert at SMU on November 22, with a program in partnership with the Dallas Bach Society that will feature a Baroque orchestra.