Fridays at 12 noon
Trinity Episcopal Church, Reno, Nevada, hosts recitals on Fridays at 12 noon:
September 2, Thomas Joyce;
9/16, Joyce Rhodes;
October 7, James Hicks;
10/21, David Hatt;
November 4, Dominic Pau;
11/18, Joan Chambers;
December 2, Michael Lynch;
12/16, Philip Manwell.
For information: www.trinityreno.org.
Died July 20
André Isoir died July 20, on his birthday. Born July 20, 1935, in Saint-Dizier, France, he studied organ and piano at the École César-Franck. He then studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Rolande Falcinelli (organ), winning first prizes in organ and improvisation in 1960.
First Prize to Colin MacKnight
The 2016 Arthur Poister Scholarship Competition in Organ Playing took place April 9 on the Holtkamp organ in Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University. First Prize went to Colin MacKnight, an MM candidate at Juilliard studying with Paul Jacobs. Colin also holds a BM from Juilliard and will begin the DMA program at Juilliard this fall. He will play his winner’s recital in the fall in Setnor Auditorium (the Crouse Holtkamp, 1950) at Syracuse University.
Died on May 26 in Tallahassee, Florida
Joel Ross Hastings, a resident of Tallahassee, Florida, died on May 26. He was 46. Born July 22, 1969, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, he spent his childhood in North Bay and Windsor. He earned degrees in organ (BM) and piano (MM, DMA) from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. At the time of his death he was on the piano faculty at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Hastings performed in venues across North America and Europe and made a number of recordings.
Appointed music director
F. Anthony Thurman has been appointed music director at the First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completes 22 years as music director at the Irvington Presbyterian Church, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, where he oversaw the selection, design, and installation of a 3-manual, 29-stop organ by Orgelbau Klais (Bonn, Germany) in 2001, and Whitechapel Bell Foundry (London, England) tower bells in 2007.
Donald Wayne Dumler, age 77, died March 20 in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Born in 1938, he joined the staff of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City in 1970 as associate director of music.
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