Stephen Buzard is featured on a new recording, In Light or Darkness, on the Delos label (DE 3406). Recorded on the Buzard pipe organ Opus 37 at Second Presbyterian Church, Bloomington, Illinois, the program includes Mendelssohn, Sonata IV; Schubert, arr. Buzard, Du bist die Ruh; Paulus, Blithely breezing along; Vierne, Adagio and Final (Symphonie III); Howells, Psalm Prelude, Set II, No. 2; and Reubke, Sonata on the 94th Psalm.
Stephen is the son of John-Paul Buzard, organbuilder of Champaign, Illinois, and Linda Buzard, organist and choirmaster at the Chapel of St. John the Divine in Champaign. He is the winner of the 2009 Joan Lippincott Competition and the 2010 Arthur Poister Competition.
He earned his bachelor’s degree at Westminster Choir College, where he studied with Ken Cowan; he served as organ scholar at Trinity Episcopal Church, Princeton, as well as director of music for the Episcopal Church at Princeton University. He has been appointed senior organ scholar at Wells Cathedral in England for 2010–2011.
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June 18, 2010
THE DIAPASON
