Bine Bryndorf is professor of organ at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen. She has given concerts and master classes all over Europe, in Japan and in the USA. She has recorded the organ works of  J.S.Bach, D. Buxtehude and contemporary composers for the Hänssler, Dacapo, and Classico lables. In 2007 she completed a prize-winning recording of all of Buxtehude’s organ works for Dacapo Records (see www.dacapo-records.dk) . She is President of the Jury for the Odense International Organ Competition and is regularly sought after as a member of international juries.

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Stayce Camparo has been dancing and choreographing all her life.  Since 2003, she has danced with the Kansas City Ballet and has spent that time devoting her passion and work to the Kansas City audiences. Raised in Redondo Beach, California, Stayce trained in Santa Monica while participating in prestigious dance programs in New York, Philadelphia, and Seattle where she spent two years on full scholarship in the professional division program.

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From 1987–2005, Hans Davidsson served as professor of organ at the School of Music at Göteborg University, and from 1994–2009 as the Artistic Director of the Göteborg International Organ Academy (GIOA). He is the founder of the Göteborg Organ Art Center (GOArt). From 2001–2012, he served as professor of organ at the Eastman School of Music and project director of the Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI). Read More about Hans Davidsson »

A native of Göteborg, Sweden, Jonathan Davidsson trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet School before relocating to Rochester, New York; completing his training at the Timothy M. Draper Center for Dance Education and the Kirov Academy of Ballet on scholarship. Mr. Davidsson was a member of the Houston Ballet where he danced as the Prince in Cinderella, the Prince and Russian in The Nutcracker, soloist roles in La Sylphide, Jiri Kylian’s Petite Mort, Christopher Wheeldon’s Carousel and Houston Ballet’s artistic director Stanton Welch’s Falling, Four Seasons, Clear and Brigade. Read More about Jonathan Davidsson »

Pieter Dirksen performs as a soloist on both harpsichord and organ and as a continuo player with various chamber ensembles. He completed his musicological studies with honours in 1987 and since then has published widely about Baroque keyboard music. In 1996 he received his doctorate ‘cum laude’ with a dissertation on the keyboard music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, which was awarded the Dutch Erasmus Prize. Read More about Pieter Dirksen »

Frederick K. Gable taught at the University of California, Riverside, from 1968 to his retirement in 2006. His courses included Music History Survey to 1900, Seminar in Baroque Music, Performance Practices of Early Music, Music of J. S. Bach and Construction of Early Instruments; he also directed the Collegium Musicum. He received his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1966 with a dissertation on the polychoral motets of Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629) and continues editing Praetorius’ vocal works. Read More about Fred Gable »

Ulrike Heider was born in Erlangen, Germany and moved to the Netherlands for her professional music studies. She has earned degrees from several conservatories, in church music and organ (with Bert Matter and Hans van Nieuwkoop in Arnhem), in choral and orchestral conducting and in Early Music ensemble singing. She is active as a conductor, church musician and organist and has given recitals in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Norway and Sweden. Read More about Ulrike Heider »

Magnus Kjellson is the creative director of the ensemble Göteborg Baroque and organist in the German Church in Göteborg. He was educated at the Academy for Music and Drama in Göteborg, where he received his soloist diploma, and at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He studied with Rune Wåhlberg, Hans Davidsson and Hans van Nieuwkoop. From 1995–2007 he taught organ interpretation and liturgical organ at the Academy of Music and Drama in Göteborg. Read More about Magnus Kjellson »

Karin Nelson was born in Skellefteå in the far north of Sweden. She studied music and education at the Piteå School of Music and church music at the Gothenburg School of Music. From the latter she also received her Soloist Diploma. During two years at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam she studied harpsichord and organ. Nelson earned her doctorate with a dissertation titled Improvisation and Pedagogy through Heinrich Scheidemann’s Magnificat Settings. Nelson is senior lecturer in organ repertoire and organ improvisation at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg. She gives regular recitals in Sweden and abroad and has made several recordings.

Ibo Ortgies (*1960, Norden, Germany) studied musicology in Hamburg and Göteborg where he earned his Ph.D. in 2004. His research and publications are based on extensive archival evidence and cover a wide variety of subjects: biographical studies about composers and instrument- and organ builders, manuscript studies (Zellerfeld-tablature), and organ building history 1500-1800. A main focus has been on the temperaments and tuning of organs in relation to performance practice in Northern and Central Germany and the Netherlands from ca 1500 until the time of J. S. Bach. Ortgies’s research has contributed to new views on keyboard music of the German Baroque and its perfomance practice. He has lectured frequently in Europe and the USA. After the foundation of GOArt in 1995 at the University of Gothenburg he collaborated closely as an external organ adviser and researcher and was appointed to the staff in 1999. https://sites.google.com/site/iboortgies/

Joel Speerstra is a Lecturer at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg where he is also a researcher and the publications director at the Göteborg Organ Art Center. He is active as an instrument builder, performer and musicologist. He studied the organ with William Porter and David Boe at Oberlin Conservatory before continuing in Europe on several grants that allowed him to study organ and clavichord with Harald Vogel as well as instrument building with John Barnes.His doctoral project led to the reconstruction of the Gerstenberg pedal clavichord, and a book published in 2004 for Rochester University Press: “Bach and the Pedal Clavichord: An Organist’s Guide”.  He has given performances and presentations for the British, Boston and German Clavichord Societies and the international clavichord symposia in Magnano. Speerstra is also a regular member of the Organ Academy in  Smarano. His research on the pedal clavichord was awarded the 2011 Hilding Rosenberg prize in musicology from the Swedish Academy of Music.

Koos van de Linde was born in Rotterdam in 1954. After obtaining the Bachelor of Science degree in molecular sciences (physics), he studied musicology at Utrecht University and organ at the Utrecht Conservatory, where he received his master’s degree under Professor Nico van den Hooven in 1983. Beginning in 1981, he participated for more than ten years in a research project led by Jan van Biezen to document preserved elements of Dutch Renaissance organs. Read More about Koos van de Linde »