Faythe Freese
Dr. Faythe Freese, Associate Professor of Organ at the University of Alabama School of Music, holds degrees in organ performance and church music from Indiana University. Her organ teachers have included Marilyn Keiser, Robert Rayfield, William Eifrig and Phillip Gehring. As a Fulbright scholar and an Indiana University/Kiel Ausstausch Programme participant, she studied the works of Jean Langlais with the composer in France, and the works of Max Reger with Heinz Wunderlich in Germany.

With performances described as “a tour de force... dazzling... powerful... brilliant,” Dr. Freese is in demand as a recitalist throughout the United States, Germany and Denmark. In addition to continuing her concert career, Ms. Freese teaches undergraduate and graduate organ students majoring in Organ Performance or Church Music at the UA School of Music.

Dr. Freese has held faculty positions at Indiana University, Concordia University in Austin, University of North Dakota-Williston, and Andrew College. Ms. Freese has also held church music and symphony orchestra positions in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, North Dakota, Texas and Ohio.

Dr. Freese is the author of publications entitled Sunday Morning Organist: A Survivor’s Guide for the Pianist and Sonus Novus: Intonations and Harmonizations, available from Concordia Publishing House.

Recordings by Faythe Freese:

FEBRUARY 2009 RELEASE!!!

Faythe Freese à l’Orgue de l’Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris, JAV173
Faythe Freese, Associate Professor of Organ, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
Recording premiere: Hakim,To Call My True Love to My Dance; Guilmant,Caprice; Langlais, Chant Heroique, Chant de Paix, Chant de joie; Messiaen, Offrande au St. Sacrement and Monodie; Tournemire, L’Orgue Mystique XXV: In Festo Pentecostes, Op. 56. Recorded June 2008, 205-348-3329, faythefreese@earthlink.net

Roaring Ranks with Faythe Freese, Arkay AR6176
Faythe Freese, Associate Professor of Organ, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. Glatter-Götz/Rosales Organ, United Church of Christ, Claremont, CA. Howells, Three Psalm-Preludes, Set Two, No. 3; Camphuysen MS., Variations on Daphne; J.S. Bach, Einige canonische Veränderungen über das Weihnachtslied: Vom Himmel hoch da komm’ ich her, S.769.; Dupré, Symphonie-Passion, Op. 23, Crucifixion, Résurrection; Vierne, Sixième Symphonie, Final, 205-348-3329, faythefreese@earthlink.net

Faythe Freese in Concert, Arkay AR6174
Faythe Freese, organist. The University of Alabama, Moody School of Music, 87-rank Holtkamp Concert Hall Organ. Reger, Phantasie für Orgel über den Choral: Wie schön leucht’t uns der Morgenstern; Clérambault, Suite du deuxieme ton; J.S. Bach, Praeludium und Fuge in D-Dur, S.532. 205-348-3329, faythefreese@earthlink.net

Sowerby at Trinity, Albany Records Troy 368
Faythe Freese, Associate Professor of Organ, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. E.M. Skinner, Op. 165 (1909-1910) Trinity Episcopal Church, Toledo, OH (Organ no longer extant). Suite for Organ, Fantasy for Trumpet and Organ, Ballad, Rhapsody, Pageant, 205-348-3329, faythefreese@earthlink.net