Faythe Freese
Faythe Freese, Professor of Music at the University of Alabama School of Music, holds degrees in organ performance and church music from Indiana University. She has held faculty positions at Indiana University, Concordia University in Austin, University of North Dakota-Williston, and Andrew College. 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. Her organ teachers have included Marilyn Keiser, Robert Rayfield, William Eifrig and Phillip Gehring.

With performances described as “powerful... masterful... impressive... brilliant,” Dr. Freese is in demand as a recitalist throughout the United States, Germany, Denmark, South Korea and Singapore. She will be a featured performer and clinician at the 2011 American Guild of Organists Region IV Convention in Greensboro, NC. Dr. Freese was a featured artist and lecturer at the 2010 American Guild of Organists National Convention in Washington, D.C. and a featured performer at the 2001 American Guild of Organists Region VII Convention in San Antonio, TX. Ms. Freese recruits and teaches undergraduate and graduate organ students majoring in Organ Performance and Church Music at the UA School of Music.

Dr. Freese is the author of publications entitled Sunday Morning Organist: A Survivor’s Guide for the Pianist and Sonus Novus: Intonations and Harmonizations (Concordia Publishing House). She is on the roster of Concert Artist Cooperative, BethZucchino@aol.com

Recordings by Faythe Freese:

Faythe Freese à l’Orgue de l’Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris, JAV173
Faythe Freese, 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.

Roaring Ranks with Faythe Freese, Arkay AR6176
Faythe Freese, 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.

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.

Sowerby at Trinity, Albany Records Troy 368
Faythe Freese, 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.

Email: faythefreese@earthlink.net