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Timothy Albrecht, Atlanta's Emory University Organist, is hailed in New York's American Organist 2009 review as "demonstrating creative, fertile imagination" and in a 2008 review is praised in the same publication for his "energized, electric performances...Lisztian virtuosity...some of the most riveting, exciting and joyful performances of Bach on record." As Full Professor at Emory University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Candler School of Theology, Timothy Albrecht heads the graduate organ degree program at Emory. Ambidextrous and possessing perfect pitch, Timothy Albrecht spent childhood in Los Angeles and Wisconsin, studying piano first with East-European Eugenia Prekosh. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he earned degrees at Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin College and The Eastman School of Music, which awarded him both the Performer’s Certificate and his doctorate. Cambridge University in England has conferred on him Life Membership. His organ recitals span Alaska to the Andes, Chicago to China, with concert sites including King’s College Cambridge, Tapei National Concert Hall, and St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna and St. Sulpice in Paris. Recitals broadcast on National Public Radio and the BBC. Master classes include Juilliard, Oundle Organ Academy in England and many workshops for the American Guild of Organists. He spends a month every summer teaching and performing in Europe. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin, Dr. Albrecht wrote his doctoral dissertation at Eastman on musical rhetoric in Bach. He is a life member at Cambridge University in England. A recent Bach half-year sabbatical project included several months at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and research at the Bach Archive in Leipzig. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hails Timothy Albrecht’s “ever-present artistry and virtuosity.” Nobel Peace Prize Winner Desmond Tutu wrote him about an upcoming event, “I am so looking forward to that… knowing you will play as if your life depended on it!” Timothy Albrecht has performed organ music of Messiaen before the Dalai Lama. “Unforgettable, because inimitable," writes the Darmstädter Beiträge zur neuen Musik. The New York American Organist states he “plays with a facility and fluency that we all strive for...a sheer pleasure…a delightful musician.” Augsburg Fortress in Minneapolis publishes twelve volumes of organ compositions entitled Grace Notes. He has recorded three Grace Note compact discs that are available at www.augsburgfortress.org/store. Dave Brubeck has written him, “I appreciate your kind dedication and am flattered to be included in your wonderful organ edition [of Grace Notes]. It was a pleasant surprise to discover “Take Five” at the beginning and the ending of “Simple Gifts.” Timothy Albrecht performs exclusively under the Koch Templeton Concert Management For concert bookings contact: libmet@emory.edu
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