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April 2005
Mary Newton
May 2 - 12:35 p.m.
Biography
Mary Newton holds a Master's degree in Church Music from Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Her teachers include Stephen Gabrielsen, Gregory Petersen, and Steven Wente.
Currently, Mary serves as organist at St. Barnabas Lutheran Church in Plymouth and teaches private piano in Minnetonka. She is pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Minnesota and is a student of Dr. Dean Billmeyer.
Jeffrey Patry
Sacred Heart, Robbinsdale, MN
May 9 - 12:35 p.m.
Biography
Jeffrey Patry is currently the Director of Music and Principal Organist at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Robbinsdale. In addition, he is on the faculty of Normandale Community College as the staff accompanist. In 1998 he graduated from St. Olaf College with the B.M. in Organ Performance, studying under John Ferguson and Douglas Cleveland. In 1998, he won second place in the American Guild of Organists Wichita Competition. Jeffrey is frequently an accompanist for events surrounding the Twin Cities.
Frances Nobert
Professor Emeritus - Whittier, CA
May 16 - 12:35 p.m.
Biography
Frances Nobert is College Organist and Professor Emerita at Whittier College. She is also serving as Region IX Councillor for the American Guild of Organists and as Vice President of the Mader Corporation.
Dr. Nobert earned the degrees Bachelor of Music from Salem College, Master of Music from Syracuse University and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California. As a recipient of a Fulbright Grant, she studied organ, harpsichord and piano in Germany. Her organ teachers have included John Mueller, Helmut Walcha and Arthur Poister. For many seasons she sang with the Los Angeles Master Chorale under the direction of Roger Wagner and served as the accompanist for a nationwide tour of the Roger Wagner Chorale.
She has performed for conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society, as well as for national and international festivals and conferences related to the position of women in the music profession. She has appeared as recitalist in many American cities and in China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Korea and Spain.
Dr. Nobert has served on the faculties of Valley Community College in Van Nuys , Pomona College in Claremont, and California Polytechnic Institute in Pomona. She has also been the organist at Arcadia Presbyterian Church, All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, United Church of Christ, Congregational, in Claremont, St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Whittier and First United Methodist Church in Pasadena.
Dr. Nobert may be heard on Organ Historical Society’s recordings of the Organs of Maine and on the Raven-label release, Music, She Wrote: Organ Compositions by Women.
Bradley Althoff
The Church of St. Louis, King of France
Pipedreams
May 23 - 12:35 p.m.
Biography
Bradley Althoff has been the Associate Organist at the Little French Church since 1998. He earned a Master of Music degree from Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ) and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he also received a degree in History. His primary teachers have included Joan Lippincott, Robert Carwithen and Dean Billmeyer. He has served on the board for the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and he gave the Pipedreams broadcast premiere of In Mystery and Wonder by Dan Locklair, a commission in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Casavant Organbuilders.
During the day, Brad is an Associate Producer for Pipedreams at Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media, having recently returned from a two week organ tour of Southern Germany/Northern Switzerland.
©2005 The Church of Saint Louis, King of France