The Department of Music offers:

• Bachelor of Music, Master of Music and Doctor of Music degree programs in Applied Music Organ Performance.
  
  
• Courses in organ performance, the organ and organ literature; hymnody and creative service playing.
  
  
• Regular opportunities to perform on the noon-hour organ recital series and the annual "Service of Lessons and Carols."
  
  
• Opportunities to hear, play and perform on the Davis Concert Organ in the Winspear Centre for Music. The Department of Music now has the U of A Davis Concert Organ noon hour series.
  
  
• Opportunities to study choral conducting, chamber music and other related performance courses.
  
  
• A faculty of renowned artists and scholars including Marnie Giesbrecht, Professor of Organ Studies; Debra Cairns. Robert de Frece and Leonard Ratzlaff, Professors of Choral Studies; and Adjunct Professors Jacobus Kloppers (organ) and Joachim Segger (improvisation).
  
  
• Recitals and workshops by faculty and national and international visiting artists.
  
  
• Visiting artists include: Kimberly Marshall, David Higgs, Carole Terry, Neil Cockburn, Peter Planavsky, Stefan Bleicher, Joachim Vogelsänger, Peter Hurford, Thomas Trotter, Anthony Newman, James Welch, Jeffrey Campbell, David Palmer, Luc Beausejour, Michael Bloss, Karen Holmes, Rejean Poirier and others.
  
  
• Beryl Barns Memorial Awards in Performance for undergraduate and graduate students.
  
  
• Opportunities for teaching and research assistantships for graduate students.
  

For undergraduate information and application forms e-mail: tkrohman@ualberta.ca
For graduate information and application forms e-mail: donna.maskell@ualberta.ca

For more information on organ performance studies at the University of Alberta, contact Marnie Giesbrecht at: marnie.giesbrecht@ualberta.ca