Author: Karl-Mary Akre

Christine Gevert, holds a master’s degree in organ and early music performance from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg, Germany. After earning a bachelor’s degree in music theory from…

Maria Bucka has been a professional musician in Minneapolis, MN for over 60 years.  She did her undergraduate/graduate work as a double major in piano and organ at the University…

Organist, lecturer, and pedagogue Katelyn Emerson, hailed as “one of the world’s most promising organists” (Listvinafélag Hallgrímskirkju [Iceland]), is internationally renowned for performances throughout North America, Europe, and Asia that…

Elena Sartori was born in Ravenna in 1967 and she started studying music when she was only 4 years old, with the tutoring of her mother. She studied at the “Girolamo…

Alla Borzova is an awards-winning composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and soprano (lyric coloratura). She is the winner of All-Union Composition Competition, Delius International Competition, a recipient of many awards (including…

Anne Laver performs frequently in the United States and Europe, and has been a featured recitalist and clinician at regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the…

By Rani Fischer Read the PDF version here. I am writing in the middle of the Covid-19 shutdown while New York City is drowning in grief, Kenyans are being beaten…