Dr. Faythe Freese
Associate Professor of Organ
The University of Alabama

Dr. Faythe Freese, Associate Professor of Organ at the University of Alabama School of Music, holds degrees in organ performance and church music from Indiana University. Her organ teachers have included Marilyn Keiser, Robert Rayfield, William Eifrig and Phillip Gehring. 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.

With performances described as “a tour de force… dazzling… powerful… brilliant,” Dr. Freese is in demand as a recitalist throughout the United States, Germany and Denmark. In addition to continuing her concert career, Ms. Freese teaches undergraduate and graduate organ students majoring in Organ Performance or Church Music at the UA School of Music.

Dr. Freese has held faculty positions at Indiana University, Concordia University in Austin, University of North Dakota-Williston, and Andrew College. Ms. Freese has also held church music and symphony orchestra positions in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, North Dakota, Texas and Ohio.

Compact discs include: Roaring Ranks with Faythe Freese Arkay AR6176, Sowerby at Trinity Albany Records Troy 368 and Faythe Freese in Concert Arkay AR6174 and are available by contacting Dr. Freese at faythefreese@earthlink.net.  Dr. Freese is the author of publications entitled Sunday Morning Organist: A Survivor’s Guide for the Pianist and Sonus Novus: Intonations and Harmonizations, available from Concordia Publishing House. She is on the concert roster of:

Concert Artist Cooperative
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Sebastopol, CA 95472
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Recordings by Faythe Freese:

•  Roaring Ranks with Faythe Freese. “The level of playing is impeccable, as is the selection of pieces recorded”, The American Organist, November 2006.
Faythe Freese, Associate 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. Arkay AR6176. 205-348-3329, faythefreese@earthlink.net

•  Faythe Freese in Concert.
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. Arkay AR6174. 205-348-3329, faythefreese@earthlink.net