| Office: | Moody Music 163 |
|---|---|
| Phone: | (205) 348-3329 |
| Email: | ffreese@music.ua.edu |
| Homepage: | music.ua.edu/departments/organ |
Listen to Prof. Freese play Distler’s Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Toccata). Recorded on the Glatter-Gotz/Rosales Organ in Claremont, CA 2006.
Listen to Prof. Freese play Hakim’s To Call my True Love to My Dance (2008), Variation 9: Finale. Recorded June 4 & 5, 2008 on the Messiaen organ at L’Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris.
Dr. Faythe Freese, Associate Professor of Music 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 “powerful …masterful… impressive … brilliant,” Dr. Freese is in demand as a recitalist throughout the United States, Germany, Denmark, South Korea and Singapore. In addition to continuing her concert career, Ms. Freese recruits and teaches undergraduate and graduate organ students majoring in Organ Performance and 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 following compact discs are available by contacting Dr. Freese at faythefreese@earthlink.net
- Faythe Freese à l’Orgue de l’Eglise de la Sainte Trinité, JAV173 (February 2009 release)
- Roaring Ranks with Faythe Freese Arkay AR6176
- Sowerby at Trinity Albany Records Troy 368
- Faythe Freese in Concert Arkay AR6174
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
7710 Lynch Road,
Sebastopol, CA 95472
707-824-5611
Beth Zucchino, Director