Someone You Should Know
Read why these members value the American Guild of Organists and the North Shore Chapter.
Someone You Should Know: Hailey Jiyoun Jun
Hello, this is Hailey Jiyoun Jun. I was always interested in organ because I learned and played organ in Korea. However, as I come to the United States, the bond between me and organ seemed to end. Thankfully, though, I was able to continue learning the organ through...
Someone You Should Know: Solomon Davids
October 2019
Last spring I was approached by organist, colleague, and friend Sharon Peterson to see if my son, Solomon, might be interested in North Shore Chapter AGO’s Organ Scholar Initiative program providing three free organ lessons and a year-long AGO membership. I wasn’t...
Someone You Should Know
September 2019
Introducing Marianne Kim A Chicago-based composer, organist, pianist, and harpsichordist, Marianne Kim has been noted for her vibrant performances and compositions in a wide diversity of musical styles, such as classical, jazz, Broadway musical, R&B, gospel,...
July 2019
Someone You Should Know
Dr. Charles Sundquist Dr. Charles Sundquist is a native of Duluth, MN. Currently, he is Artistic Director for “Anima – Glenn Ellyn Children’s Chorus”. He has served as Choral Director at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, Mountain Lakes and Princeton High Schools...
Someone You Should Know
June 2019
Elizabeth Brown studied organ with David Thorburn at North Park College, where she graduated in 1972 with a degree in Math, and went on to a career as a CPA and attorney. For most of her career, she served as Assistant General Counsel and then General Counsel for The...
Someone You Should Know
May 2019
Lowell Johnson My husband, Lowell, began his life-long love of the pipe organ, and the music it could produce, at the Dutch Reformed Church in Roseland where his aunt was organist. We shared a piano background but once we’d settled in Deerfield, he began organ lessons...
Obituary: William A. Crowle
William A. Crowle – 9/25/56-3/16/19 Long-time member, William A. Crowle, (Bill), 62, died peacefully in his home in Vernon Hills, IL of cancer on March 16, 2019. Bill began piano study at the age of four, and violin at 6. He attended the Eastman School of Music,...
Someone You Should Know
March 2019
Dr. J. Paul Cochran is organist at St. John United Church of Christ. He received piano and organ training from Jack Ruhl in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and holds a Master’s degree in Piano from the University of Redlands and a Doctor of Music in composition from Northwestern...
January 2019
A Musical Journey
It seems a lifetime ago that I was just a grade school kid at St. Francis Xavier School in Wilmette. At that time, the school offered free music lessons…students would leave class and walk across the parking lot to the convent. My piano teacher, Sister Marian Celeste,...
October 2018
A Swell Silver Lining
Kirsten Santos Rutschman As the energy of fall swirls around and students return to school, I am drawn back to the whirlwind first days of my freshman year at Stanford University, where I promptly failed to make the cut for private piano study. Not to be deterred for...