Jeffrey Brillhart

Jeffrey Brillhart  Concert Organist

"...that Brillhart was the winner was unquestionable..." The American Organist

Jeffrey Brillhart is Director of Music and Fine Arts at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr, PA and on the music faculty at Yale University, where he teaches organ improvisation. He is also Music Director of Philadelphia's famed Singing City Choir. A proud native of Iowa, his teachers include Carl B. Staplin, Arthur Poister, Russell Saunders, and Barbara Lister-Sink. Further studies with Olivier Latry and Philippe Lefebvre in organ improvisation led to his winning first prize in the American Guild of Organists' National Competition in Organ Improvisation in 1994. 

His organ, teaching, and conducting engagements have taken him throughout America, Europe and South America, with engagements in Paris, Philadelphia, San Diego, Seattle, Birmingham, Waco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York City, Iowa City, Des Moines, Walla Walla, and Worcester. In May 2006, he made his Pittsburgh Symphony debut in one of the inaugural concerts of the new Dobson Organ in Kimmel Center. 

Jeffrey Brillhart is available for solo recitals, conducting engagements, repertoire masterclasses and masterclasses on organ improvisation. For more information.

This page was last updated on 10/03/07.