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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 Artistic Director of Philadelphia's famed Singing City Choir. A proud native of Iowa, his teachers include organists Carl B. Staplin, Arthur Poister, Russell Saunders, and pianist 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. He has presented master classes at the Eastman School of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music, the University of Alabama, Furman University, and Westminster Choir College. His improvisation textbook, Breaking Free: Finding a Personal Voice for Improvisation through 20th Century French Improvisation Techniques, was published by Wayne Leupold Editions in November 2011. Click here to download the table of contents and an excerpt from Breaking Free.

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

To hear several improvisations in Song Form recorded for an article published in The American Organist (August 2011), click here.

+ October 9: Longwood Gardens.
Solo Recital.

+ October 23: Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. Two-piano recital with Laura Ward. Works by Mozart, Schumann, Schmitt, Debussy and Gliere.

+ October 30: Kimmel Center. Organist for Festival of a 1000 Boy Sopranos. Kimmel Center

+ November 10-13: American Guild of Organists Pedagogy Conference (two concerts, two workshops, and two panel discussions)

+ November 20: Singing City Fall Concert (conducting). Works by Ren� Clausen, William Billings, Samuel Barber, Dave Brubeck, Moses Hogan, Aaron Copland, and more

+ December 11: Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church "Christmas Light" (conducting). Senior Choir and The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

+ December 18: Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square. Christmas Concert with Singing City and Keystone State Boy Choir

+ February 20: Orlando, Florida, American Guild of Organists improvisation master classes

+ March 10: Kimmel Center. Concert with Canadian Brass

+August 30-September 10, judge for the Grand Prix de Chartres.