Quentin Faulkner is Larson Professor Emeritus of Organ and Music Theory/History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has presented numerous organ recitals throughout the U.S. and in Europe (in particular, on historically significant organs), and has also served for three semesters as visiting professor at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik in Halle, Germany. His research into aspects of J.S. Bach’s keyboard technique has produced the book, J.S. Bach’s Keyboard Technique: A Historical Introduction (Concordia, 1984) and the edition Basic Bach (Wayne Leupold Editions, 1997), a volume containing the Orgelbüchlein and three free works, supplied with fingerings and information on performance practice. He will introduce his latest book, The Registration of J.S. Bach’s Organ Works (Wayne Leupold Editions, 2008) at the 2008 AGO National Convention in the Twin Cities, and he is currently completing a translation of Jacob Adlung’s Musica mechanica organœdi (1768), the most comprehensive source on the organ in central Germany during Bach’s lifetime. He has also authored a book, Wiser than Despair (Greenwood Press, 1996) on the history of ideas in church music.
Dr. Faulkner and his wife, Dr. Mary Murrell Faulkner, retired in 2006, and now live in Amherst, Massachusetts. They serve as parish musicians at St. James Episcopal Church, Greenfield, Massachusetts.