Four Yale organ alumni in semi-finals for AGO summer competition

The National Competition in Organ Improvisation recently announced the semi-finalists for this summer’s competition at the American Guild of Organists (AGO) conference in  San Francisco in June. Four of the five are ISM alumni and students of Jeffrey Brillhart. They are Jerrick Cavagnaro M.M. ’20, Ethan Haman M.M.A. ’23, Chase Loomer M.M. ’20, and Nicholas Quardokus M.M. ’18.

Brillhart himself is an award-winning organist and lecturer in organ improvisation at the ISM. He said that each of the organists has a “unique and special voice” and that he is “overjoyed for each of them.”