Welcome to my Services page. Here, you can explore more fully how I can help you with your specific needs.

Organ Lessons

Organ Lessons are designed to help students develop their skills in playing the organ, focusing on technique, musicality, and repertoire.

Lessons can be on the Hauptwerk organ in my studio or, in special cases, at a student's instrument.

I participate in the Greater Hartford Chapter AGO's scholarship program that gives persons interested in learning to play the organ the opportunity to undertake formal study of the instrument.  Click here for more information.

  • Personalized instruction
  • Comprehensive curriculum
  • All levels welcome

Harpsichord Lessons

Experience the beauty of the harpsichord through expert guidance and tailored lessons that focus on historical performance practice and interpretation.

My studio includes three different instruments:

Carl Fudge Franco-Flemish double
Carl Dudash South German single
Zuckerman Flemish single converted to a lautenwerk 

  • Expert guidance
  • Historical performance practice
  • Tailored lessons

Harpsichord Tuning & Maintenance

I tune and maintain all of my instruments. I have tuned and worked on instruments in area churches, schools and private homes. I can:

  • replace broken plectra and broken strings
  • regulate the action
  • tune to various historic temperaments
  • give advice on an instrument's condition and reliability

 

Continuo Performances
Organ or Harpsichord 

Do you have a concert coming up that needs organ or harpsichord continuo?  My instruments and I travel all around Southern New England! My instruments have transposing keyboards for A= 440 or 415. 

Performances with:

  • Hartford Symphony
  • Hartford Chorale
  • CONCORA
  • Yale Camerata
  • Arcadia Baroque Orchestra
  • Orchestra New England
  • and many more!

Substitute Availability

I have sixty-five years of experience as an organist and choir director. I can sub as:

  • an organist
  • organist/director
  • choir director
  • handbell director
  • handbell player 
  • piano accompanist

 

Music Notation using
Dorico Software

Back in the mid 1990s, I started using music notation software with a program called Personal Composer.  Two decades later, I upgraded to Sibelius, and in 2022 became an early user of the new Dorico program. I have used these programs for:

  • making short music inserts for church bulletins
  • creating hymn inserts
  • instrumental parts for hymns and anthems
  • larger projects 
  • transposing existing sheet music by scanning and/or importing into the notation program

Let me know if you would like me to make some of these things for you!

"I thank you for your calm and absolutely astounding knowledge of the realm of sacred music – and of the human heart."

Rev. Stephen Kendricks