SOP Podcast #50 - Crista Miller On The New Music For The Organ

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #50!

Today's guest is Dr. Crista Miller, who is the Director of Music and Organist at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, Texas. She is a Committee Chair for procuring Martin Pasi's Opus 19 organ and leads a growing music and concert program at the Sacred Heart. A member of EastWest Organists, she has performed in seven countries and twenty states,

including her 2015 multi-media series "Projections" for Houston Arts Alliance and the City of Houston.

In this conversation we talk about her work leading the New Music Committee at the 2016 AGO National Convention in Houston as well as her presentation about the modal music of Tournemire and Hakim which was presented at the convention and published in 2014’s Mystic Modern: The Music, Thought and Legacy of Charles Tournemire, the Op. 19 organ by Martin Pasi, and her newest double CD recording "Bonjour and Willkommen" on Acis Productions. Make sure you'll listen until the very end of the conversation when Crista shares the most important thing she wished she knew when she first started playing the organ. I hope you will be inspired by it.

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Related link:
www.cristamiller.com
Crista Miller at EastWest Organists