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Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #67!\n\nhttp://www.organduo.lt/podcast\n\nToday's guest is Dr. James Kibbie who is Chair of the Organ Department and University Organist at the University of Michigan. He also maintains a full schedule of concert, recording, and festival engagements throughout North America and Europe, including appearances at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, Royal Festival Hall in London, Dvo\u0159ak Hall in Prague, and Lincoln Center in New York. During his month-long concert tour of the Soviet Union in 1991, Pravda hailed him as \u201ca marvelous organist, a brilliant interpreter.\u201d A frequent jury member of international organ competitions, he has himself been awarded the Grand Prix d'Interpr\xe9tation at the prestigious International Organ Competition of Chartres, France, and is also the only American to have won the International Organ Competition of the Prague Spring Festival in the former Czechoslovakia.\n\nJames Kibbie's performances have been broadcast on radio and television in the USA, Canada and Europe. His extensive discography includes \u201cMerrily on Hill,\u201d performed on the famed Skinner organ in Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, works of Dieterich Buxtehude recorded on the historic 1687 Schnitger organ of Norden, Germany, and discs of music by Bach, Franck, Alain, Tournemire, Sowande, Buck, Morrison, and contemporary Czech composers. Dr. Kibbie\u2019s \u201caudio holiday cards,\u201d recorded on the L\xe9tourneau organ in his residence and issued as free internet downloads, are a popular annual tradition.\n\nJames Kibbie is internationally renowned as an authority on the organ music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He has performed the complete cycle of Bach organ works in a series of eighteen recitals and is in constant demand as a Bach recitalist and clinician. His recent recordings of the complete Bach works on historic baroque organs in Germany have been welcomed with enthusiastic critical and audience acclaim. Thanks to generous support from Dr. Barbara Furin Sloat in honor of J. Barry Sloat, the University of Michigan is offering Dr. Kibbie\u2019s recordings of all 270 Bach works as free internet downloads at www.blockmrecords.org/bach.\n\n\u200bJames Kibbie\u2019s students perform frequently in concerts, competitions and workshops in the USA and abroad. His former students hold key positions in college teaching and church music nationally. Among the honors he has received, Dr. Kibbie is particularly proud of the James Kibbie Scholarship, endowed in perpetuity by the University of Michigan to support students majoring in organ performance and church music.\n\nIn this conversation Dr. Kibbie talks about his project to record all of Bach's organ works on historical instruments in Germany and put it online to listen and download for free.\n\nEnjoy and share your comments below.\n\u200b\nAnd don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends.\n\nThanks for caring.\n\nRelated links:\nMore information about Dr. Kibbie:\n\u200bhttp://www-personal.umich.edu/~jkibbie/biography.html\u200b\n\nThe Bach recordings are available for free download at:\nhttp://www.blockmrecords.org/bach