Colin MacKnight, Daniel Minnick, Andrew Morris
The Fort Wayne First Presbyterian Church National Organ Playing Competition was to be held on March 21, 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the final round of the competition was initially postponed and ultimately cancelled. Three finalists were selected and the church has honored each of them with the distinction of being a 2020 finalist and an award to each of a third of the total prize money.
The three finalists were:
Andrew Morris, a master’s degree candidate at the University of Kansas studying with James Higdon;
Colin MacKnight, associate organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, Long Island, New York, and a C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at The Julliard School, New York City, studying with Paul Jacobs (and a member of