Noah Smith is appointed organ scholar at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He will accompany the choirs on the organ, Schoenstein Opus 173, under the mentorship of music director Joseph Arndt. Smith is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Oklahoma pursuing degrees in organ and piano performance, studying with Adam Pajan and Jeongwon Ham.
Classical Voice of North Carolina),
Michael Delfín is a versatile performer of historical keyboard instruments and the modern piano. Michael is the recipient of the 2018 Historical Keyboard Society of North America Bechtel/Clinkscale Scholarship and 2017 Catacoustic Consort Early Music Grant. He has performed for the Historical Keyboard Society of North America and the Central California Baroque Festival and has given lectures on historical performance topics for Early Music America, HKSNA, and the Case Western Reserve University Music Department. He is artistic director of Seven Hills Baroque in Cincinnati and has taught figured bass and improvisation at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Michael has attended the American Bach Soloists Academy and the University of Michigan Early Keyboard Institute and performed in masterclasses for Richard Egarr, Joseph Gascho, Corey Jamason, Edward Parmentier, and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra.