On Friday, May 5, at 7 p.m., concert organist, Raúl Prieto Ramírez, will perform at Shryock Auditorium at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.
Stephen Price is appointed the inaugural Paul B. Fritts Faculty Fellow and artist-in-residence in organ performance for the University of Washington School of Music, Seattle, effective September. A native of Buffalo, New York, he leaves Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, where he has taught organ, church music, and music theory since 2018. Price’s appointment is made possible by the organbuilder Paul B.
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.