Randall Harlow
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A native of California, Randall Harlow holds a Bachelor of Music and Performer Diploma in organ performance from Indiana University and the Master of Music degree from Emory University in Atlanta. His principle teachers have included Christopher Young and Timothy Albrecht. He is currently finishing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, under the guidance of Hans Davidsson. Mr. Harlow has also attended numerous international summer organ academies in Canada, Sweden, and England. International performances include recitals at major cathedrals in England, the Festival of Organ and Chamber Music in Sochi, Russia, and a recent concert tour of Greenland.
As a performer, Mr. Harlow maintains an intense focus on contemporary music and is currently coordinating several major international commissioning consortiums. His numerous World and North American premieres include compositions by Stephen Ingham, John Anthony Lennon, Ron Nagorcka, Sven-David Sandstršm, Kaikhosru Sorabji, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, among others. Also an avid performer with orchestra, Randall has performed under the batons on Carl St. Clair, John Poole, Imre Paulo, and Richard Prior, including the North American premieres of organ concertos by Petr Eben, Tilo Medek, and Giles Swayne. Mr. Harlow is also a leading pioneer in promoting electroacoustic composition for the organ, having recently premiered two groundbreaking works for organ with live-electronic processing by Steve Everett and RenŽ Uijlenhoet. Recent research projects include a compendium of organ music by Japanese composers and the first comprehensive documentation and study of the pipe organ culture of Greenland, with an article forthcoming in The American Organist. A paper presented at the Symposium of the 2009 Gšteborg International Organ Academy explored the future of organ haptics research in the context of conceptual and linguistic performance models and future organ building innovations. His forthcoming doctoral thesis focuses on recent experimental organ design, with a prospectus for new design dimensions relevant to 21st Century compositional aesthetics. |
Last updated September 7, 2009.