Contributing Organists
Drs. Barbara Baird & Julia Brown, United States
Dr. Barbara Baird has been a member of the University of Oregon music faculty since 1989, teaching organ and harpsichord. She is Director of Music Ministries at First Congregational Church, Eugene, Oregon. An active recitalist since 1971, Dr. Baird has performed throughout the United States as well as Europe and Australia. A frequent adjudicator and clinician, she regularly conducts workshops and master classes for keyboardists. Baird has been a presenter and recitalist at both national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists, and for the Organ Historical Society. Dr. Baird currently has three CDs available.
Dr. Julia Brown received her MM and DMA from Northwestern University, in the class of Wolfgang Rubsam. She has served as president of the Brazilian Association of Organists, and helped organize the 5th Convention of Latin American Organists, the 3rd Festival of Sacred Music in Sao Paulo, and began a concert series on the historic Cavaillé-Coll organ in Campinas Cathedral. She has recorded several CDs, including works of Buxtehude, and the complete works of Scheidemann (currently in progress) on the Naxos label. She has appeared in concert in North and South America and in Europe. She has performed for American Guild of Organists Regional Convention, Latin American Organist Conventions, the International Organ Festival in Uruguay and the International Festival in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, as well as on National Public Radio (U.S.). Dr. Brown is presently the Director of Music at First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon.