Grades: 8 - 12
Date: June 23-29, 2024
The date registration will be available is February 21, 2024.
The Summer Organ Camp at the Baylor School of Music provides an exciting opportunity for talented young organists. An intensive week of study and varied musical experience is offered within the college environment of the Baylor campus. Students are housed in supervised dormitories and have the use of University practice and recreational facilities, including Baylor’s large collection of organs.
The Summer Organ Camp is open to rising 8th-12th graders. Musical activities for the week include private lessons, master classes and lecture-demonstrations with members of the Baylor organ faculty and guest organists, piano, harpsichord, service playing and organ building classes, videos of famous artists, regular practice periods on the organs on campus, and student and faculty recitals.
Cost
$650 (includes tuition, fees, dormitory, and meals)
The cost for commuting students is $460, including tuition and lunch.
Registration
Return the registration and send a letter of recommendation from your teacher prior to May 8.
Summer Organ Camp Faculty
Jillian Gardner
Jillian Gardner (Baylor MM ’17, AD ’19) is an award-winning performing organist with an international touring schedule that spans the United Kingdom, Canada, and the U.S. She is the Director of Music at First United Methodist Church in Huntsville, AL, where she serves as primary organist and oversees ensembles for adults and children. She has most recently joined the faculty at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) as an adjunct instructor of organ and has also finished a 7-year term as the Councilor for Young Organists on the American Guild of Organists National Board. In the last year of this position, she ushered a program that brought over 1,200 new young organists into the Guild. https://www.jilliangardner.com
Jens Korndörfer, D.Mus. Associate Professor of Organ
German organist Dr. Jens Korndörfer is Associate Professor of Organ at Baylor University. Praised as “a virtuoso in the grand Romantic tradition” who creates “performances that are deeply musically satisfying as well as exciting” (The American Organist), Korndörfer is regularly invited at the most prestigious venues and festivals around the world.
A top-honor graduate from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, the Oberlin Conservatory, the Musikhochschule in Bayreuth, and McGill University in Montreal, Korndörfer’s teachers include Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, James David Christie, and Ludger Lohmann. Prior to his appointment at Baylor University, he was Director of Music and Organist at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta - where he also directed a highly successful concert series -, and taught at Georgia State University. Korndörfer recently founded the National High School Organ Competition at Baylor University. https://www.jenskorndoerfer.com