Raymond Nagem is a double major in music and psychology at Yale University, where he studies with Thomas Murray. He began his studies with John Dunn at the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School and continued with Michael Kleinschmidt. As the recipient of the first American Friends of Eton College Scholarship, he spent a gap year in England, where his teacher was Alistair Sampson. For two years he was assistant organist at All Saints–Ashmont in Boston, Mass. He is currently assistant organist at Trinity Church in Southport, Conn.

Noah Wynne-Morton is a junior at the Juilliard School, where he is pursuing a bachelor of music degree in organ performance as a student of Paul Jacobs. He is the organ scholar at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Englewood, N.J. Noah began playing the organ when he was ten years old as a hobby at his local church in Winnetka, Ill. His piano teachers were Elizabeth Agard, Delores Frederickson, and Louis Playford. He has studied the organ with Kirstin Synnestvedt, Douglas Cleveland, David Higgs, and Richard Hoskins. Noah made his organ recital debut at age 13, in an AGO “Pipes Spectactular” concert (2000). Since that time, he has participated in several local AGO chapter events. Noah attended public schools in Winnetka and graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts High School. His first job was at an Episcopal church in Des Plaines, Ill., where he was the organist-choirmaster. Noah was the first-place winner in the New York City Chapter’s AGO/Quimby Regional Competitions for Young Organists.

A native of Raleigh, N.C., Andrew Yeargin is a 2007 graduate (magna cum laude) of Westminster Choir College, where he received a bachelor of music degree in organ performance. At Westminster, he studied with Matthew Lewis and Diane Meredith Belcher; he has also studied with Otto Krämer in the U.S. and Germany. Andrew studied conducting with James Jordan and Sun Min Lee, and was a member of Westminster’s Symphonic Choir and Concert Bell Choir. Prior to college, Andrew studied organ with William J. Weisser and piano with Marie E. Willett in Raleigh. An active church musician, Andrew recently served as organist-associate director of music at Cranford United Methodist Church in Cranford, N.J. He concertizes on the East Coast as both soloist and accompanist, and has played numerous times on the noonday recital series at Duke University Chapel, as well as on Pipedreams Live! A director of the handbell programs at Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary, Andrew is a graduate student at the Manhattan School of Music, where he studies with McNeil Robinson.

Jonathan Hehn is a graduate of Florida State University, where he studied organ and church music with Michael Corzine and choral conducting with Kevin Fenton. In addition to his time at Florida State, Jonathan spent a semester at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, where he studied organ, improvisation, continuo, and Gregorian chant. He was a finalist in the Fort Wayne National Organ Playing Competition (2006). Jonathan resides in Tallahassee, Fla., with his wife Kelly, and is the organist-choirmaster of the First Presbyterian Church in Havana, Fla.

Kirk M. Rich, a native of Evansville, IN, began studying piano at age four. At age twelve, he began organ study with Douglas Reed at the University of Evansville. In 2000, Kirk participated in the first video of the American Guild of Organists The Master Series, for which he played in a masterclass with the late Catherine Crozier. In 2001, he attended the Oundle International Organ Festival in the United Kingdom, after which he was invited to return and play several recitals throughout the U. K. He has played in masterclasses for such distinguished teachers and performers as Marie-Claire Alain, David Briggs, Francesco Cera, Hans-Ola Ericsson, Roberta Gary, Bernard Haas, Martin Jean, and Olivier Latry. Kirk is a student at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studies organ with James David Christie.

Adam Peithmann was born in Hebron, Nebr., where he began piano lessons at a young age. He received his first organ lessons from a member of his church at the beginning of high school, and later became a student of Diana Johnson. Adam has won the Fort Hays State Solo Competition (2002), the Lincoln AGO Chapter organ competition (2003, 2005), and the Twin Cities AGO Chapter competition (2007). In 2005, he placed second in the AGO/Quimby Region VI competition held in Colorado Springs, Colo. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with David Higgs, Adam was recently awarded a Fulbright grant to study the organ works of Buxtehude with Harald Vogel in Germany.

Brent Stamey, a native of Natchitoches, La., began organ study at age 15 with Jarrett Follette of Shreveport. A 2004 graduate of the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts, Brent is now a junior organ performance major at Baylor University, where he studies with Joyce Jones. Brent won the Central Texas AGO Chapter’s organ competi-_tion. In May, Brent was named the Presser Scholar, the highest honor given by the Baylor School of Music. In March, he was awarded first prize at the Augustana Arts/Reuter National Undergraduate Organ Competition, and played Handel’s Concerto No. 1 with the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra in Denver. He was awarded first place at the Texas Music Teachers Association Young Artists Competition and has won the hymn-playing prize at the William Hall Organ Competition three times. In 2003, Stamey played Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Monroe Louisiana Symphony as winner of its Young Artists’ Competition. He has been the winner of piano competitions and national composition competitions. This year he was accepted into the Pi Kappa Lambda music honor society. He accompanies the Baylor University Chamber Singers and is currently the principal organist at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Waco.

Marshall Cuffe, a senior at Sprague High School in Salem, Oreg., studies piano and organ with Pamela Miller. In 2005, he was chosen as an Outstanding Young Musician by Portland’s All-Classical 89.9 radio station, which sponsored Marshall in an hour-long organ concert in May 2006 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Portland. In 2006, Marshall placed first in the Oregon Symphony’s Wiscarsen Competition at Western Oregon University and performed Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with the Oregon Symphony several times in its last season. He has received seven Oregon Music Teachers National Association State Level Bach Festival medals. In 2006 and 2007, he received Bach Festival state medals in both organ and piano. He also completed the final Level 10 of the OMTA’s syllabus exams with honors. His composition, Variations on Amazing Grace, was selected to be included in an Oregon Music Teachers Association-sponsored composer competition collection. Marshall plans to pursue a career in music.

Keenan Boswell, a native of San Francisco, Calif., began piano lessons at age six. Three years later, he began organ study with Kathleen Flemming and continued lessons with Kerry Leyden. By age 15 Keenan had given performances on three continents. He has performed with the Contra Costa Children’s Chorus (Iris Lamanna, director) during its tour of the U.K., Paris, Sydney, and New Zealand. In 2005, he played a Sunday Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. He has also performed at Grace Cathedral (San Francisco) and the Crystal Cathedral (Anaheim, Calif.), as well as on NPR’s From the Top, which features exceptional young talent from across the country. Keenan’s first composition for organ and orchestra, Let the Earth Be Glad, was performed by the Oakland Youth Orchestra (Michael Morgan, conductor; Keenan Boswell, organ) in 2003. His other compositions include works for organ and piano, piano and violin, and solo piano. Keenan attends the Juilliard School, where he studies with Paul Jacobs.