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Janette Fishell, organ; featuring members of the Compline Choir; remarks by Jesse Eschbach
Organ
Location: Auer Hall - 9-12-2026 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm (America/New_York) (1 hour 30 minutes)

Repertoire Gigout: 'Prélude – Choral et allegro' from "Dix pièces" (1890)Tournemire/Duruflé: Selections from "Cinq improvisations, Op. posth."Duruflé: Scherzo, Op. 2 (1924)Duruflé: Prélude, adagio et choral varié sur le thème du "Veni creator," Op. 4 (1930)About the ArtistJanette Fishell is professor of organ at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she teaches applied organ and organ pedagogy. A graduate of Indiana University and Northwestern University, she is a recitalist and teacher of international standing. Her students have distinguished themselves in academia, concerts and as prizewinners in competitions throughout the United States and Europe and successfully serve in churches and on university faculties throughout the United States and Asia. A regular performer in many of the world's greatest concert venues, published author of numerous articles and a book on service playing published by Abingdon Press, a composer whose choral and organ music is published by Morning Star Music, St. James Press, and Wayne Leupold Editions, and recording artist, she is widely recognized as a leading authority on the organ music of Czech composer Petr Eben, the subject of her doctoral dissertation and the first study of his organ works in English. She has begun a decade-long cycle in which she will record Eben's complete organ works with a companion video series entitled Velvet Revolution. In addition to a multi-year performance project in which she performed the complete organ works of J. S. Bach, her recording of Beethoven's organ works was recently released by NAXOS as part of their Beethoven opera omnia collection. Active as a church musician for many decades, she has held two appointments as interim organist at Christ Church (Episcopal) Cathedral, Indianapolis, and was organist/choirmaster at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Greenville, North Carolina and The Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis. She was named Keyboard Arts Inc. Young Organist of the Year while an undergraduate, held a distinguished professorship at the East Carolina University School of Music, and received both the 2012 Oswald Gleason Ragatz Distinguished Organist Alumni Award and 2014 Paul Creston Award in recognition of contributions to sacred music. In 2020 she was presented the Indiana University Bicentennial Medal in recognition of distinguished and distinctive service to the university.

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