Members of the 2007 Competitions Jury.

David Titterington

David Titterington was Organ Scholar at Pembroke College, Oxford and continued his studies in Paris with Marie-Claire Alain and Susan Landale at the Conservatoire at Rueil-Malmaison, where he won a unanimous Premier Prix. In 1996 he was appointed Head of Organ Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London and since 1997 he has been Visiting Professor of Organ at the Liszt Academy, Budapest. For the past ten years he has given annual masterclasses at the Dartington International Summer School. He has served on many international juries including the Grand Prix de Chartres, Prix André Marchal, BBC’s Young Musician of the Year, the Grand Prix Bach de Lausanne Competition, and 6th London International Piano Competition.  In 1992, he was Artistic Director and Chairman of the Jury of the European Organ Festival, and in 2002 was Artistic Director of the festival Splendour of the Spanish Baroque. In recent years, he has received several awards and honours, including Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists in 1999, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Liszt Ferenc State University, Budapest in 2000. He has premiered many significant works, in particular Diana Burrell’s 1990 BBC Proms Commission “Arched Forms with Bells”, Olivier Messiaen’s “Livre du Saint Sacrement”  (New Zealand premiere) and Hans Werner Henze’s “Symphony No.9”. In addition to CDs of works by Olivier Messiaen, Petr Eben and Johann Ernst Eberlin, David Titterington has recorded numerous broadcasts for radio and television worldwide.

Ludger Lohmann studied studied music and musicology at the Musikhochschule and University of Cologne, and organ with Marie-Claire Alain, Anton Heiller and Wolfgang Stockmeier. He has won several international organ competitions, principally the competition of the ARD (Association of German Broadcasting Corporation) Munich in 1979 and the Grand Prix de Chartres in 1982. Since 1983 he has been professor of organ at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, combining this with the post of organist at St. Eberhard Catholic Cathedral, Stuttgart. In 1989 he was guest professor at Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, USA and is also senior researcher in the Göteborg OrganArt Center at the University of Göteborg. He has toured throughout Europe, Northern and Southern America, Japan and Korea and his recordings range through music from the 16th to the 20th century.  He has been a jury member at many international competitions

Lynne Davis graduated with honours from the University of Michigan and went to France to study with Marie-Claire Alain.  While there she earned a diploma under Jean Langlais at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, then a diploma from the Ecole César Franck under Edouard Souberbielle.  In 1975 she won First Prize in the Interpretation Competition at St Albans. 

 Further studies followed with Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé while she fulfilled her duties as titular organist at the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Clamart, near Paris.  She was later appointed titular organist of the 1868 Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Church of St Pierre in Dreux and served as professor of organ at the Conservatoire de Musique in Clarmart.  She is a noted teacher and the first American to earn the coveted French ‘Certificat d’Aptitude de Professeur d’Orgue’.  Her late husband, Pierre Firmin-Didot, was founder and president of Chartres International Organ Competition and together they played a major part in the French organ music scene.  She has recorded for radio and CD, performed extensively and been a member of many international competition juries.  She was appointed Professor of Organ at the Conservatoire de Caen in 1997.

 

Paul Jacobs came to international attention as a concert organist in 2000 when he twice performed the complete organ works of J.S. Bach in 14 consecutive evenings in New York City and Philadelphia. In 2002, he performed the complete organ works of Messiaen in a series of nine-hour, one-day marathons in six American cities.

He is Chairman of the organ department at New York's prestigious Juilliard School at the Lincoln Center, and  was appointed to the Juilliard faculty in 2003 at the age of 25, making him one of the youngest faculty appointments in the school's history.

Martin Baker has, since February 2000, been Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral. This follows eight years at Westminster Abbey, firstly as Sub-Organist, and subsequently as Acting Organist and Master of the Choristers. Born in Manchester in 1967 and educated at Chetham’s School of Music and Downing College, Cambridge, Martin Baker held positions at London’s Westminster and St Paul’s Cathedrals, before being appointed to Westminster Abbey at the age of 24. His performances on broadcasts and recordings with the Abbey Choir have received wide critical acclaim. He was organist for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, playing to the largest live audience ever. He has toured with the Abbey Choir in France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Norway, Poland and the USA. As a soloist, he is much in demand all over the world, playing frequently in the United States. His playing is renowned for its verve and spontaneity, as recently described in The Independent, which said: ‘He is fiery, dynamic and above all, a "live" player.’ Martin Baker has become known particularly for his skill in improvisation. He was the winner of the First prize for Improvisation at the St Albans Competition in 1997.

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