members of the

      2011 competition jury

	Bine Katrine Byrndorf is Professor of Organ at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and President of the Jury of the Odense International Organ Competition. She studied with Michael Radulescu, Daniel Roth and William Porter, and was a prize-winner in several international competitions including Innsbruck, Brügge and Odense. In 1999/2000, she was Artist-in-Residence at the National Danish Radio and in 2007 completed a prize‑winning recording of the complete works of Dietrich Buxtehude. Her performing and teaching career has led to invitations from USA, Japan and Europe.
	Helmut Deutsch is Professor of Organ at the University of Music at Freiburg, Germany. Following studies with Paul Schneider, Andreas Rothkoph, Zsigmond Szathmáry and Xavier Darasse, he went on to win prizes in numerous international competitions. He is particularly renowned for his performances and transcriptions of the orchestral and piano repertoire which include Sibelius’s second symphony and Liszt’s Les Préludes and Dante Sonata. His concert and teaching career has taken him throughout Europe, Russia, Japan and South Korea.
	Martin Jean has risen to the highest ranks of the world’s concert organists. As the winner of two prestigious organ competitions (Grand Prix de Chartres in 1986 and the AGO Young Artists’ Competition in 1992), he has performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and been a jury member of numerous international competitions. Martin Jean is Professor of Organ at the Yale School of Music and Director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Martin Jean holds a DMA from the University of Michigan where he studied with Robert Glasgow.
	Tong-Soon Kwak is one of South Korea’s most distinguished musicians. She initially studied with her father Sang-Soo Kwak at Yonsei University before winning a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the University of Michigan with Marilyn Mason. She is now Professor of Organ, Director of Music Research and Chairman of the Church Music Department at Yonsei University in Seoul. She has performed extensively in the USA, Korea and Europe and served on numerous international juries. Tong-Soon Kwak is an Ambassador for the International Organ Festival at St Albans.
	Richard Morrison is chief music critic and the senior cultural writer on The Times, where he has been on the staff for 25 years. From 1989 to 1999 he was the newspaper’s arts editor, and he now writes a weekly column ranging widely over culture and society. Born in London, he read music at the University of Cambridge where he played the organ and trombone, and edited the university newspaper. His history of the London Symphony Orchestra was published by Faber in 2004 to mark the orchestra’s centenary.
	Daniel Roth is widely acclaimed as one of the leading French organ virtuosos. He has held several prestigious positions as both performer and teacher. He was titular organist of Sacré Coeur, a post he held until 1985 when he was appointed titular organist at St. Sulpice. A former student of the Paris Conservatoire, Daniel Roth’s teachers have included Rolande Falcilnelli, Marie-Claire Alain and Maurice Duruflé. In 1971 he won the Grand Prix de Chartres in interpretation and improvisation and went on to establish a worldwide concert career.
	Simon Preston is one of the most celebrated musicians of our time whose work has combined prestigious appointments as Organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and Organist and Master of the Choristers of Westminster Abbey with a performing career that has taken him to all parts of the globe. As a recording artist, he has won both the Edison Award and a Grand Prix de Disque. He was named International Performer of the Year by the New York Chapter of the AGO in 1987, and was appointed CBE in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

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