Organist to give Faculty Artist Recital

Wichita State University’s eminent organist, Lynne Davis, will give a Faculty Artist Recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, in Wiedemann Recital Hall. She will perform French organ music by Jean Langlais, Nicolas de Grigny, Marcel Dupre and Cesar Franck.

In a collegial turnabout, Davis invited WSU percussion director Gerald Scholl to share her stage. The pair will collaborate again on William Bolcom’s fearsome “Black Host,” which they performed together for Scholl’s faculty recital in January.

Davis, who holds the Ann and Dennis Ross Endowed Faculty of Distinction in Organ at Wichita State, studied with Robert Clark at the University of Michigan. After graduating, she went to France to study with Marie-Claire Alain.

She also studied with Jean Langlais, Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Durufle, Edouard Souberbielle and other great European master organists.

For more than 30 years, Davis lived in France and played a major part in the French organ music scene. She received the “Certificat d’Aptitude de Professeur d’Orgue” from the French government and served as organ professor at the Conservatory of Music in Clamart, near Paris, and at the French National Regional Conservatory in Caen, France.

Today, she is a sought-after soloist and an acknowledged authority in French organ repertoire who gives frequent concerts, masterclasses and lectures about its literature and history.

For a more complete bio, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?859.

Davis’ most recent CD is “Lynne Davis at the Marcussen organ in Wiedemann Hall,” released in December 2010. Proceeds from the sale of this recording will go to scholarships for the organ program at WSU.