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Bruce
Stevens Organ Recital, July 4, 11:45 AM BRUCE STEVENS has presented recitals across the United States and Europe including many for the annual national conventions of the Organ Historical Society and several for AGO regional conventions. After receiving degrees in music from the University of Richmond, where he was a student of Suzanne Bunting, and the University of Illinois with Jerald Hamilton, he moved to Europe, going first to Denmark on a Danish Marshall Memorial Fund Grant for a year of organ study in Copenhagen with Finn Viderø and Grethe Krogh. Later he moved to Vienna to become a student of Anton Heiller for several years. He also studied at the Royal School of Church Music near London.
Bruce Stevens was a finalist in the American Guild of Organists organ playing competition as well as in other national competitions held in Los Angeles and Fort Wayne. Active as a recording artist, he has recorded seven discs for the Raven record label, including a series of four CDs devoted to Rheinberger’s organ sonatas played on various historic American organs.
His performances have been broadcast
numerous times over the National Public Radio Network on Performance Today
and over the American Public Radio Network on Pipedreams. Presently organist of the historic Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Bruce Stevens has also served as organist and choir director at St. James's Episcopal Church and River Road Presbyterian Church in Richmond and at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville.
He is a former Dean of the Richmond Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and has served on many committees of the Guild. As a member of the Organ Historical Society he has served as chairman of the Historic Organs Recital Series, as director of the OHS European Organ Tours, and as producer of the OHS convention CD recordings. He is currently director of Historic Organ Study Tours, an organization he founded to further the study of historic organs in Europe and elsewhere.
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