On this album, David Heller plays an eclectic program of organ literature upon the Opus 35 Kegg pipe organ at Texas A & M International University in Laredo, Texas. David Heller has risen to prominence as an outstanding organist and pedagogue in the United States. The American Organist has described him as “an eloquent performer,” and his playing as “an excellent demonstration of outstanding music making on a contemporary American organ.” He holds degrees from Lawrence University and the Eastman School of Music, which awarded him the Performer’s Certificate in Organ. His teachers have included Miriam Clapp Duncan and Russell Saunders in organ. Colin Tilney and Lisa Goode Crawford in harpsichord, and Gerre Hancock in improvisation. He has continued his post-doctoral study with David Craighead.
