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Janette Fishell

• Professor, Department of Organ

Education:

• B.M. in Organ Performance, Indiana University, 1981
• M.M. in Organ Performance, Indiana University, 1982
• D.M. in Organ Performance, Northwestern University, 1988

Background:

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Janette Fishell holds degrees in organ performance from the IU Jacobs School of Music and Northwestern University. Her teachers include Wilma Jensen, Wolfgang Rübsam, Richard Enright, Anita Werling, Robert Byrd and Clyde Holloway, with further coaching on Baroque and German Romantic repertoire with Ludger Lohmann. Named Young Organist of the Year by Keyboard Arts Inc. while still an undergraduate, Fishell is a recitalist and teacher of international standing. She has performed in many of the world's greatest concert venues, including Suntory Hall, Tokyo; King's College, Cambridge; Berlin's Schauspielhaus; the Liszt Academy, Budapest; and the Prague Spring Festival, and has been a featured recitalist and lecturer at five national conventions and five regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists (AGO). Her solo recitals for the 2006 national convention of the AGO in Chicago were critically acclaimed as "flawless" and a convention highlight.

Fishell is founder and artistic director of the East Carolina Religious Arts Festival, now in its 12th year, and is director of music/principal organist at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Greenville, N.C., where she oversees a full schedule of choral services.

Most recent and upcoming engagements include multiple concert tours of Asia and Europe, including recitals at the cathedrals of Lausanne, Switzerland; York Minster; Bordeaux, and Dijon, France; Smetana Hall, Prague; Esplanade Theater, Singapore; Dewan Philharmonic Petronis Concert Hall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and on the C.B. Fisk, Opus 110 at Minato Mirai Concert Hall, Yokohama, Japan. In the United States, she plays a full schedule of recitals under the management of Karen McFarlane Artists.

Her students have distinguished themselves in academia and the performance stage, including first place honors in the AGO Competition for Young Organists, the MTNA National Collegiate Organ Competition and at the Oundle International Summer School for Young Organists. Her former students successfully serve in churches and on university faculties throughout the U.S. and Asia.

The author of numerous articles and a book on service playing published by Abingdon Press, she is widely recognized as a leading authority on the organ music of Czech composer Petr Eben. Her doctoral dissertation, The Organ Works of Petr Eben, was the first English language dissertation devoted to the contemporary Czech composer's organ works.

Her numerous compact disc recordings include performances of the music of Marcel Dupré, Petr Eben and J. S. Bach, as well as duet literature performed with her husband, British organist Colin Andrews. Pas de Dieu: Music Sublime and Spirited, a recording of French Romantic repertoire and the world premiere of Frank Ferko's Livre d'Orgue, was released by Loft Recordings in July 2006, the premiere recording on C. B. Fisk, Opus 126.

She has been featured in live radio broadcasts worldwide, including live recital broadcasts for the BBC from St. Marylebone Church, London; NHK, Tokyo; and Czech Radio. A frequent adjudicator, she has been tutor and artist three times at the Oundle International School for Young Organists and was a judge for the recorded round of the 2000 National Competition for Young Artists sponsored by the American Guild of Organists. She served as chair of the NYACOP committee from 2004 to 2006.