Advanced Academy

T H E   T U T O R S

faculty led by

David Sanger (UK)
One of the world’s most highly regarded concert organists • over 20 acclaimed CDs • teacher of organ at Oxford and Cambridge Universities • Visting Tutor in Organ at RNCM • mentor to many winners of international organ competitions with encyclopaedic knowledge • Leads the faculty at AA

Kevin Bowyer (UK)
Foremost interpreter of the most ‘impossible’ contemporary scores, with massive repertoire across the centuries • Glasgow University Organist • 100 solo CDs (including complete Bach) • first prize in five international competitions • in 2003, played in public the complete Symphonies of Widor and Vierne, plus the complete organ works of Messiaen in three concerts over two days • will highlight Messiaen at AA • accessible, friendly, entertaining!

Reitze Smits (Netherlands)
Professor of organ and improvisation at Utrecht (Holland) and Leuven (Belgium) Conservatoires • prizewinner at Toulouse and Bruges competitions; faculty professor at international Haarlem and Brno academies • acclaimed interpreter of baroque literature, as organist and director of Concerto Strumentale with highlypraised CDs • an incisive and stimulating teacher