Ken Cowan
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Ken Cowan is a Canadian organist. A native of Thorold, Ontario, he has toured extensively in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Organ at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. He has made numerous recordings, most on the JAV Label. Cowan is a graduate of both The Curtis Institute of Music (BM) and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (MM). He has held positions at Saint Bartholomew’s Church, St. James Episcopal Church, the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in New York City, and Saint Clement’s Church, Philadelphia. He has also been on the roster of Associate Organists for the famous Wanamaker Grand Court Organ in Philadelphia. Cowan has won many national and international competitions and has been a featured recitalist at the last three national conventions of the American Guild of Organists.
One reviewer said this:
| “ | Cowan's performance was stunning. [His] playing displayed understanding of the composer’s intentions and allowed one to hear the beauty of the various families of color on this glorious instrument. There was passion and fire in this virtuosic performance [Max Reger’s fantasia on "Wie schön leucht' uns der Morgenstern"] Cowan's careful and wonderfully sensitive musical interpretation of all the variations, and in particular, the powerful texts of the concluding verses, moved this writer to tears."[1] | ” |
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- ^ The 2004 National Convention of the AGO in Los Angeles) - The American Organist
