Barbara Baird & Julia Brown, organ duo
Fantasie in D minor, Op. 87
Andante |
Adolph Friedrich Hesse 1809-1863 |
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Contrapunctus XVIII from The Art of the Fugue
Fugue in Four Voices: Rectus Inversus |
1685-1750 |
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Contrapunctus XVII
from The Art
of the Fugue |
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Fugue
in d minor
Quartetto
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Johann Christoph
Kellner 1736-1803 |
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| Prelude and Double Fugue in a minor, Op. 49 | David
Hermann Engel 1816-1877 |
Intermission
| Prelude
and Fugue in B-Flat Major
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Johann
Georg Albrechtsberger 1736-1809 |
| Organ
Fantasia for Two Players, Op. 12 |
Josef
Labor 1842-1924 |
| Fantasia,
Prayer, and Fugue | Johann
Heinrich Löffler 1833-1903 |

Baird and Brown play varied works from Germany, Italy, England, Brazil, and the United States including newly composed works for the Baird/Brown Duo. Their recent programs have received standing ovations. A CD recording of their work was released in July 2004, titled “Organ Works for Two”.
Dr. Barbara Baird has been a member of the University of Oregon music faculty since 1989, teaching organ and harpsichord. She is Director of Music Ministries at First Congregational Church, Eugene, Oregon. An active recitalist since 1971, Baird has performed throughout the United States as well as Europe and Australia. A frequent adjudicator and clinician, she regularly conducts workshops and master classes for keyboardists. Dr. Baird has been a presenter and recitalist at both national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists, and for the Organ Historical Society. Baird currently has three CDs available.
Dr. Julia Brown received her M. M. and D. M. A. from Northwestern University, in the class of Wolfgang Rubsam. She has served as president of the Brazilian Association of Organists, and helped organize the Fifth Convention of Latin American Organists, the 3rd Festival of Sacred Music in Sao Paulo, and began a concert series on the historic Cavaillé-Coll organ in Campinas Cathedral. She has recorded several CDs, including works of Buxtehude and the complete works of Scheidemann (currently in progress) on the Naxos label. She has appeared in concert in North and South America and in Europe. She has performed for American Guild of Organists Regional Convention, Latin American Organist Conventions, the International Organ Festival in Uruguay and the International Festival in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, as well as on National Public Radio (U.S.). She is presently the Director of Music at First United Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon.