ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

JEREMY S. BRUNS
is the Organist and Master of Choristers at The Parish of All Saints-Ashmont in Boston, where he trains and conducts the professional All Saints' Choir of Men and Boys. Before accepting this position, he served as the Assistant Organist-Choirmaster at St. Paul's Cathedral in Buffalo, New York.

Mr. Bruns completed his B.Mus. in organ performance at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, where he studied organ with Dr. Judson Maynard and piano with Steven Glaser. He studied with David Higgs at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, earning his M.Mus. in performance and literature in 1996, and the Performer's Certificate in 1998.

Mr. Bruns has won prizes in several competitions, including the 1993 International J.S. Bach Organ Competition held at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He was one of four North American finalists chosen to compete in the 1998 Calgary International Organ Festival and Competition. Mr. Bruns was the convention artist of the 1997 Louisiana Music Teachers Association Convention and has performed numerous recitals, with engagements including St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey in London, Canterbury Cathedral, Washington National Cathedral, St. James' Cathedral in Toronto, Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis, Missouri, The Church of the Advent, Trinity Church Copley Square and Old West Church in Boston, and other venues in the United States and England. He has been featured on the nationally syndicated radio show "Pipe Dreams" and has made several television appearances.

Sept. 2002