"Almost everything about Joan Lippincott`s organ recital proved first class….The organist displayed a strong architectonic flair in both programming and performance, a penchant for detail and more than ample technical facility to realize her interpretative goals." (The Los Angeles Times)
JOAN
LIPPINCOTT, organ, has been acclaimed as
one of America's outstanding organ virtuosos. She
performs extensively in the United States under
Karen McFarlane Artists and has toured throughout
Europe and Canada. She has been a featured recitalist
at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York
City, at the Spoleto USA Festival, at The American
Bach Society Biennial, at the Dublin (Ireland) International
Organ Festival, and at conventions of the American
Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society,
and the Music Teachers National Association. She
has performed on most of the prominent organs in
churches and universities throughout the United
States, including Yale, Harvard, Duke, Stanford,
Columbia, and Princeton. She has traveled widely
in Europe, studying, playing, and performing in
recital on historic and contemporary organs in Holland,
Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland,
and France.
Dr. Lippincott has been especially in demand for
Bach recitals and classes. She was recitalist at
the Alice Tully Hall Bach-Handel Tercentennial and
she has performed at Bach Festivals in Arizona,
Massachusetts (Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood), Michigan,
New York, Ohio, Oregon, and South Carolina. In 2001-2002
she performed a highly acclaimed series of eight
Bach organ concerts on outstanding organs throughout
New York City, called 'Bach in the Big Apple'.
Her many recordings on the GOTHIC label include
music of Bach, Duruflé, Mozart, Mendelssohn,
Widor, Alain, and Pinkham on major American organs.
The most recent releases are Sinfonia (Organ Concertos
and Sinfonias of J.S.Bach with instrumental ensemble)
on the Paul Fritts Organ at Princeton Theological
Seminary and J.S. Bach Preludes and Fugues recorded
at Pacific Lutheran University.
Joan Lippincott presently devotes full time to concertizing
and recording. She was Principal University Organist
at Princeton University, 1993-2000, and for many
years has been Professor of Organ at Westminster
Choir College of Rider University. At Westminster,
she was Head of the Organ Department, the largest
organ department in the world, well known for the
outstanding quality of work by students and faculty.
She directed many European organ study tours and
summer organ workshops, including the popular Organ
Week for High School Students. Dr. Lippincott has
served on summer faculties at the New England Conservatory
of Music, University of Wisconsin, the Montreat
Conference, the Evergreen Conference, and Bach Week
at Columbia College.
A graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music and
Westminster Choir College, where she was a student
of Alexander McCurdy, she also studied at Union
Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary.
She is on the Advisory Board of The American Bach
Society, an honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota,
and has received the Alumni Merit Award, the Distinguished
Merit Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from Westminster
Choir College.