Lars Gjerde, organist and TEACHER
Lars Gjerde, organist and TEACHER
Lars is the Artistic Director of Encore Music Creations, LLC, based in the Sacramento area in California.
Lars gave a lecture on avant-garde organ music the international EROI Festival at the Eastman School of Music. His doctoral lecture recital on the same topic is available here. Other guest lectures include Yale University and DePauw University and the 2014 national convention of The American Guild of Organists. His research on avant-garde music was published in the Norwegian Church Music magazine in the fall of 2013.
Lars’s concert tours with Encore Music Creations have taken him to cathedrals in Bergen and Stavanger, Norway. Other destinations include Our Lady of the Angels and First Congregational Church in Los Angeles, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and St. Thomas 5th Avenue i Manhattan, and several churches and cathedrals in Maine.
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