The competition is open to all organists regardless of age or citizenship. First-place winners of a previous NCOI are not eligible. The NCOI occurs biennially. The competition commences with a recorded Preliminary Round in the autumn of odd years. The Semifinal and Final Rounds take place during the summer of even years, in conjunction with the AGO National Convention. Prizes: First Place - $2,000, funded by the Holtkamp Organ Company; Second Place - $1,500, funded by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders; Third Place - $750, funded by Mary Louise Herrick, AAGO, ChM. Audience prize - $1000, funded by David and Robin Arcus and McNeil Robinson. Further details are published in THE AMERICAN ORGANIST. You may also request information from National Headquarters by email, fax, mail or phone.
The five organists pictured below were selected in the January 2008 recorded preliminary round of the 2008 National Competition in Organ Improvisation. The judges for the NCOI preliminaries were Catherine Rodland, John Schwandt, and Aaron David Miller. The NCOI semifinals round will take place at the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul on Saturday, June 21, from 1:00 ñ 5:00 p.m., as part of the 2008 AGO National Convention. The final round will be held at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis on Monday, June 23, from 1 to 5 p.m.
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