HOMECOMING ORGAN RECITAL
Date: FRIDAY OCTOBER 28, 2022
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Centennial Chapel
Dr. Ring has been a professor at Olivet Nazarene University in the School of Music since 2019. He has been featured on the radio program Pipedreams and has performed at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany as well as in the Netherlands, Brazil and across the Midwest. He also recorded the album, "Fanfare for a New Century: The Organ Works of Aaron David Miller" on the 2010 Ruffatti organ in the Betty and Kenneth Hawkins Centennial Chapel at Olivet.
As an organist, Dr. Ring won the 2019 Organ Scholar Competition at the Immanuel Lutheran Church of Evanston, IL, won first place in the 2018 Young Organists Scholarship Competition from the Fox Valley American Guild of Organists (AGO), is a 2016 recipient of the E. Power Biggs Fellowship Award from the Organ Historical Society (OHS), and has been a recipient of the Kay Hotchkiss Scholarship from the Rockford AGO every year from 2016 to 2021. Dr. Ring was also a quarter finalist in the 2019 Mikael Tariverdiev International Organ Competition. He has performed in master call with such international artists as Olivier Latry, Nathan Laube, Craig Cramer, Stefan Engles and Wilma Jensen. While a student at Olivet he was also the recipient of the Walter B. Larsen Award & Naomi Larsen Scholarship, the School of Music highest honor.
Dr. Bell has served as professor of music at Olivet Nazarene University since 1997, and he is the conductor of ONU's Orpheus Choir. Other teaching responsibilities include beginning conducting; voice literature and pedagogy; 20th century American popular music; senior seminar; and sharing responsibilities conducting the annual performances of Handel's "Messiah." He came to this position after 13 years on the music faculty at Indiana Wesleyan University.
He has produced and conducted three albums of sacred music with Orpheus Choir: "A Mighty Fortress," "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" and the a cappella Christmas album, "Love Came Gently." He is the organist for College Church of the Nazarene in Bourbonnais. He is a frequent adjudicator and clinician for choral and instrumental clinics and competitions. He has performed in recitals, opera and oratorio; and is a published composer and arranger.
The Olivet Nazarene University School of Music offers comprehensive study in Composition, Education, Ministry, Performance and more. With seasoned faculty and numerous performance opportunities, every genre of music lives and thrives within the halls of the Larsen Fine Arts Center. The entire campus embraces the arts and culture with more than 500 students participating in music ensembles and chamber groups. Click here to learn more.
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