Embodiment of Expression: Healthy Approaches to Making Music at the Keyboard
U-M ORGAN SYMPOSIUM – October 4-5, 2026
The Department of Organ at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance will host its annual Organ Conference on Sunday, October 4 – Monday, October 5, 2026.
Please join us October 4-5 for presentations and performances, including:
- Melissa Plamann, organist, performance coach, and author of Unnerved: the Performer’s Guide to Managing Anxiety
- Barbara Lister-Sink, creator of the critically acclaimed DVD on piano technique, Freeing the Caged Bird: Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventive Piano Technique
- Bruce Edwards and Allie Heckman, Michigan Medicine audiologists
- Lexie Muir-Pappas, Michigan Medicine occupational therapist
Plus…
- A faculty organ concert with Nicole Keller, Caroline Robinson, and Joseph Gascho at Hill Auditorium
- A student organ recital at Hill Auditorium
- A student carillon recital at Lurie Tower
Registration Link coming soon!
Past Conferences Archive
- 2025: Ludus Chronalis: Time, Cadence, and Temporality in Keyboard Music and Sacred Spaces
- 2024: Great Lakes Regional Carillon Gathering
- 2023: Time Play: Inventing Future Sounds and Scholarship in the Historical Keyboard Realm
- 2022: Our Own “Clavierübung”: Past, Present and Future in American Keyboard Practice
- 2021: Passions and Visions
- 2020: Creative Collaborations in a Time of Change
- 2019: Building Bach: His Foundations & Futures
- 2018: Trailblazers: Women’s Impact on Organ, Harpsichord, Carillon, and Sacred Music