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Trinity Episcopal Church
44 East Market St.
Bethlehem PA 18018-5989
610-867-4741

Lorenz Maycher
Lorenz Maycher is organist-choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He teaches organ and piano at Lafayette College, and is assistant director of music at DeSales University. He was formerly organist at the historic First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, for ten years. A native of Oklahoma, he has studied organ with Margaret Lindsay, Thomas Matthews, Clyde Holloway, and William Watkins, and is a graduate of Rice University. While a student at Rice, Lorenz won the Gibbons Prize in organ, placed first in the San Antonio Pipe Organ Competition, and won the Houston AGO's Mary Ellen Bond Award.

In 1989, Lorenz was a featured recitalist at the Organ Historical Society national convention held in New Orleans. He has since been invited to play for seven OHS national conventions, and was recipient of an OHS E.Power Biggs Fellowship in 1990. He has played over fifty recitals on the 1830 Appleton organ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and has appeared in recital in such places as Wichita State University, Rollins College, Irvine Auditorium (University of Pennsylvania), and Philadelphia's Lord and Taylor Department Store (on the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ).

In recent years, Lorenz has participated in several projects devoted to the music of Leo Sowerby. In 1994 he recorded an all-Sowerby disk on the 1949 Aeolian-Skinner organ at First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, Texas, for Raven Records. The following year he was invited by the Leo Sowerby Foundation to give the world premiere performances of Sowerby's recently discovered 1958 Nostalgic Poem and Heroic Poem in a Washington, D.C. concert honoring organist William Watkins. He later gave the New York premiere at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, and the Chicago premiere at Fourth Presbyterian Church. He has played three of Sowerby's five works for organ and orchestra, including the first performance in over forty years of Concert Piece in a concert with the Richmond Symphony and a performance of Classic Concerto with the Buffalo Philharmonic. In 1998, he performed Sowerby's seldom heard Sinfonia Brevis in a Baltimore AGO memorial concert to organist Rodney Hansen, to whom the work is dedicated. He has participated in Sowerby festivals in Chicago, New York, Richmond, and Worcester, Mass.

Lorenz has recently recorded a cd, to be released in the coming months on the Raven label, entitled, "The Aeolian-Skinner Sound", recorded on the 1955 Aeolian-Skinner organ at Trinity Episcopal Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

March 2004

Trinity Episcopal Church
44 East Market St.
Bethlehem PA 18018-5989
610-867-4741