Paul T. Barte  <barte@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
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Dr. Paul Barte serves as Assistant Professor of Music and
University Organist at the Ohio University School of Music. He
teaches organ and harpsichord, early keyboard literature, and music
history classes.
 
From 1990-1997, Barte was on the music faculty of Idaho State
University in Pocatello, where he taught music history, class
piano, and applied organ, piano and harpsichord. He is a Minnesota
native and earned his bachelor's degree from the University of
Minnesota where he was a student of Heinrich Fleischer and Dean
Billmeyer. Studying with George Ritchie, he completed a master's
degree at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln in 1987. He began
doctoral studies in organ performance at the Eastman School of
Music as a student of Russell Saunders in 1987. He graduated with a
Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman in 1995, having
completed a dissertation on the keyboard manuscripts of Johann
Christoph Bach (1673-1727) of Gehren--a second cousin of J. S.
Bach. The dissertation was written under the supervision of
Buxtehude scholar Kerala Snyder.
 
As a church musician he has held positions in various denominations
in Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, and Idaho. In addition to his
position at Ohio University, he currently serves as organist for
the First United Methodist Church in Athens. He is a past dean of
the Eastern Idaho Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.