J. Warren Hutton  (whutton@wolfgang.musicnet.ua.edu)
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Personal:
 
Raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, studied organ and piano with Mr. John H.
Summers, then Organist/Choirmaster of First Methodist Church.
 
Education:
 
Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance at Oberlin Conservatory of
Music with Arthur Poister and Fenner Douglass. Master of Music degree in
Organ Performance at Syracuse University with Poister. Later study with
various American and European organists.
 
Taught organ/related subjects at Peabody College and Scarritt College in
Nashville, Tennessee.
 
Professional:
 
Since 1954 I have been at The University of Alabama School of Music.
Professor of Organ, teaching Organ Performance, Service Playing, Organ
Design, Organ Literature. Alabama offers the Bachelor of Music, Master of
Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts in organ performance, and a combined
Master of Music in Organ Performance and Choral Conducting. As a part-time
job, I am Organist and Choir director at the University Presbyterian Church
of Tuscaloosa.
 
I am deeply interested and involved with teaching.  I've been at every one of
the National Organ Pedagogy Conferences sponsored by the Guild, and have been a
presenter at one of them.
 
I am Regional Councillor for Region IV of the American Guild of Organists,
and currently serve on the "Task Force for the New Organist" of the Guild.
 
Here at The University of Alabama we have a Concert Hall in our new Music
Building which has excellent acoustics and a beautiful four manual tracker
action organ by Holtkamp, the largest tracker Chick has built.  Todd Wilson
has an excellent CD out on the Delos label: "French Virtuosic Organ Music"
#DE 3123, which he recorded on this organ. Jonathan Biggers has just
finished recording a CD of all Reger on this organ.  It is called "Sleepers,
Wake!" and is on the Calcante label.  It should be available in September.
 
If any of you are close to Tuscaloosa, which is in central Alabama, please
let me know ahead of time if you would like to play the Holtkamp, and I'll
reserve time on it for you.  We also have other good organs in Tuscaloosa
which I'd be happy to show to you.