David Boe  (david_boe@qmgate.cc.oberlin.edu)
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Education:
 
Earliest organ studies were with Rupert Sircom in Minneapolis.
Received the Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree magna cum laude from St.
Olaf College and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University
earning the Music Master degree, studying organ with Arthur
Poister.  On a Fulbright grant, went on to study with Helmut Walcha
at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Frankfurt, Germany.
Returned to Europe in 1968 to study with Gustav Leonhardt.
 
Professional:
 
Since 1962,  a member of the organ faculty at the Oberlin
Conservatory. Appointed Associate Dean in 1974, I became Dean of
the Conservatory in 1976, a position I held until mid-1990, when I
returned to full-time teaching. Throughout this period I continued
to perform and teach, and since 1962 have also served in a
part-time capacity as Organist and Director of Music at First
Lutheran Church in Lorain, Ohio.  It is at this church that John
Brombaugh had the opportunity to build his first major instrument,
a two-manual organ of 28 stops, installed in 1970.
 
I have been active as a recitalist,  have recorded on the Gasparo
label, and appeared on the nationally televised program "The Wind
at One's Fingertips." On various trips to Europe, I have appeared
in concerts and on the radio, and have done some research on North
European instruments and early keyboard temperaments.
 
In the late 1980's, I served a four-year term as National President
of Pi Kappa Lambda, the national music honor society, and from 1981
until 1987 served as elected Secretary of the National Association
of Schools of Music, continuing to serve that organization as a
consultant. I have chaired music accreditation teams or served as a
consultant to the music programs at over 35 institutions. I am
currently Vice President of the American Organ Academy.  On leave
from the Oberlin Conservatory during the 1990-91 school year, I
served in the spring semester as Visiting Professor at Florida
State University in Tallahassee, and for the fall semester of the
1991-92 academic year, was a Visiting Professor at the University
of Notre Dame.
 
We enjoy at Oberlin and in the vicinity a rather remarkable
collection of instruments which you are most cordially invited to
see and hear when you pass by this way (we are only a few minutes
from the Ohio Turnpike).