David von Behren, Organist

Sunday, March 23, 2025 - 3:00 p.m.

In Collaboration with The Lincoln Organ Showcase

Dr. David von Behren is the Assistant University Organist and Choirmaster of the Memorial Church at Harvard University. He recently graduated with his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Boston University College of Fine Arts. He earned his Master of Music degree at Yale University’s School of Music/Institute of Sacred Music, and is also a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he became the first organist to receive the Cleveland Institute of Music’s prestigious Darius Milhaud Award, given each year to a student “who displays qualities of unusual talent and creativity, sensitivity, expressiveness, strong love for and dedication to the musical arts, outstanding musical accomplishment, and evidence of academic excellence.”

A native of Falls City, Nebraska, David actively advocates for introducing and exciting younger audiences about classical music.

"...an artist whose sensibilities are ideally suited to the instrument’s capacity for alternating brilliance with introspection." (review of album, French Flourishes from First-Plymouth (2021)

-Joseph Newsome, Voix de Arts