3 pm - DARYL ROBINSON, organ (NYACOP Winner Recital)

	Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist 920 N. Jackson Street Milwaukee

On Sunday afternoon, July 1, 2012, three outstanding young organists competed in the Final Round of the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance (NYACOP), held in conjunction with the AGO National Convention in Nashville, Tenn. The Final Round was hosted by Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral, Michael Velting, Canon for Music. The three finalists were Thatcher Lyman and Malcolm Matthews of Rochester, N.Y., and Daryl Robinson of Houston, Tex. The required repertoire was:

J.S. Bach: Fugue in F Major, BWV 540/2
Nicolas DeGrigny: Verbum supernum
Franz Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on BACH
Judith Weir: Ettrick Banks

Judges for the Final Round were Wilma Jensen, Sandra Soderlund, and John Chappell Stowe, aago, chm.

First Prize winner, whom we present in Milwaukee: 
Daryl Robinson
Prize: The Lilian Murtagh Memorial Prize $3,000 cash award and career development assistance from Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc. Funded by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio

A CD recording on the Pro Organo recording label, Fred Hohman, CEO

A performance during the 2014 AGO National Convention in Boston, Mass.

Daryl also won the Audience Prize:
$1,000 Provided by Martin Ott Pipe Organ Company, Inc., St. Louis, Mo.

NYACOP is a four-round competition. In April 2011, twenty applicants were accepted as official NYACOP competitors. In the anonymous recorded elimination round last October, seven competitors were chosen to advance to the Semifinal Round, held May 25, 2012, at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Of the seven semifinalists, three were selected to advance to the Final Round in Nashville. The NYACOP committee was impressed with the exceptionally high level of musicality, professionalism, and mutual support demonstrated by all of the competitors throughout the 2012 competition. Congratulations and best wishes are extended to all.