John Grew

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John Grew (born April 30, 1940 in Glenholme , Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian organist, harpsichordist and music teacher.

Grew studied piano and organ at Mount Allison University and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His teachers included Maitland Farmer , Marilyn Mason , Kenneth Gilbert , Marie-Claire Alain and Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini . In 1970 he won first prize at the International Organ Competition in Geneva.

Between 1966 and 1973 Grew taught at various universities in the United States and Canada and was organist at churches in New Brunswick, Ontario and the Queen Mary Road United Church in Montreal. In 1973 he became a professor at McGill University , where he was Dean of the Faculty of Music from 1991 to 1996.

In 1981 he organized the symposium The Organ in Our Time at McGill University with Donald Mackey , to which 400 participants came from Canada, the USA and Europe. In 1985 he founded Musique Royale , a summer festival of early music, of which he was artistic director.

As a concert organist, Grew made recordings for radio broadcasts in Canada, Belgium, France and Germany and performed as a soloist with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra , the Alberta Baroque Ensemble and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra . For ATMA Classique and McGill Records he recorded works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Dietrich Buxtehude , Nicolas de Grigny , Bengt Hambraeus and Charles-Marie Widor as well as an album with Christmas music by Louis-Claude Daquin , Jean-François Dandrieu and Nicolas Lebègue .

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