William Dean Tinker

William Dean Tinker (born February 16, 1934 in St. Louis / Missouri ) is an American pianist, organist, harpsichordist and music teacher.

Tinker studied at the Juilliard School of Music , the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and the Conservatory in Amsterdam. His teachers were Leo C. Miller and Joseph Raieff (piano), Vernon de Tar , Donald Willing and Anton Heiller (organ), Bernard Wagenaar and Louis White (composition) and Margaret Mason and Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord). In 1952 he won the St. Louis Symphony Young Artists Competition . In 1959 he went on a study trip to Europe with a grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians . For the performance of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck's entire organ works , he received the Sweelinck Medal in 1962 .

In 1958, Tinker directed two television productions of Heinrich Schütz's Christmas story in Boston . Between 1971 and 1976 he gave 256 Sunday concerts on the organ of Rudolph von Beckerath of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cleveland, which were recorded for the radio. In 1981 he founded the Fort Worth Bach Players , with whom he performed the entire chamber music works, concerts and solo cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach over the course of five years . As an organist he worked a. a. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Indianapolis, the Old Stone Church in Cleveland, the Church of the Ascension in New York (as assistant to Vernon de Tar ), the Old South Church in Boston (as assistant to Carl McKinley ), the Christian the King and St. Annes Episcopal Church in Fort Worth and until 2007 at the Peter Lutheran Church in Dubuque. He taught at Indiana University , Baldwin-Wallace College , Oberlin College, and Texas Christian University .

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