The BYU Organ Online Training Sessions for Beyond the Basics topics have been scheduled for the coming season. These webinars are free of chargeand available to pianists and organists in any location!
The presentations will offer a pre-recorded video from 7:00-8:00 pm Mountain Time, with interactive chat with the instructor during the video, followed by a live Question & Answer session until 8:30 pm Mountain Time. Recordings of each class will be available to view for one month following the live presentation.
Click above for the Entry-level and Music Theory topics.
We hope you will attend!
For more information and registration, click on each topic below.
Our BYU Organ Online Training Sessions for Beyond the Basics topics for the 2022-23 season have concluded. We plan to restart the series starting in October, 2023. Please check back here for the new schedule in September. All events are free of charge and available to pianists and organists in any location!
Presentations offer a pre-recorded video with interactive chat with the instructor, followed by a live Question and Answer session.. Recordings of each class are available to view for one month following the live presentation.
The classes below are from our 2022-23 series that has finished.
Organists will often meet pianists or even non-keyboardists who would like to learn about the organ. This session will introduce several approaches and resources that can assist in instructing and motivating these valuable emerging organists.
The recording of this class will be available through June 16.
This session will explore some of the possibilities for preludes and postludes that might be appropriate for organists in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Music of all levels will be included – from easy to advanced.
The recording of this class will be available through June 16.
The French Romantic organ tradition features some of the most beautiful and exciting music in the organ repertoire. This session will explore the organs and registrations characteristic of that tradition, and how we might approximate those sounds on our modern American organs.
The recording of this class will be available through June 16.
This session deals with refining our skills and musical sensitivities in order to accompany a congregation with creative hymn playing techniques and an awareness of textual and musical phrases.
The recording of this class will be available through June 16.
A native of San Francisco, Elizabeth Forsyth received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in organ performance from BYU. Active in church music for almost 50 years, she has served Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian, and LDS congregations as both organist and director of music. Currently, she is the organist at First Congregational Church, Berkeley. She has served on the executive boards of both the San Francisco and Philadelphia chapters of the American Guild of Organists and will serve as one of four program chairs for the AGO National Convention in 2024.
As a recitalist, Ms. Forsyth has performed throughout the Bay Area, Utah, Idaho, and Pennsylvania. Recent collaborations with performing groups have included the First Church Festival Chorus, Chora Nova, the Young People’s Symphony Orchestra, the Folsom Lake Symphony, and the Stockton Symphony. Elizabeth teaches both piano and organ at her home in Orinda, CA, where she takes special delight in introducing her teenage piano students to the organ. She is the proud mother of four sons, and has ten grandchildren.