Frederick Hohman Featured in MMMH Fall Scholarship Concert

Frederick Hohman will play works by Sibelius, Bach, Mussorgsky, Widor, Vivaldi, Mulet, Franck, and Wagner.  The Fall Scholarship Recital is dedicated to the memory of Edward J. Sampson Jr., long-time President of the Board of Trustees of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall.

Frederick earned the Performer’s Certificate, Mus.B., M.M. and D.M.A. degrees while in the organ class of David Craighead at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. In 1984, he won First Prize in both the prestigious Clarence Mader and Arthur Poister competitions. This led to organ concert tours taking him throughout the USA, and to the Caribbean, Australia, the UK, and Finland, to collegiate, concert and religious venues, including appearances before regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, The Organ Historical Society, and The American Institute of Organbuilders.

Hohman founded the recording label Pro Organo in 1985 and has overseen the production and release of over 300 organ and choral music titles, including 16 releases where he is also the featured artist. In 1996, Frederick drew upon his experience in broadcasting as he produced and hosted the “Midnight Pipes” television series. Segments of this series are seen today on YouTube, where his performance of Widor’s Toccata from the Fifth Organ Symphony has tallied over three million views. www.youtube.com/midnightpipes

Acclaimed by a critic in The Diapason magazine as “one of the symphonic organ’s strongest exponents,” during the 1980s, Frederick championed a revival of the Symphonic School of organ-playing. His 1984 doctoral essay, “The Art of the Symphonic Organist,” and his 1985 CD “Lemare Affair” ignited a revival in symphonic organ literature and performance practices of the early 20th century, which led to his first organ transcription publications, as well as to several additional CD releases.

Concert organist Frederick Hohman, recognized as an award-winning composer of organ and choral music, a creator of organ transcriptions, a modern on-line educator, a musical instrument designer, and a classical music audio-video producer.