Frederick Hohman, from South Bend, to perform Valentine's Day organ recital

Organ and Hymn Sing Sunday Series: Frederick Hohman, organ
Date and time: Sunday, Feb. 14 at 4 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Web site: www.frederickhohman.net
Cost: $7 adults, $5 seniors/students, available at the door only one hour before the recital. Free for GC students with ID.

 [Note: Frederick Hohman is performing in place of originally-scheduled organist Craig Cramer, who withdrew from performing for personal reasons. Please update calendars.]

GOSHEN, Ind. – Organist, composer and music producer Frederick Hohman, of South Bend, will perform a Valentine's Day organ recital on the Opus 41 pipe organ on Sunday, Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. in the Goshen College Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall. This recital is part of the 2009-2010 Organ and Hymn Sing Sunday Series.

Hohman will perform works by Robert Schumann to commemorate the 200^th anniversary of the composer's birth, as well as works selected to highlight the Valentine's Day theme.

Hohman is best known as a concert organist, but also as a sought-after audio producer/engineer, as the producer/host of an organ-music television series, and most recently, as a composer. He earned the Performer's Certificate, Mus.B., M.M. and D.M.A. degrees while in the organ class of David Craighead at the Eastman School of Music. In 1984, he won first prize in both the Mader and Poister national organ-playing competitions. His original compositions and organ transcriptions are published by Wayne Leupold Editions and by Zarex Scores. Although his 1990 doctoral essay "The Art of the Symphonic Organist" and his many CD recordings of music by Edwin Lemare have cast him as a symphonic organist, he performs the gamut of organ literature. His concert tours have taken him throughout the United States, the Caribbean and Australia, and to the United Kingdom and Finland. His music studio and audio/video facility, Zarex HD, is located in South Bend, Ind.

Tickets for the recital will be $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students. They will only be available at the door one hour before the recital. GC students are free with ID.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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