Dennis Janzer is a
composer and organist residing in
Memhis, TN. His many published compositions are regularly used in
concert and worship services throughout the world. Newly commissioned
works and other original compositions are featured in premiere
performances on a regular basis.
PERFORMANCES:
Dennis has performed on numorous concerts sponsored by the American Guild of
Organists, churches and universities. Dennis premiered his
South ofthe Border
organ demonstrator composition for narrator and organ at the Irish and
Cultural Heritage Center of Wisconsin. The work is published by Leupold
Editions, as are most of his organ compositions. Dennis was Organ
Curator for the Irish Cultural Heritage Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
and returns to present concerts as a featured soloist on their pipe
organ. He performed at the Organ Historical Society's 40th Annual
National Convention playing original compositions. His organ music and
arrangements are included in numerous teaching volumes, and are used at
the American Guild of Organists' "Pipe Organ Encounters," an organists'
out-reach program held annually throughout the US.
HONORS and AWARDS:
A
recipient of annual ASCAP awards, (American Society of Composers), his
many published organ, choral, and instrumental compositions are performed at churches and concert venues. Symphonic compositions have won awards and been commissioned and performed by the
Milwaukee and Waukesha Symphony Orchestras. His composition Duologue
for trumpet and organ won the First Place Award of the International
Trumpet Guild's Composition Contest. A commissioned brass and organ
composition, La Fete
Triomphale
, was premiered
with the Milwaukee Symphony at the rededication of the Basilica of St.
Josaphat, Milwaukee, WI. (Both available from LEUPOLD ED.)
His first organ concerto was premiered with the symphony from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee under the direction of Margery Deutsch:
Music
of our Sphere, where Dennis taught from 1990-2000. Dr. Janzer has since been adjunct faculty for the University of Miami and Florida International University.
EDUCATION
Doctor
of Musical Arts
-
Composition, University of Miami
Master
of Music
-
Theory and Composition, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Bachelor of Fine
Arts
- Music Theory and Composition, University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Master of Science
-
Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Science
- Biology, Marquette University, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
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