Dedication of the Holtkamp Organ in the Lambert Recital Hall with program performed by Bryan Ashley

A native of New Jersey, Bryan obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance at Maryville College studying organ under Dr. James Bloy and piano under Dr. Robert Bonham.

His career as a concert organist was definitively launched in 1988 when he won the First International Organ Competition, Musashino-Tokyo, Japan, including the Special Prize for the best performance of a Japanese composition commissioned for the competition.

The Holtkamp Organ Company traces its lineage back over a century to 1855 when G.F. Votteler established a shop for the manufacture of organs in Cleveland, Ohio.

Included in the program will be:

The concert is free and open to the public

Join Bryan Ashley for an informative Pre-Recital Talk about “Life Lessons After Maryville College” on Friday, May 4 at 12:00 noon in the Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall of the Clayton Center for the Arts.
 Bryan Ashley graduated from Maryville College in 1981 with a bachelor of music degree in organ performance. Since then, he has been active as a recitalist, church musician and a university teacher. He has performed with several well-known Japanese orchestras and has given recitals in France, Germany, South Korea and the United States.

Thirty-one years later, he is returning to his alma mater to perform an organ concert in honor of professor emeritus Dr. James Bloy, under whom Ashley studied organ as a student.