Category: CarillonDocs

Andrea McCrady

Andrea McCrady

Canada’s dominion carilloneur says her students practise in the Peace Tower and their mistakes are broadcast to Parliament Hill. Andrea McCrady has been playing the bell instrument since 1971. (Oct. 13, 2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU4LPFSA6as Dr. Andrea McCrady was appointed Dominion Carillonneur of the Peace Tower Carillon in 2008. She began playing the carillon in 1971 at Trinity College, Hartford, CT (B.A., 1975). While in Europe on a post-graduate fellowship, she studied Read more [...]
Gunther Strothmann

Gunther Strothmann

Dr. Gunther Strothmann worked as a doctor in Kiel until the end of 2006. After graduating from high school in Bremen, he took piano, organ, improvisation, and composition lessons from Ernst Hörbe (1921–2012), among others. After studying medicine in Kiel, he began his musical activities as a performing organist. In 1977, he founded the Melsdorf Symphony Orchestra, an amateur ensemble that has since grown to more than 80 players as a project orchestra. In 1999, Strothmann founded the Klassikensemble Read more [...]