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Keyboard

Through applied lessons, studio classes, performance classes, departmental recitals and degree recitals, keyboard majors hone build critical skills to develop their technique, repertoire and interpretation. Advanced level keyboard skills, pedagogy and literature courses complete the specialized preparation needed to prepare majors for professional careers.

In addition to majors, the Keyboard Area also invites non-majors of all levels to study. Beginning classes build knowledge of the instrument and reading at the grand staff from the fundamentals onward. Intermediate classes welcome students from a wide variety of abilities, from just beyond beginning to early advanced. This course is especially helpful for students who studied piano in the past and are newly returning to it. Finally, advanced keyboard students may study with faculty in applied lessons if studio space is available. All students interested in applied lessons must audition at the beginning of the semester of study.

Keyboard Area Faculty

• Allison Keep, piano
• David Keep, piano and area head
• Lora Kolean, piano
• Huw Lewis, organ and harpsichord
• Linda Strouf, keyboard skills and class piano

Keyboard student activities and accomplishments

On campus, Hope鈥檚 keyboard students perform regularly as soloists, accompanists, chamber musicians and ensemble members while on campus. Students spend time practicing for these performances in the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts, which has a second-story practice suite that makes regular practice possible. Lessons with faculty are given once a week, as well as studio classes, where students perform their works in progress and listen to others play as well. Opportunities for solo performance include the annual Musical Showcase and Concerto & Aria competitions, degree recitals and performances at 91桃色破解版鈥檚 Christmas Vespers. Keyboard students have also conducted with faculty members focused on the intersections of performance with music analysis, expression and technology. 

Off campus, Hope鈥檚 keyboard students perform in many different capacities. These include solo competitions at regional and state levels, employment at churches throughout western Michigan and accompaniment for singers, instrumentalists, dancers and musical theater productions. Service to the community is a significant priority for off-campus performances, and Hope鈥檚 keyboard students are regularly featured in recitals at retirement communities throughout the area. Keyboard students have performed as part of research projects with faculty at state conferences. Organ students have regularly traveled to Europe to explore some of the finest historical instruments on the Organ Study Tours.

After graduation, Hope鈥檚 keyboard students begin professional careers in music. Graduates have taught at community music schools, built their own private studios, performed as freelance collaborative and chamber musicians, secured music ministry positions at churches and cathedrals, and have been accepted to graduate programs at prestigious institutions, including the University of Michigan, the Eastman School of Music and Cambridge University.

Recent keyboard guest artists 

Hope has a long history of inviting world-class guest musicians to our campus. Keyboard specialists will often give masterclasses for students as part of their visits. Recent guests include: 

• Johann Vexo, organ
• Damin Spriitzer, organ
• Daniel Maltz, fortepiano
• Janice Carissa, piano 
• Daniel Tacke, harpsichord
• Olivier Latry, organ
• Brad Mehldau, piano 
• Busch Piano Trio

Keyboard Area Instruments

Our instruments are among the finest of their kind. Read about them below or (even better) listen to them yourself. Visit us!

Steinway Model D Concert Grand

The Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts houses three Steinway Model D 9'0" Concert Grand Pianos. These instruments are regularly played in studio classes, recitals and guest performances. Students have access to beautifully maintained instruments throughout the building, many of which are Steinways. 

Steinway Model B Spirio Piano

This 6'11" grand is a high-resolution player piano, capable of live performance capture and playback. This instrument features over 20 grey-scale optical sensors mounted behind its keyboard. These can capture and reproduce full performances in great detail. The Spirio library contains thousands of recorded performances by Steinway artists, making this a unique teaching tool. Its unique abilities have been the subject of recent faculty-student collaborative summer research projects, focusing on the intersections of artistic expression and technology.

R. Kingston Concert Harpsichord

Dedicated in September 2006 by the internationally acclaimed Dr. Edward Parmentier, this instrument was built specifically for Hope by Richard Kingston of North Carolina, who has produced more than 300 instruments and in 1991 received the Spivey Award for Excellence in Instrument Building. This was the last harpsichord to be crafted by Kingston.

E.M. Skinner Chancel Organ

Built by the E. M. Skinner Organ Company of Boston, Massachusetts.

The main organ in the front of Dimnent Chapel was installed in 1929. It contains 48 ranks of pipes making a total of 2,932 pipes in all. These are distributed over six divisions that are controlled by a console with four manuals and a pedal keyboard. The longest pipe is 16 feet long and about 16 inches square; the smallest pipe is about one-half inch long. The organ also has two percussion stops: a set of chimes and a mechanical harp. In 1963 it was cleaned, refurbished, releathered and regulated.

The Great, Choir and Pedal divisions are located in the chambers to the left, the Swell division is located in the chamber to the right and the Solo division is located in a chamber above the proscenium arch. The Echo section and the chimes are located in a chamber which opens in the southwest corner of the gallery. The action of the organ is electro-pneumatic, and wind pressures range from five to 15 inches.

Several of the divisions reflect the goals of organ builders from the American Romantic period of the early 1900s and boast numerous 8-foot (unison) stops. Such stops are intended to imitate instruments of the symphony orchestra rather than to function as members of the classic organ ensemble. Complete diapason and reed choruses are found on the Great and Swell divisions, however, and these two divisions provide the full traditional manual ensemble of the instrument.

Specification

Great Organ

• Bourdon (Pedal extension) 16' 17 pipes
• First Diapason 8' 61 pipes
• Second Diapason 8' 61 pipes
• Flute Harmonique 8' 61 pipes
• Principal 4' 61 pipes
• Flute 4' 61 pipes
• Fifteenth 2' 61 pipes
• Mixture IV ranks 2' 244 pipes
• Tuba 8' 61 pipes
• Clarion 4' 61 pipes

Swell Organ (under expression)

• Diapason 8' 73 pipes
• Rohrfloete 8' 73 pipes
• Flauto Dolce 8' 73 pipes
• Flute Celeste 8' 61 pipes
• Salicional 8' 73 pipes
• Voix Celeste 8' 73 pipes
• Octave 4' 73 pipes
• Flute Triangulaire 4' 73 pipes
• Mixture V ranks 2' 305 pipes
• Waldhorn 16' 73 pipes
• Trumpet 8' 73 pipes
• Oboe 8' 73 pipes
• Vox Humana 8' 73 pipes
• Clarion 4' 73 pipes
• Tremolo

Choir Organ (under expression) 

• Geigen 8' 73 pipes
• Concert Flute 8' 73 pipes
• Dulciana 8' 73 pipes
• Unda Maris 8' 61 pipes
• Flute 4' 73 pipes
• Nazard 2 鈪�' 61 pipes
• English Horn 8' 73 pipes
• Harp 8' (61 bars and resonators)
• Celesta 4'
• Tremolo

Solo Organ (under expression)

• Gamba 8' 73 pipes
• Gamba Celeste 8' 73 pipes
• French Horn 8' 73 pipes
• Tuba Mirabilis 8' 73 pipes
• Tremolo

Echo Organ (under expression)

• Diapason 8' 73 pipes
• Fernfloete 8' 73 pipes
• Vox Humana 8' 73 pipes
• Tromba 8' 73 pipes
• Chimes 8' ( 25 tubular bells)
• Tremolo

Pedal

• Diapason 32' (Lowest 12 resultant)
• Diapason 16' 32 pipes
• Bourdon 16' 32 pipes
• Octave 8' 12 pipes
• Gedeckt 8' 12 pipes
• Flute 4' 12 pipes
• Trombone 16' 32 pipes
• Tromba 8' 12 pipes
• Clarion 4' 12 pipes

The organ has a total of eight unison, 12 octave and six pedal couplers. There are four adjustable general combination pistons affecting all stops; six combination pistons for the Great, Choir, Solo/Echo and Pedal divisions, and eight for the Swell division.

Pels & Van Leeuwen听Gallery Organ

Built by Pels & van Leeuwen, Orgelmakers of Alkmaar, the Netherlands.

The gallery organ in Dimnent Memorial Chapel was built in 1970 in the style of the 17th and 18th century Dutch organ. Its pipes and action are self-contained in an oak case with speaking pipes forming a prospect across the front opening. The key action is completely mechanical, and the wind pressure is low. The organ has three divisions: the Bovenwerk, played on the upper keyboard; the Hoofdwerk, the main division played on the lower keyboard; and the Pedaal. The principal rank of pipes for each of these divisions is called the Prestant (鈥榮how pipes鈥�), and is located in the organ鈥檚 case. As one looks at the front of the instrument the location of the pipes for each division becomes clearly apparent: the two 鈥榮ide towers鈥� house the Pedaal, the upper central section houses the Bovenwerk (鈥榰pper works鈥�) and the lower central section houses the Hoofdwerk. The organ was a gift from Edsko and Claire Hekman in thanks to Hope College for providing their daughter Rosemary 鈥渨ith a priceless education.鈥�

Specification

Hoofdwerk

• Bourdon 16' 56 pipes
• Prestant 8' 56 pipes
• Roerfluit 8' 56 pipes
• Octaaf 4' 56 pipes
• Spitsfluit 4' 56 pipes
• Nazard 2 鈪�' 56 pipes Superoctaaf 2鈥� 56 pipes
• Terts 1 鈪�' 56 pipes
• Mixtuur IV 1 鈪�' 224 pipes
• Cimbel III 1陆' 168 pipes
• Trompet 8' 56 pipes

 

Bovenwerk

• Holpijp 8' 56 pipes
• Prestant 4' 56 pipes
• Roerfluit 4' 56 pipes
• Kegelpijp 2' 56 pipes
• Spitskwint 1 鈪�' 56 pipes
• Scherp III 1' 56 pipes
• Kromhoorn 8' 56 pipes
• Tremulant

Pedaal

• Subbas 16' 30 pipes
• Bourdon (HW) 16'
• Prestant 8' 30 pipes
• Gedekt 8' 30 pipes
• Octaaf 4' 30 pipes
• Mixtuur IV 2' 120 pipes
• Bazuin 16' 30 pipes
• Schalmei 4' 30 pipes

Couplers

• Bovenwerk to Hoofdwerk
• Hoofdwerk to Pedaal
• Bovenwerk to Pedaal

J.W. Walker & Sons Studio Organ

Built by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd. of Brandon, Suffolk, England.

The studio organ was made possible by a generous gift from Mr. Gerritt Hospers (鈥�49). Dr. Huw Lewis and the late Andrew Pennells, who was also responsible for all the technical details of the pipes, chests, action and winding systems, drew up the specification. (This instrument was the last to be designed by Andrew Pennells, who died before the organ was completed.) Construction of the instrument began in 1999 in England, and the organ was installed in the summer of 2000. J. W. Walker鈥檚 Tonal Director, David Wilson, carried out the voicing of all pipes on location. David Graber designed the organ鈥檚 case. The organ was formally dedicated on October 6, 2000.

The organ was conceived as a teaching instrument for an undergraduate curriculum; therefore, it was designed to be a versatile organ expected to accommodate a broad cross-section of organ literature rather than the music of one particular historical tradition. But while the organ is flexible, it is not an eclectic instrument. Rather it is an instrument that very much continues the tradition of post-Restoration English organ builders, who, upon returning from an extended period of Continental exile, consistently grafted French, German and Dutch ideas onto a well-defined English tradition which evolved without ever being abruptly abandoned.

The organ consists of four divisions: Great, Swell, Choir and Pedal. Of the 34 speaking stops, seven are either partially or wholly derived, yielding a total of 1,971 pipes.

The manual compass is 61 notes (C鈥揷4), while that of the pedal is 32 notes (C鈥揼1). The curving terraced arrangement of the stops reflects the influence of Cavaill茅-Coll. The key, pedal, coupling and expression actions are mechanical; the drawstop and combination actions are electric. There are eight combination pistons for each of the four divisions: the Great and Pedal combinations may be coupled. Eight general combination pistons are available on either manual or toe pistons. All couplers may be operated by reversible toe and manual pistons. A solid state logic system provides 96 levels of memory and a combination sequencer, which may be archived onto a standard floppy disc. The organ is tuned in an unequal (though unrestricted) temperament developed in the 1980s by H. A. Kellner. There are two interchangeable pedal boards, a standard 鈥楢nglo-American鈥� pedal board and one flat pedal board.

Specification

Great Organ

• Open Diapason 8' 61 pipes
• Gamba 8' 61 pipes
• Stopped Flute 8' 61 pipes
• Principal 4' 61 pipes
• Harmonic Flute 4' 61 pipes
• Twelfth 2 鈪�' 61 pipes
• Fifteenth 2' 61 pipes
• Furniture IV 1 鈪�' 244 pipes
• Trumpet 8' 61 pipes

Swell Organ

• Chimney Flute 8' 61 pipes
• Salicional 8' 61 pipes
• Voix C茅leste (from F) 8' 56 pipes
• Geigen Principal 4' 61 pipes
• Open Flute 4' 61 pipes
• Nazard 2 鈪�' 61 pipes
• Flageolet 2' 61 pipes
• Tierce 1 鈪�' 61 pipes
• Mixture III 1' 183 pipes
• Bassoon 16' 61 pipes
• Hautboy 8' 61 pipes
• Tremulant (affecting Swell and Choir)

Choir Organ

• Stopped Diapason* 8' 37 pipes
• Gemshorn** 4' 37 pipes
• Spire Flute*** 4' 37 pipes
• Fifteenth 2' 61 pipes
• Larigot 1 鈪�' 61 pipes
• Piccolo 1' 61 pipes
• Cremona 8' 61 pipes

* Pipes 1鈥�24 borrowed from the Swell Chimney Flute
** Pipes 1鈥�24 borrowed from the Swell Geigen Principal
*** Pipes 1鈥�24 borrowed from the Swell Open Flute

Pedal Organ

• Subbass 16' 32 pipes
• Principal (from Great) 8'
• Violoncello (from Great) 8'
• Bass Flute (from Great) 8'
• Fifteenth 4' 32 pipes
• Fagotto 16' 32 pipes
• Trumpet (from Great) 8'
• Tremulant (affecting Pedal and Great)

Casavant Concert Organ

The Casavant Concert organ (Op. 3903) was a gift by David Roossien, a friend of the college, and built by Casavant Freres of Quebec, Canada. Dedicated in February of 2016, the instrument is French symphonic in style and contains 54 ranks of pipes across four divisions. The electro-pneumatic design allows for a moveable console to accompany both ensembles and solo recitals.