Delbert Disselhorst

DELBERT DISSELHORST is Professor of Music and Chairman of the Organ Department at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

An Illinois native, Disselhorst earned both the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Illinois and graduated as a Bronze Tablet Scholar.

Under a Fulbright grant, Disselhorst studied organ with Helmut Walcha at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan, and was awarded the Palmer Christian Citation as a distinguished alumnus of the Michigan Organ Department. Teachers include Jerald Hamilton, Mildred Andrews Boggess, Marilyn Mason and Russell Saunders.

Disselhorst has performed in the United States, Canada Europe and Korea. He appeared as a recitalist for the Region VI American Guild of Organists Convention in Kansas City in 1979, in Milwaukee in 1981, and in Minneapolis in 1989. He also performed at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in Houston, Texas. European Concert tours include recitals in Denmark, Germany, and France, including the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Disselhorst has been a featured artist for international festivals and concert series in the cathedrals of Trier and Limburg and the Munster in Freiburg, Germany.

As a recording artist, Dr. Disselhorst has recorded two CD’s, one on the Arkay label Organ Works of Rorem and Pinkham and the second one Harmonische Seelenlust of G.F. Kauffmann on the Pro Organo label.