Steven Frank

STEVEN FRANK studied organ with Virgil Fox and once even shared the stage with him at a Community Concert series on Long Island, NY. He is a graduate of the Guilmant Organ School, where he studied organ with George Markey, and Wagner College, where he later spent five years on the music faculty. He also studied with Walter Baker at the Mannes School of Music, Jasper Thorogood from St. Paul’s School in London, and Tyler McGlamry.

Mr. Frank has played concerts in most major New York churches, given numerous recitals at the former Gallery of Modern Art, and performed
the New York premiere of Ricard Bellak’s Fantasy for organ and brass at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. For the last 3 years he has closed the summer concert series at Round Lake, NY playing on the three-manual 1847 Ferris pipe organ.

In the Fall of 2000 Mr. Frank was one of eight performers at the 20th
Anniversary Virgil Fox Memorial concert at The Riverside Church in New York City, which drew one of the largest crowds at an organ concert in recent memory and was the subject of an article in the New York Times. A commercial recording of this concert was released by Gothic Records.

The following month Mr. Frank was invited to play the Wanamaker Organ
at the then Lord & Taylor store in Philadelphia. It is the largest playing organ in the world with 28,500 pipes controlled by a console with 6 keyboards and 729 color-coded stop tablets.

In addition to the Riverside recording, Mr. Frank has recorded two compact discs, "Autumn Fires" and "Images". Both recordings feature special sections to introduce children to poetry and the organ.

For the last 10 years Mr. Frank has held various positions on the executive board of the Queens Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.