Curtis commissions new organ

From Dobson Pipe Organ Builders:

We are honored and delighted to announce the construction of a new organ for the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The commissioning of Opus 100, celebrating Curtis’s 100th anniversary, comes during our 50th anniversary year and is the first instrument to be constructed in our new workshop. Alan Morrison, holder of the Haas Charitable Trust Chair in Organ Studies, directs the department and is the primary instructor for its five students; he is joined by Jeffrey Brillhart, who teaches improvisation. The design of the new instrument for Field Concert Hall is a collaboration between Dobson and a committee of Curtis organ alumni. The new organ will occupy the same chambers as the previous instrument, though the arrangement of divisions will be different. In addition to a new four-manual console, a portable two-manual teaching console will be provided. Installation begins in 2025, with completion in 2026.