Stabat Mater by Frank Ferko : A Mosaic of Mourning: The Universality of Mothers' Grief: Ancient Texts Made Relevant by the Addition of English Interpolations by Barbara Sue Johnston Wilson (May 2006)

Interviews and Other Articles about Frank Ferko

Mr. Ferko's works have been reviewed in numerous publications including the following: Gramophone, The American Organist, Diapason, Fanfare, The American Record Guide, Choir & Organ, Choral Journal, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Magazine, Bay Area Reporter, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Austin Chronicle and The Pioneer Press.

To see excerpts from selected reviews, please visit the Reviews page on this site.

Pre-Concert Talk at Stanford University: Olivier Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus. Stanford University's Messiaen Centenary Celebration continues with pianist Christopher Taylor performing the entire Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus on Sunday, February 22, 2009, at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. Mr. Ferko's talk will precede the concert.

Pre-Concert Talk at Stanford University: An Overview of the Organ Works of Olivier Messiaen: Paper delivered at the inaugural concert of Stanford’s Messiaen Centenary Celebration, an all-Messiaen organ recital performed by Dame Gillian Weir.

From 1992 to the present Mr. Ferko has made numerous guest presentations of his own music at various universities in the U.S. and for chapters of the American Guild of Organists.

Annual guest lectures at Northwestern University's School of Music on the organ music of Olivier Messiaen, 1993-2004.

During his 2001-2003 composer residency with the Dale Warland Singers Mr. Ferko organized and presented and participated in pre-concert talks for the audience. These inlcuded discussions of new music, the setting of literary texts, interviews with composers and performers. Mr. Ferko was also invited to present his own works to students at the University of Minnesota, Augsburg College (both in Minneapolis) and Hopkins High School (Minnetonka, Minnesota).

Commissioning New Music: A Guide for Church Musicians, presented to the North Shore Chapter, AGO (November 2003) and the Fox Valley Chapter, AGO (October 2004).

"The Summary Organ Works of Olivier Messiaen," a lecture/demonstration presented at the Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the College Music Society in Santa Fe, New Mexico. An abstract of the presentation is published in CMS Proceedings: The National and Regional Meetings, 1988.

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