Secrets Of Organ Playing Podcast

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #130! Today's guest is an American organist Randall Krum. He was born in Albany, New York and grew up in the nearby village of Ephratah where he studied piano and organ with local teachers. During high school he began focused organ studies with area organist, Dr. Elmer A. Tidmarsh, a onetime student of Charles-Marie Widor and a longtime friend of Marcel Dupré. ​Following graduation from high school and in preparation to audition for admission into college organ study, he studied with Willard Irving Nevins at the Guilmant Organ School in New York City. Subsequently he was accepted at the Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, MD, where he studied with Professors Clarence Snyder, Arthur Rhea and Arthur Howes completing both the Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in organ and liturgical music. Mr. Krum has been organist at a number of churches in the eastern United States, notably St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Baltimore, MD, Sacred Heart St. Francis de Sales Roman