Dr. Daniel Pyle
Adjunct Instructor of Music

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danielpyle@clayton.edu

danielpyle@mindspring.com

 

 

Daniel Pyle is Adjunct Instructor of Music at Clayton State University and Music Director/Organist for The Church of Our Savior in Atlanta.  As an organist, he has performed in the Netherlands, at the Universities of Kansas and Alabama and LSU, and elsewhere in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Kansas.  As a harpsichordist he has played with baroque ensembles in Paris, Amsterdam, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, London’s St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the Boston Early Music Festival; and throughout the American Southeast, including the 1992 Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, performing all six of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. In 1998 he appeared as organ-soloist with the Albany (GA) Symphony Orchestra, playing Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ and Strings, and the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony. His most recent performances include three concertos by Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and Orchestra Atlanta, the Harpsichord Concerto in D minor with the Clayton State University Chamber Orchestra, and the Concerto for Three Harpsichords with the newly-founded Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, for which he is the regular harpsichordist and a member of the board of directors. He has also performed with the Atlanta Virtuosi, in a new work that was commissioned for the 1996 Cultural Olympiad, and with the Georgia Sinfonia. His recording of Elizabethan music on a lautenwerk, The Maidens Song, is available on the Gasparo label (GSCD 334).

Dr. Pyle holds bachelors and masters degrees in organ performance and music history from the University of Alabama, where he was a student of Warren Hutton.  His doctorate is from the Eastman School of Music.  He also participated in several master classes under Arthur Poister and Harald Vogel.  Following his studies in this country he went to Amsterdam, where he was instructed by Gustav Leonhardt for harpsichord and Hans van Nieuwkoop for organ, and to the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in the class of Kenneth Gilbert.  Since returning to this country he has taught at the University of Kansas and at Louisiana State University, and has given master classes at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK.

Links

Church of Our Savior.  http://www.oursaviouratlanta.org/

Atlanta Baroque Orchestra.  http://baroque.home.mindspring.com/