Our Talented Competitors : Christian Lane (view all) - ELIMINATED
Christian Lane is Assistant University Organist and Choirmaster at Harvard University. A laureate of several major competitions, he earned First Prize in four such American contests and was awarded both Second Prize and Audience Prize in the 2004 American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition. His primary teachers are David Higgs and Thomas Murray, and he holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Yale University. Passionate about commissioning new music and using the organ in collaborative settings, Christian Lane, who was born in Maryland, has performed extensively throughout the US and Europe. He has also worked in some of the most prominent church music programs in the United States, including as Assistant Organist to John Scott at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, in New York.