Otto is an outstanding improviser and a regular concert artist, with an astonishing ability to improvise in all styles and in traditional forms, encompassing Suites, Partitas, Variations and symphonies. He studied at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen and at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf and since 1993 has been kantor and organist in Straelen, Germnay. In 1995 he won first prize at the Montbrison Improvsation Competition. He teaches improvisation at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey and gives regular organ concerts, with an emphasis on improvisation through the ages and styles. Otto's easy manner and good humour have made him a popular and sought-after teacher.

Gerard was organ scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford where he studied with Susi Jeans. He then studied for two years with Daniel Roth at Strasbourg Conservatoire and subsequently with Nicolas Kynaston. He is Associate Director of Music at All Souls, Langham Place and a tutor for the St. Giles International Organ School, where he specialises in improvisation and French romantic repertoire. He records regularly for the Priory label, and has just finished a complete recording of the organ works of Eugène Gigout, and this year begins a project to record the organ music of Saint-Saëns.

Duncan first studied organ with Norris Marshall in London and made further studies in Bordeaux and Lourdes for over eight years, with particular emphasis on liturgical and concert improvisation. He was appointed Organiste Titulaire at the French Church of Notre Dame de France, Leicester Place in 1989.

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