Chapter Leadership
Chapter Officers (2019-2020)
Tony Bruno, Dean
Contact: tbruno@athenscatholic.org
Contact: tbruno@athenscatholic.org
A native of Wheeling, West Virginia, Tony holds a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance from Ohio University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from West Liberty University. His organ instructors have included Robert Troeger, Alfred R. de Jaager, Janette Fishell, Colin Andrews and Paul Barte.
Tony is currently the Director of Music at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Athens, Ohio, and has previously held positions as Director of Music and Organist at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Wheeling, West Virginia and St. Mary's Parish in Martins Ferry, Ohio. He has also worked as a Staff Accompanist for the Department of Music and Theater at West Liberty University.
As an accompanist and collaborator, Tony has worked with several choral and instrumental ensembles including West Liberty University's All-College Chorus, Concert Choir and Men's Ensemble. He has recently served as an accompanist for the Ohio University Choral Union, Ohio University Opera Theater Department and was the pianist for the Ohio University Wind Symphony (2016-2017).
Tony currently serves as Dean for the Southeast Ohio chapter of the American Guild of Organists and is active in several professional organizations including the American Guild of Organists, the National Association of Pastoral Musicians and Music Teacher's National Association (MTNA). He is a member of the national music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda and currently serves as a member of the Diocesan Liturgical Commission for the Diocese of Steubenville (Ohio).
Paul Barte, Sub-Dean
Contact: barte@ohio.edu
Contact: barte@ohio.edu
Dr. Paul T. Barte has been a member of the music faculty at the Ohio University School of Music since 1997. In 2003, he was tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. At OU, he teaches organ and harpsichord, as well as keyboard literature and music history classes. He was the 2005 recipient of the School of Music’s Distinguished Teaching Award. In addition to his academic responsibilities, he also serves as University Organist.
From 1990-97, Barte was on the music faculty of Idaho State University in Pocatello. He is a Minnesota native and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, where he was an organ student of Heinrich Fleischer and Dean Billmeyer. Studying with George Ritchie, he completed a master’s degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1987. He began doctoral studies in organ performance at the Eastman School of Music as a student of Russell Saunders in 1987. He graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman in 1995, having completed a dissertation on the keyboard manuscripts of Johann Christoph Bach (1673-1727) of Gehren, a second cousin of J. S. Bach. The dissertation was written under the supervision of Buxtehude scholar Kerala Snyder.
He has performed extensively in the United States and at the Taborkirche in Leipzig, Germany. Recent performances include recitals on the world-famous Mormon Tabernacle organ. Barte has presented recitals and workshops at Regional and National conventions of The American Guild of Organists (AGO) and the Music Teacher’s National Association (MTNA). These have included two sessions on Bach, one given at the 2001 MTNA convention in Washington, D.C. and the second at the 2003 convention in Salt Lake City.
Barte currently serves as the AGO's Regional Councillor for Region V. In this capacity he oversees the Guild's activities in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, and Michigan. In 2000, 2003 and 2007, he served as director for AGO-sponsored Pipe Organ Encounters (POE) held at Ohio University. POEs provide junior high and high school students an opportunity for intensive exposure to the organ in a summer camp environment. In 2000, he coordinated Ohio University's "Bachfest 2000" which featured presentations by eminent Bach scholars Christoph Wolff and George Stauffer. Dr. Barte has diverse experience as a church musician, having served Lutheran, Catholic, Methodist, UCC, Latter-day Saint, and Unitarian congregations in Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Idaho and Ohio.
From 1990-97, Barte was on the music faculty of Idaho State University in Pocatello. He is a Minnesota native and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, where he was an organ student of Heinrich Fleischer and Dean Billmeyer. Studying with George Ritchie, he completed a master’s degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1987. He began doctoral studies in organ performance at the Eastman School of Music as a student of Russell Saunders in 1987. He graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman in 1995, having completed a dissertation on the keyboard manuscripts of Johann Christoph Bach (1673-1727) of Gehren, a second cousin of J. S. Bach. The dissertation was written under the supervision of Buxtehude scholar Kerala Snyder.
He has performed extensively in the United States and at the Taborkirche in Leipzig, Germany. Recent performances include recitals on the world-famous Mormon Tabernacle organ. Barte has presented recitals and workshops at Regional and National conventions of The American Guild of Organists (AGO) and the Music Teacher’s National Association (MTNA). These have included two sessions on Bach, one given at the 2001 MTNA convention in Washington, D.C. and the second at the 2003 convention in Salt Lake City.
Barte currently serves as the AGO's Regional Councillor for Region V. In this capacity he oversees the Guild's activities in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, and Michigan. In 2000, 2003 and 2007, he served as director for AGO-sponsored Pipe Organ Encounters (POE) held at Ohio University. POEs provide junior high and high school students an opportunity for intensive exposure to the organ in a summer camp environment. In 2000, he coordinated Ohio University's "Bachfest 2000" which featured presentations by eminent Bach scholars Christoph Wolff and George Stauffer. Dr. Barte has diverse experience as a church musician, having served Lutheran, Catholic, Methodist, UCC, Latter-day Saint, and Unitarian congregations in Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Idaho and Ohio.
George Weckman, Treasurer
Contact: weckman@ohio.edu
Contact: weckman@ohio.edu
Photograph by Kayla Hoffman
