MARTIN JEAN
  Martin Jean has risen to the highest ranks of the world's concert organists
and is recognized widely as a brilliant, warmly communicative artist and
readily appealing personality.  As the winner of two of the most prestigious
competitions in the world, he has concertized extensively throughout the US,
Canada and Europe.  IN 1986 Jean was awarded first prize at the international
Grand Prix de Chartes competition, of the Chartes Cathedral, France.  As part
of this prize, he was invited several times for concert tours of France,
England, and Luxembourg, where he played at the cathedrals of Poitiers,
Chartes, Orleans, Chichester, Oxford and St. Alban's.  He also appeared in
concert at Radio France in Paris as part of a recital series commemorating the
50th anniversary of the death of Louis Vierne.
     In 1992 he won the first prize at the National Young Artists' Competition
in Organ Performance of the AGO in Atlanta.  Since then, he has played over 40
recitals, including appearances at the 1993 International Congress of
Organists in Montreal, the Meyerson Symphony Hall in Dallas, the Naples
Performing Arts Center in Florida, the Riverside Church in New York City, and
as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
    Dr. Jean has held teaching positions at Concordia College, Valparaiso
University  and is currently Professor of Organ at Yale University.