Dr. Alison J. Luedecke is very active as a solo concert artist and has performed across the US, as well as in Canada and Europe. She has performed at regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, the Hymn Society, and the Organ Historical Society.

As an ensemble musician, Dr. Luedecke performs with, and is a founding member of the Millennia Consort, which features the Presidio Brass Quintet, percussion, and organ, and Millennia Too! with oboe/English horn and organ/harpsichord. Millennia Consort, California's premiere "organ plus" ensemble, is one of the finest ensembles with organ, brass quintet and percussion in the United States. It presents unique, dynamic programs that feature works through the millennia: premiering and showcasing exciting, new and accessible compositions in addition to transcriptions of music spanning the centuries. Millennia Too! presents an intimate chamber music offering and performs music written specifically for this combination of instruments, including premieres of new works by the best contemporary American composers, in addition to transcriptions of music spanning the millennia. Programs are varied in timbre and color by the combinations of instruments and with the exploitation of the variety of sounds of the pipe organ. As a freelance organist/harpsichordist she has performed with many groups in California including the Symphony Silicon Valley, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Peninsula Symphony, and the San Diego Chamber Orchestra.

As a recording artist, Dr. Luedecke has been heard numerous times on "Pipedreams", a nationally syndicated show, and she is featured on several recordings including the award winning Sacred Legacy of Paris: Music of 20th Century Titular Organists; Divinium Mysterium: Music for the Nativity; Consoliere Classics; Transformations: Music for Organ and Other Instruments; and Chant Mosaics; all published by World Library Publications. Her solo disc presents a broad array of repertoire and is a retrospective of four of the earliest organs in North America built by Rudolph von Beckerath: Trinity Lutheran, Cleveland; St. Andrew's/Dominion Douglass, Montreal; Stetson University, DeLand; and St. Paul's Cathedral, Pittsburgh (Raven, OAR-610). Millennia Too! has a CD entitled Paradise Found: Reflections for Oboes and Organ featuring works that have been premiered by the ensemble recorded on the Martin Ott organ at St. Brigid's Catholic Church, Pacific Beach, CA as well as favorites from the Baroque period recorded on the Fritts-Richards organ at All Souls Episcopal Church, Point Loma, CA. The most recent recording is with Millennia Consort Pictures of a New Beginning recorded at St. James by the Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, CA. This features works by California composers John Karl Hirten and Craig Phillips, arrangements by Jon Naples and Scott Sutherland (Pictures of an Exhibition), and other favorites.

Dr. Luedecke completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance at the Eastman School of Music as a student of David Craighead. Her church ministry has included positions as Director of Liturgical Music for the dioceses of Rochester, New York and San Diego, as well as Director of Liturgical Music and Organist positions both at the cathedral and parish level. She is currently Associate Organist at St. James by the Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, CA.

Short- Bio- Alison J. Luedecke, organ and harpsichord, is a native of Galveston, Texas. She is active across the US as a solo concert organist and has played in France, Canada, Mexico and Germany. As an ensemble musician she has performed with the Symphony Silicon Valley, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, and other chamber ensembles. She is also a founding member and organist with Millennia Consort (brass quintet, percussion and organ) and Millennia Too! (oboe and organ), California's premiere "Organ Plus" ensembles. As a recording artist Dr. Luedecke is featured on numerous CDs and has been heard many times on the nationally syndicated radio show Pipedreams. She received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance at the Eastman School of Music as a student of David Craighead. She also enjoys cooking, wine, yoga, belly dancing, and boogie boarding.

"Dr. Dorothy" started piano with her mother, a piano teacher, at age four, and dynamics, interpretation and composition with her father, a concert violinist and composer. She won her first competition at age seven, and like many little girls of the Shirley Temple era, studied tap dancing, acrobatics and singing. A move to Oklahoma City at age 12 provided opportunity to study advanced piano with Clarence Burg at Oklahoma City University, and at 14, she performed the Gershwin Piano Concerto with the OCU Symphony orchestra.

A year later, at Classen High School, the choir director suggested she take some organ lessons to become the school organist. Although this required little more than pop tunes and the school song, she started serious lessons with Dubert Dennis who insisted she play Bach correctly. At 16 she was offered a weekly radio show at Station KTOW playing pop tunes on the Hammond and reporting High School News.

At 17, she entered The University of Oklahoma School of Music and became a protégé of the renowned Mildred Andrews whose exceptional teaching skills and discipline resulted in top honors in several State and Regional competitions including First Place in the American Guild of Organists National Competition in San Francisco 1952. She received a scholarship to study at l'École de Musique de Fontainebleau, France, composition with Nadia Boulanger and organ with Marcel Dupré who recommended her as "...an excellent and perfect musician with a brilliant technique." In Paris, she was guest organist at the American Church, Ave George V, and later, organist at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Nice. A trip back to the states resulted in a position as organist at First Methodist Church, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1954-55, and while there she received an invitation to return to Europe as Organist-Choirmaster of the American Church, St Paul's Within the Walls, Rome, Italy, 1956-58.

A visiting Yale Professor heard her perform and offered a scholarship to Yale University Graduate Music School where she studied composition with Mel Powell, organ with Frank Bozyan, and played her Master's Recital Program including the seldom performed Schoenberg "Variations on a Recitative" at Woolsey Hall in 1959.

A series of life-changing events including the death of her beloved father from complications of diabetes a few months later, led her into the healing arts. She completed pre-med studies at Columbia University, New York City, gained admission to the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine at age 33, and received her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1969. After completing four years of post-graduate training she practiced Internal Medicine in Pasadena, California, until her retirement in 2000.

After relocating to Las Vegas Nevada, she resumed serious organ playing once again performing the Liszt "Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H" for the AGO Spring concert in 2004. In 2006 she performed on "Pipe Dreams Live from Las Vegas" as part of Region IX AGO Mid-Winter Conclave. Two months later she played her 75th Birthday Celebration Recital at The University of Nevada Las Vegas for a near-capacity audience receiving a standing ovation for her rendition of Sokola's "Passacaglia quasi Toccata on B-A-C-H."

A 77th Birthday Celebration Recital at First Christian Church, Las Vegas, 2009, was dedicated to her father on the 50th anniversary of his death and included the world premiere of her transcription of the Second Movement of his First Symphony written when she was six years old. Her 80th Birthday Celebration Recital took place at UNLV, April 2011.

Dr. Riess serves as Associate Organist at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Las Vegas, and is a member of Southern Nevada Chapter AGO. She enjoys recording and has released four commercial CDs through a private label, RAECD, available at www.cdbaby.com and www.amazon.com.

She is married to Dr. Louis C. Riess, B/G USAFR Ret., has two step sons and two grandchildren. She maintains performance edge with a vigorous program of weight training and long distance swimming. She is also an accomplished photographer whose images are sold worldwide by several international agencies, and enjoys languages, travel, dancing, swimming and hiking.

Concert organist Jonathan Dimmock has distinguished himself through his dazzling and highly sensitive performances in churches, major concert halls, music festivals and cathedrals throughout the world. Lauded for his diverse repertoire and his engagement with audiences, his performing is marked by both musical depth and a distinctive personalness, causing audiences immediately to warm to him. Hailed by the Eskilstuna-Kuriren (Sweden) for "power and flaming brio," cited by the Natal Mercury (South Africa) for "musicianship, taste, and unostentatious virtuosity," and described by the Adelaide Advertiser (Australia) as playing in such a way that "the organ has rarely sounded more clear and multi-hued than in his very expert and virtuoso hands and feet," Jonathan is considered by many to be one of the leading musicians in his field.

Inspired, as a young boy, by two significant historical figures, Thomas Edison and J. S. Bach, Jonathan, himself, is noteworthy as both an entrepreneur (like Edison) and a multi-faceted artist (like Bach). Of the many organizations, ensembles, and non-profits he has founded, the award-winning American Bach Soloists stands out among the biggest musical ensembles, followed by AVE (Artists' Vocal Ensemble), the acclaimed professional vocal ensemble, which he directs, specializing in Renaissance polyphony. He plays keyboards with many ensembles, including the San Francisco Symphony, where he has had the privilege of working with some of the world's greatest conductors. His solo performing career, as well as his work as an accompanist, takes him on foreign and domestic tours regularly.

A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Yale School of Music and Yale Divinity School, he became the first American ever to hold the prestigious position of Organ Scholar of Westminster Abbey. He then went on to serve two American cathedrals, St. John the Divine in New York City, and St. Mark's in Minneapolis. Jonathan now resides in California, serving as Organist of St. Ignatius Church (San Francisco), Organist of Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, Organist of Congregation Sherith Israel (San Francisco), and Organist for the San Francisco Symphony. With the San Francisco Symphony he participated in the Grammy award-winning CD recording of Mahler's Eighth Symphony (Classical Album of the year for 2009).

His teachers and mentors have included Dame Gillian Weir, Peter Hallock, Paul Halley, Simon Preston, Jean Langlais, Harald Vogel, William Porter, and Haskell Thomson. His interest in French improvisational styles led him to pursue study with Frédéric Blanc, Naji Hakim, and Gerre Hancock. He is a published composer and writer, and his more-than-thirty CDs appear on labels including Gothic, Loft, Raven, BCI Records, Time-Warner Recordings, and Koch International. He has been interviewed and featured on National Public Radio, Radio France, BBC3, ABC (Australia), MTV2 (Budapest), and SABC (South Africa).

His appreciation of the healing power of music and the arts led him to found the non-profit organization, Art to the Nations, using music in international conflict resolution.

He loves to be engaged in conversation on the topics of Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality and the Arts.