Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: 6 Variations on 'Mein junges Leben hat ein End' /Joyce Chen, organ

Joyce Chen, Organ Recorded live on February 11, 2024 Central Lutheran Church in Eugene, Oregon Audio recording + editing by Josef Ward Organ information: Brombaugh, opus 19 from 1976, 3 manuals and pedal, 39 stops. Special Acknowledgement: Many thanks to Central Lutheran Church and the Music Ministry Team (Dr. A. ElRay Stewart-Cook and Dr. Lindsey Rodgers) for making the organ available. --- ****** A native of Taiwan, Dr. Joyce Wei-Jo Chen is Assistant Professor of Historical Keyboards at the University of Oregon, where she teaches musicology courses and studio lessons in harpsichord and organ and directs Collegium Musicum. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Music (Historical Musicology) and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Humanities at Princeton University. Under the guidance of Wendy Heller, Joyce is finishing her dissertation, “Musica Experientia/Experimentum: Acoustics and Artisanal Knowledge in the Global Seventeenth Century,” which explores the intersection between science, music, and aesthetics involving instrument-making, sensory experience, and the development of acoustical theory. Joyce received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Harpsichord Performance from Stony Brook University (2017) and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley (2011).