Ahreum Han - Orpheus in the Underworld: Dances, Spirits, Toccatas, Sonatas, and a Transcription (2018)

Organist Ahreum Han’s imaginative, powerful, and extraordinary performances have thrilled audiences throughout North America, Asia, and Europe. She has appeared at the International Organ Festival in Arbon, Switzerland, Jack Singer Hall (Calgary, Canada), Michaeliskirche (Leipzig, Germany), Oxford Town Hall (UK), Nottingham Albert Concert Hall (UK), and Esplanade Hall (Singapore). Han was a featured soloist at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists held in Nashville, Tennessee in 2012. She was featured at AGO Regional Conventions held in Cedar Rapids, IA (2017); New Haven, CT (2015), Atlanta (2007), and played for the AGO Winter Conclave in Sarasota, Florida (2010), the Young Virtuosi Festival held at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Colorado State University, and the White Mountain Musical Arts Bach Festival in New Hampshire.

Han has appeared as a solo recitalist in major venues include the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall (Philadelphia); Riverside Church, St. Bartholomew’s Church, and Trinity Church, Wall Street (NYC); Princeton University Chapel; Memorial Chapel at Harvard University (Boston); Ocean Grove Auditorium (Ocean Grove, New Jersey), St. Philip’s Cathedral (Atlanta), Broadway Baptist Church (Fort Worth), Merrill Auditorium (Portland, Maine. She has appeared as organ soloist with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra at Kimmel Center and the University of Pennsylvania Orchestra at Irvine Auditorium.

Han has received top prizes from numerous competitions including the Oundle Award (UK), undergraduate division of Westminster Choir College Scholarship Competition, the Music Teachers National Association National Young Artist Performance Competition, the Albert Schweitzer organ competition, the Carlean Neihart Organ Competition, the West Chester University Organ Competition, and the Edwin Seder prize at Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Her live performances have been featured on the radio show Pipedreams from American Public Media.

Han was born in Seoul, Korea. Her family immigrated to Atlanta when she was sixteen. She received a Bachelor’s degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College, a Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, Master’s degree from Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Her teachers include Ken Cowan, Alan Morrison, and Thomas Murray.

Han is Director of Music and Organist at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth, Texas, having served 2010-2018 as Principal Organist, Assistant Director of Music, and Artist-in-Residence at First Presbyterian Church in Dav­en­port, Iowa. She served on the organ faculty at Iowa State University, Ames, and as College Organist at Cornell College in Mount Ver­non, Iowa. She has also work­ed as Principal Organ­ist at First Presbyterian Church, West Chester, Penn­syl­vania, as an organist at Marquand Chapel of Yale Divinity School, as an organist the Berkeley Divinity School of Yale University, and as organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Stamford, Connecticut.