Hailed as “elegantly assured” by the Dallas Morning News, and featured as a “young talent” in interview and performances with nationally syndicated radio show PipedreamsÒ, Damin Spritzer has performed organ recitals from coast to coast since receiving her first scholarship for organ lessons from the American Guild of Organists as a high school student. Recent recital appearances include Louisville, KY, Lubbock, TX, Sacramento, CA, Fayetteville, AK, Buffalo, NY (St. Paul’s Cathedral), Portland, OR (Trinity Episcopal Cathedral), and numerous appearances in Dallas: the Meyerson Symphony Center, Highland Park United Methodist Church, Saint Rita Catholic Community, Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal Church of the Ascension, St. Mark’s School of Texas, Spring Valley United Methodist Church, Wynne Chapel at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, and University Park United Methodist Church.

In April of 2011, Ms. Spritzer released her first commercial recording, a world premier CD of the music of René Louis Becker (1882-1956). Recorded in Pithiviers, France in September of 2010 at the newly renovated historic organ of the church of Saint-Salomon-Saint-Gregoire de Pithiviers, the disc has been receiving glowing reviews. The 2011 September/October issue of Choir & OrganÒ magazine gave the disc a full five stars, writing further that “Damin Spritzer serves both instrument and music well, alert to the music’s lyrical mien and harmonic muscle, negotiating the III/49 machine with an easy command of drama and a real feeling for Becker’s melody-led, cleanly-executed music…A second volume is eagerly awaited.” A review from Classical Music Sentinel (www.ClassicalMusicSentinel.com) praised the recording, saying “…Damin Spritzer drives the music along with plenty of forward momentum which adds a singing quality to the melodic lines and an assured rhythmic movement to the toccatas and marches...the final glorious chord of the Marche Triomphale will make you glad you’re alive.” The recording is available from www.RavenCD.com, and Ms. Spritzer is currently working on a second volume of the music of Becker, also for Raven Recordings.

Damin Spritzer has had the honor of being heard with Michael Barone’s nationally-syndicated “Pipedreams” radio broadcast on several occasions, including program no. 0432, entitled “Twenty-Somethings,” the “Pipedreams: Live!” performance at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas in 2005, (performed to a completely full house of over 2,000 seats), and program no. 0713, “Merriment at the Meyerson.” She has competed and won awards in many organ competitions, and was selected as one of the initial 25 competitors in the 2006 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance. She has received both First and Second prizes in AGO Chapter and Regional Competitions in Portland, Oregon and Cleveland, Ohio, and was a Finalist in the National Competition for Young Organists in Ottumwa, Iowa. She received the Honorable Mention for Repertoire Playing as well as the prize for Best Hymn Playing in the graduate division of the Thirty-second Annual William C. Hall Pipe Organ Competition in San Antonio, Texas.

She designed and performs an educational concert for teaching children about the organ that was featured as a “Best Bet for Children” in the Dallas Morning News. She was invited to perform and present at the AGO’s Regional Convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma for two events: playing the Grand-Orgue for Louis Vierne’s Messe Solenelle with conductor Constantina Tsolainu, and serving as a panelist with C. Michael Hahn and Michael Bauer in a discussion titled “Walking the Minefield of the Worship Wars”. Her commissioned work from award-winning composer Aaron Travers (Three Pieces for Organ) has been performed on at least nine separate occasions by a number of different organists. Ms. Spritzer’s performances are notable for varied programs that champion unknown romantic works for organ as well as new compositions by living composers, and she often collaborates with other instruments such as harp and trombone.

Beginning in February of 2009, Ms. Spritzer joined the music staff of University Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas as Associate Director of Music and Organist. From August 2000 until December 2008, she was the Associate Director of Music and Organist for Saint Rita Catholic Church, also in Dallas. She is currently working towards the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts (2012) at the University of North Texas with Jesse Eschbach. She is also a recent graduate of two of the most prestigious music schools in the country, having received her Master of Music degree in Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York with David Higgs and her Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, studying primarily with Haskell Thomson. Her organ teachers have included David Boe, Gerre Hancock, Joel Martinson, Karel Paukert, and Delbert Saman. Ms. Spritzer has served the Dallas Chapter of the American Guild of Organists as a member of the Executive Committee and the Recital Committee.