This concert is co-sponsored by the American Guild of Organists and Duquesne University in honor of Dr. Labounsky being awarded the 2025 AGO Endowment Fund Distinguished Artist Award. More details will be published as they become available.

Dr. Ann Labounsky, FAGO, ChM, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (Musicology); M.Mus, University of Michigan (Marilyn Mason); B.Mus., Eastman School of Music (David Craighead); studied in Paris with André Marchal and Jean Langlais on a Fulbright Grant and holds diplomas from the Schola Cantorum and École Normale and is the author of a biography of Langlais, Jean Langlais: the Man and His Music, published in 2000 by Amadeus Press, Portland, Oregon. She recorded the complete organ works by Jean Langlais for the Musical Heritage Society which have been reissued on the Voix du Vent label and narrated and performed in a DVD of his life based on this biography, a project sponsored by the Los Angeles AGO Chapter. As Chair of Organ and Sacred Music at Duquesne University, she oversees undergraduate and graduate programs in sacred music. An active member of the American Guild of Organists, the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, and the Church Music Association of America, she has held positions as Director of the National Committee on Improvisation, Councilor for Education for the American Guild of Organists, and national Director of Certification for the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. She serves as Organ Artist in Residence at First Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh and as past-dean of the Pittsburgh, AGO Chapter. Most recently she made a webinar for the AGO based on Langlais’ teaching of improvisation.

Dr. Labounsky will manifest her technical feats at the three-manual 25-rank Jaeckel instrument at Duquesne University's Chapel of the Holy Spirit.