MICHAEL UNGER
Canadian organist and harpsichordist MICHAEL UNGER is Associate
Professor of Organ and Harpsichord at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of
Music, USA. A multiple award-winning performer, he appears frequently as a soloist and
chamber musician in North America, Europe, Japan and South Korea. He is a First Prize
winner of the International Organ Competition Musashino-Tokyo, a First Prize and Audience
Prize winner of the National Young Artists’ Competition of the American Guild of Organists
(NYACOP), and a Second Prize and Audience Award winner of the International Schnitger
Organ Competition on the historic organs of Alkmaar, the Netherlands. Recent solo recitals
include Seoul’s Sejong Center, Internationale Orgelwoche Nürnberg – Musica Sacra,
Colorado State University Pipe Organ Week, Suhler Orgelsommer, and numerous other international and regional recital series. He received favorable international reviews for his
debut solo organ recordings under the Naxos and Pro Organo labels, and his performances
have been broadcast on North American and European radio. He holds a Doctorate of
Musical Arts with Performers’ Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, where he was a
student and teaching assistant of David Higgs and William Porter, and is also a Gold Medal
graduate of the University of Western Ontario.