Janette Fishell is Professor of Organ & Chair of the Organ Department at the Jacobs School of Music. Internationally recognized as a recitalist, teacher, and church musician, she received the 2014 Paul Creston Award, presented annually to “a distinguished artist who is a significant figure in church music”.

Jeffrey Smith is Professor of Practice: Organ and Sacred Music. He was music director at St. Paul’s Parish, K Street, in Washington D.C. and previously Canon Director of Music at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.  Smith earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University. He also studied at the Royal College of Music, London. Smith is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists and the Royal School of Church Music.

Stephen “Stef” C. Price recently joined the University of Washington (Seattle) music faculty as the inaugural Paul B. Fritts Faculty Fellow and Artist-in-Residence in Organ studies. Dr. Price teaches Organ performance, Organ literature, Church music, and Keyboard harmony courses. In addition, he leads ongoing initiatives toward the development and revitalization efforts of the UW Organ program, continuing the legacy of his predecessor, Dr. Carole Terry. He received the Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music under the mentorship of Dr. Janette Fishell. He has competed and garnered awards in International Organ Competitions, such as the Franz Schmidt Competition (Austria), the André Marchal Competition (France), and the Canadian International Competition (Montreal). Before his Seattle appointment, he was an Assistant Teaching Professor (Organ) at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. He is an active Church musician, freelancing throughout the Pacific Northwest, and as a recitalist, he has given performances across the country. Most recently, he was a featured performer for the 2024 National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in San Fransico, CA. His debut album, Paris Impact Organ Suites, is released on the Raven recording label, and he is represented by Seven Eight Artists, Inc.

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Elijah Harrison Buerk holds the BM in both Organ Performance and Composition from the Indiana University Bloomington Jacobs School of Music. An avid student of carillon from his pre-college days, Elijah now holds the Associate Instructorship in Carillon at Jacobs, where he teaches secondary and non-major students and administers the full schedule of carillon events, including performing the majority of the university’s weekly carillon recitals on Indiana University’s Arthur R. Metz Bicentennial Grand Carillon in the Cox Arboretum.  In addition to his studies, Elijah is Organist and Choir Director at First Presbyterian Church, Martinsville, IN, having previously served as Organ Scholar at Trinity Episcopal Church, Bloomington, IN.  He  conducted his first opera in the summer of 2025, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, in his hometown of Centralia, Illinois