MICHAEL UNGER is an acclaimed harpsichordist and organist who appears as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician in North America, Europe, Japan, and South Korea. Since 2013, he is Associate Professor of Organ and Harpsichord at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. A prizewinner in major international organ competitions, he received First Prize and Audience Prize at the American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance (NYACOP) and the Sixth International Organ Competition Musashino–Tokyo, as well as Second Prize and the Audience Award at the Schnitger International Organ Competition on the historic organs of Alkmaar, the Netherlands. Recent solo recitals include performances for national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, Organ Historical Society, Historical Keyboard Society of North America and Association of Anglican Musicians; ‘Five Continents – Five Organists’ Festival at Sejong Center, Seoul, South Korea; International Festival of Organ, Choral and Chamber Music Gdańsk, Poland; Internationale Orgelwoche Nürnberg – Musica Sacra; and numerous international and regional recital series. Recent orchestral appearances include Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 “Organ”, and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand”, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Other organ and harpsichord collaborations include Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Vocal Arts Ensemble, Collegium Cincinnati, Catacoustic Consort, Incantare, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra and Publick Musick, with repertoire that includes J.S. Bach’s major choral works, the complete Brandenburg Concertos and Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord. He received favorable international reviews for his debut solo recordings under the Naxos and Pro Organo labels, and his performances have been broadcast on North American and European radio, including syndicated programsPipedreams and With Heart and Voice. He was a guest faculty at the 2015 and 2016 Smarano International Academies in Trentino, Italy, the 2019 Colorado State University Organ Week, and has given masterclasses and presentations at several North American universities and conservatories. 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 recipient of the school’s Jerald C. Graue Musicology Fellowship. He is also a Gold Medal graduate of the University of Western Ontario, where he studied with Larry Cortner and Sandra Mangsen, and his post-graduate teachers include Roberta Gary in Cincinnati and Jean-Baptiste Robin in Versailles, France. Formerly Director of Music at the Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester, NY, he is currently the organist of Cincinnati’s historic Isaac M. Wise – Plum Street Temple, and is a volunteer chorister in the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal), Cincinnati.