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Professor in the Practice of Organ and University Organist. A graduate of Occidental College, Professor Murray has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1981, was appointed University organist in 1990, and is chair of the program in organ. Successor to Charles Krigbaum and Robert Baker as the senior professor of organ, he teaches the Organ Literature Seminar and gives instruction to graduate organ majors. His performing career has taken him to all parts of Europe and to Japan, Australia, and Argentina. He has appeared as a soloist with the Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and New Haven symphony orchestras, the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra during their tour of Finland in 1996.
The American Guild of Organists named him International Performer of the Year in 1986; as a recipient of this distinction he joined such luminaries as Marie-Claire Alain, Jean Guillou, and Dame Gillian Weir. The Royal College of Organists in England awarded him an FRCO diploma honoris causa in 2003. At the School of Music commencement in 2005 he was awarded the Gustave Stoeckel Award for distinguished teaching.