Experience, Professional Engagement, and a Passionate Commitment to Teaching
Our internationally recognized faculty bring a wealth of experience, talent, and wisdom to the department. In addition to their work at the Jacobs School, they are active on the national and international stages as recitalists, teachers, lecturers, and recording artists.
Janette Fishell
Professor of Music (Organ); Chair, Organ Department
Areas of instruction: Applied organ at all degree levels; Organ Pedagogy and Organ Pedagogy Practicum, Graduate Selected Topics in Organ Literature and Performance Practice
Phone: 812-855-3969
Email: jfishell@indiana.edu
Office: East Studio Building, JS222
Videos:
Prof. Dr. Janette Fishell at the Eberhard Friedrich Walcker organ in Neuhausen auf den Fildern, Germany, interivew and performance of works from Robert Schumann, Studien für den Pedalflügel op. 56, and from Dudley Buck the Concert variations on the “The star-spangled banner” Op. 23.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA8FnyAqE0A&feature=youtu.be
More recordings can be found under the Media tab at: http://janettefishell.com/index.htm
Jeffrey Smith
Professor of Practice
Areas of instruction: Applied organ at all degree levels; Sacred Music core curriculum, Compline Director.
Email: js72@iu.edu
Videos:
Back home again in Indiana: Organ Improvisation by Jeffrey Smith
Humbly I adore thee (Adoro te devote): Organ Improvisation by Jeffrey Smith
Ludger Lohmann, Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2025-2027
Areas of instruction: Applied organ, Colloquium, Selected Topics in Organ Literature and Performance Practice
Jesse Eschbach, Visiting Professor, Fall 2025
Areas of instruction: Applied organ, Colloquium, Selected Topics in Organ Literature and Performance Practice
David Schrader, Visiting Professor, Spring 2026
Areas of instruction: Applied organ, Colloquium, Selected Topics in Organ Literature and Performance Practice
Sarah Moon Stamey, Adjunct Instructor
Area of instruction: Survey of Organ Literature
Hayden Ives-Glasgow, Associate Instructor of Organ
Elijah Buerk, Associate Instructor of Carillon
Andrew Jirele, Curator of University Organs and Carillons
Organ Professors at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music
George Wilson (19??-1975; Professor Emeritus, 1975)
Oswald G. Ragatz (1942-1983; Professor Emeritus, 1983)
Robert Rayfield (1963-1990; Professor Emeritus, 1990)
Clyde Holloway (1965-1977)
Wilma Jensen (1977-1981)
Larry Smith (1981-2008; Professor Emeritus, 2008)
Marilyn Keiser (1983-2008; Chancellor’s Professor Emerita, 2008)
Christopher Young (1991-2025, Professor Emeritus, 2025)
John Schwandt (2002-2006)
Todd Wilson (2008-2009)
Janette Fishell (since 2008)
Jeffrey Smith (Visiting, 2009-2011)
Bruce Neswick (2011-2015)
Douglas Reed (Visiting, 2015-2017)
Vincent Carr (2017-2021)
Jeffrey Smith (since 2021 Professor of Practice)