Kenneth Logan is associate professor of music at Andrews University, where he teaches organ and topics in organ studies, church music and music technology. He also serves as organist and Minister of Music at AU's Pioneer Memorial Church. He has been at AU since 1996.

Logan, a native of Maryland, began his teaching career as director of music at Highland View Academy. He subsequently served as interim full-time organist and teacher at Walla Walla College from 1991 to 93, and as professor of keyboard, music history, and theory at Canadian University College from 1993 to 1996. While at CUC, he was responsible for bringing about the installation of a 45 rank Casavant organ in the university church.

A published handbell music composer (Augsburg Fortress, 1991), Logan has directed a number of handbell choirs during his career. Known for his creative hymn playing and arrangements, he won first place in the Staley Organ and Hymn-playing Competition during the 1997 annual Organ Conference at the University of Michigan. For the competition, the six finalists played Flourish and Chorale by McCabe and were judged on how well their playing led a singing audience of 200 in the competition hymn, At Pentecost They Gathered. Considerations included the organists' creativity and musical illustration of the hymn's text.

Logan completed a B.Mus. degree in piano performance with honors in 1980 at AU, and an M.Mus. at AU in organ performance in 1984, under C. Warren Becker. He received a DMA in organ performance with honors at UM in 1992, where he studied organ with Marilyn Mason.

While doing graduate study at UM, Logan held several research and teaching positions in organ and theory. He helped develop curriculum associated with graduate courses in the organ music of Franz Liszt and Olivier Messiaen. In 1988, he began an extensive study of poetic texts used in American sacred music to 1810, working with eminent American musicologist Richard Crawford.

Logan has a special interest in the chorale-based literature of the German Baroque and organ music of late 19^th and 20^th century Paris. He has an ongoing interest in free and hymn-based organ improvisation and its power to unify and invigorate congregational singing.

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