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Jean-Willy Kunz : Pipe dreams do come true
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If, as Mark Twain said here in 1881, you can’t throw a brick in Montreal without breaking a church window, it must be equally true that you can’t go very far in this once very religious city without stumbling across a pipe organ. And often a damned good one.
Which is what brought Jean-Willy Kunz to Montreal in 2004 at the fairly tender age of 24 – where, in 2006, he began his doctorate in organ performance under Professor (now Emeritus) John Grew at McGill. And where, three years ago, he was named the first Organist in Residence with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.
Read Doug Sweet's full article about Jean-Willy Kunz in the McGill Reporter.