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As a performer-scholar Randall Harlow's interests range from empirical performance research to the Inuit organ tradition as well as organ transcription repertoire and the 21st-century avant-garde. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music in addition to graduate and undergraduate degrees from Indiana and Emory Universities. His principle teachers have included Hans Davidsson, Timothy Albrecht, Christopher Young and William Porter in improvisation. Additional study has included summer organ academies in Canada, Sweden, and England, while international performances have taken him to England, Russia, and Greenland.
Randall Harlow maintains an intense focus as a performer on contemporary music and currently serves on the national New Music Committee of the American Guild of Organists. His numerous World and North American premieres include compositions by Stephen Ingham, John Anthony Lennon, Ron Nagorcka, Sven-David Sandström, Kaikhosru Sorabji, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, among others. Also an avid performer with orchestra, Randall Harlow has performed concertos by Lou Harrison and Chen Yi as well as the North American premieres of organ concertos by Petr Eben, Tilo Medek, and Giles Swayne. He is also a leading pioneer in promoting electroacoustic composition for the organ, including premieres of groundbreaking works for organ with live-electronic processing by Steve Everett and René Uijlenhoet and and upcoming works by Eastman and Cornell composers.
Recent research projects include the first comprehensive documentation and study of the pipe organ culture of Greenland. Randall Harlow's presentations at conferences of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, the Göteborg International Organ Academy, and the Eastman Rochester Organ Iniviative Festival have explored empirical haptics and psychohaptics keyboard research. His doctoral thesis focused on recent experimental organ design, with a prospectus for new design dimensions relevant to 21st Century composition. Randall Harlow has taught organ performance and music theory at Nazareth College, the Eastman School of Music, the University of Rochester, and Indiana University. He currently teaches organ at Cornell University where he is on faculty in the Department of Music for the 2011-12 academic year.
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