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Edward Eicker holds both an M.A. (2002) and a B.M. (1999) from Roosevelt University in Chicago. His principal teachers have included organists David Schrader and Samuel Soria and composers, Stacy Garrop, Patricia Morehead and Don Malone.
In 2000, he won first prize in the "Virginia and Seymour LaRock Composition Contest" for his acapella choral work, "Banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden." In 2003, Mr. Eicker conducted Roosevelt University’s New Music Ensemble in the premier performance of his chamber work, "States of Mind: A Suite of Emotional Miniatures." In that same year, his "Ave Maria" received a reading by the Chicago Chapter of the American Composers Forum. In October of 2003 his collection of chorale preludes, "To the Point: Short Preludes for Organ" was published by Augsburg Fortress and sold over 700 copies in its first six months in print.
Besides being an active composer and arranger, Mr. Eicker currently teaches general music at Swift Specialty School in Chicago and serves as the Assistant Director of Music at Immaculate Conception Church, also in Chicago.
Edward Eicker’s organ music is published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. For more information, go to Augsburg’s website:http://www.augsburgfortress.org.