Un-Young Whang, a native of South Korea, earned her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in piano performance at the Juilliard School in New York.  She continued her studies at Teachers College, Columbia University, earning Master of Education and Doctor of Education degrees.  Dr. Whang joined the Music Faculty of the Moody Bible Institute in 1987 and is a Professor of Music, teaching piano, music theory, piano pedagogy, and early childhood music ministries.

Elizabeth Naegele took her first music lessons on a pump organ in the Congo, Africa (formerly Zaire), where her parents were missionaries.  Following graduation from the American High School of Kinshasa, Congo, she began classical organ study, first at Moody Bible Institute with Lillian Robinson and then with Corliss Arnold at Michigan State University.  In 1989, she completed doctoral studies in organ performance at Northwestern University where she was a student of Wolfgang Rübsam.  Since 1976, Dr. Naegele has been a member of the faculty at Moody Bible Institute, where she is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Organ Instruction and Ethnomusicology.

The program will include C.P.E. Bach’s Spieluhrenstücke (Pieces for an Organ Clock), Oon Yung La’s The Lord is My Shepherd, Edwin T. Childs’ Hymns and Spirituals for Manuals Only, and David Smart’s Variations on A-Ri-Rang, a work composed for Ms. Whang.