Earline Moulder
University Organist, Piano and Organ

B.A. Drury University M.M. Indiana University D.M.A. University of Kansas 150 Clara Thompson Hall 417-873-7376

Earline Moulder teaches organ and is university organist at Drury University where she received degrees in music, biology and French. She holds a master's degree in music from Indiana University and a doctorate from the University of Kansas. She studied piano with Sulima Stravinsky and in Paris, organ with André Marchal. As a concert organist, she has performed in the Middle East, Europe, Australia, and the United States in such places as Washington, D.C. and the United States Air Force Academy. As a journalist in the U.S. Navy Reserve, she was guest organist on Treasure Island, California. Upcoming recitals in America are scheduled for Boston, Chicago, and New York City. Memorable performances include those in the Netherlands: Westerkerk in Amsterdam where Rembrandt is entombed, the Hague, Arnhem ("A Bridge too Far") and in Oosterbeek, at the Goede Herderkerk, opposite the hotel taken as headquarters by the Germans in World War II. In Germany, she has performed at the State Church in Darmstadt and in Hamburg, in Christianskirche where her ancestral aunt, author Meta Moller is buried next to her husband, poet Friedrich Klopstock. Dr. Moulder and her husband, David Plank, a civil engineer, live part-time in Paris in an apartment at equal distances between St-Germain-des-Prés Church (where she "debuted" while studying with Marchal) and the Church of St-Sulpice. In May 2002 Moulder played a recital at St-Augustin in Paris and is scheduled to play at the Madeleine Church in 2003. In June 2002, in London, she gave three recitals during the week of the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

Stone Chapel Organ

The recently restored Lyon-Healy pipe organ in Drury's Stone Chapel dates from 1907.  The three-manual, 30-rank instrument in the historic chapel is utilized by a large class of organ students, for weekend weddings, for the popular Christmas Vespers, and for recitals and other special events in the Chapel. The organ is especially noted for its rich strings and the newly-installed 16' pedal Posaune, as well as for its acoustical clarity in the stained-glass sanctuary.