Pamela Decker, organist and composer, performed her first solo recital at the age of thirteen; since that time she has been active as a solo recitalist accompanist, composer, teacher, and church musician. She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ performance, with emphasis also in composition, from Stanford University. During her doctoral study she was awarded a Fulbright Grant for study of organ and composition in Luebeck, West Germany. While in Germany she worked in both areas at the Musikhochschule Luebeck and was invited to perform in many venues. The Norddeutscher Rundfunk, or North German Radio, recorded and broadcast a recording of her performance of her work Passacaglia (for organ) at the Luebeck Cathedral.

Dr. Decker is Professor of Organ/Music Theory at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. She also serves as organist at Grace St. Paul’s Church in Tucson.

Compositions by Pamela Decker have been performed by American, Canadian, European, and Australian artists in at least eighteen countries. She has had performances of her works in Moscow, Paris, Hamburg, London, and Vienna; there have been performances in the United States too numerous to list. Her keyboard works have been performed at national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists and in many other festivals and conferences. There are commercial recordings of her works on the Albany, Loft, Arkay, Gothic, ReZound (Loft), and Arktos labels. Loft recently released the first CD of a series presenting Pamela Decker performing her own organ works.

Pamela Decker’s activities as a performer include solo recitals and ensemble appearances in churches, cathedrals, and concert halls in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Baltic region, involving such locations as Grace Cathedral, University of Michigan, University of Iowa, Hauptkirche St. Petri in Hamburg, the Nigulistekirikus in Tallinn, Estonia, and two national conventions of the American Guild of Organists.