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Max H. Yount (1963)
Professor Department Chair 
B.A. Oberlin College Max H. Yount, organist, harpsichordist and composer, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at Beloit College where he teaches music history and theory of all levels, organ, harpsichord and composition. As the permanent harpsichordist of the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, he regularly coaches student ensembles. He has taught courses in Eastern European Folk Music, Women in Music, and American music. As past Dean of the American Guild of organists, Madison chapter, and past President of the Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society (MHKS), he has presented many recitals and papers at meetings of the latter and at the American Musicological Society, Midwest Chapter. He has made several concert tours of Germany as organist and harpsichordist. At home his many performances as soloist and in ensemble have recently included concertos (Bach’s Fifth Brandenburg, and Poulenc’s Concert Champêtre) with area orchestras. Yount is Director of Music and organist of First Congregational Church in Beloit. Recent compositions have included Duo for violin and harpsichord, performed at the MHKS meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota in April 2007; Symphony in Three Movements, performed by the Beloit Janesville Symphony Orchestra in March 2007; three pieces premiered in January 2006, including Concerto for harpsichord, broadcast over Wisconsin Public Radio; and Sonata for flute, gamba and harpsichord performed at the MHKS meeting At Northwestern University in 2004. A new organ work, Our God, Our Help, is planned for premier performance in October 2007. Yount is proficient in German, and he directed the Beloit College German Seminar in Hamburg in 1986. Contact Max Yount at: Max Yount |