{"id":1404,"date":"2013-07-01T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T19:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/07\/01\/pajan-wins-top-honors-at-competition\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:50:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:50:42","slug":"pajan-wins-top-honors-at-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/pajan-wins-top-honors-at-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Pajan wins top honors at competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Pajan, a 2008 Furman music graduate, has won top honors at one of the largest international organ competitions in the world. Pajan won second place at the Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition, which challenges students to learn the intricacies of a 10,010-pipe Aeolian organ. His presentation earned him the $15,000 Firmin Swinnen Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Pajan is pursuing a doctorate at the University of Oklahoma in musical arts for organ with church music emphasis. He studied under music professor Charles Tompkins while attending Furman.<\/p>\n<p>Pajan won first prize at the 2011 Arthur Poister Organ Scholarship Competition and the 2009 Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition USA.\u00a0 He was also a semifinalist in the American Guild of Organists\u2019 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance in May 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/normantranscript.com\/headlines\/x1696414564\/OU-s-Pajan-earns-runner-up-in-international-organ-contest\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Pajan, a 2008 Furman music graduate, has won top honors at one of the largest international organ competitions in the world. Pajan won second place at the Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition, which challenges students to learn the intricacies of a 10,010-pipe Aeolian organ. His presentation earned him the $15,000 Firmin Swinnen Prize. Pajan, who is pursuing a doctorate at the University of Oklahoma in musical arts for organ,\u00a0studied under professor Charles Tompkins while attending Furman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}