Jeff Weiler is passionate about the conservation and restoration of pipe organs, and has been actively engaged in organbuilding and restoration for over 25 years. A graduate of Northwestern University with a Master of Music degree, Weiler has authored articles and reviews that have appeared in Theatre Organ, The Diapason, The American Organist, Choir and Organ and In League. His commentaries on pipe organ related subjects have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and over National Public Radio. Weiler has been retained as consultant and project manager by numerous churches, universities, and symphony orchestras to survey, plan, and oversee a wide variety of pipe organ projects. He designed and supervised the installation of the new organ for the Chicago Symphony where he remains as organ curator, the renovation and installation of the 100-rank Jacksonville Symphony organ, and assisted with initial planning and fundraising for the Cleveland Orchestra’s organ project.

Weiler has served multiple terms as an officer of both the American Institute of Organbuilders and the American Theatre Organ Society while maintaining a national practice as an organ voicer and tonal finisher.  Jeff assembled and edited the 800-page book, The Wurlitzer Pipe Organ: An Illustrated History, published by the American Theatre Organ Society and serves as editor of The Journal of American Organbuilding, published by the American Institute of Organbuilders and Theatre Organ, the journal of the American Theatre Society Weiler has presented lectures on historic organs, organbuilders, and restoration at several national conventions of the Organ Historical Society, American Guild of Organists, and the American Theatre Organ Society. He also serves on the Organ Historical Society’s committee on organ restoration practices and policies.

Recent work includes the tonal restoration of the Aeolian-Skinner organs at the Groton School, the Church of the Advent, Boston, and Calvary Episcopal Church, Memphis, Tennessee––all in regular collaboration with Jonathan Ambrosino; restoration and tonal finishing of vintage pipework for Nelson Barden & Associates, the restoration of the Skinner organ (Opus 528) at First United Methodist Church, Oak Park, Illinois, in collaboration with Spencer Organ Company, Inc., and the restoration of the Skinner organ (Opus 208) at the Music Institute of Chicago. Among other projects, Weiler is presently working on a careful historic restoration of Wurlitzer Opus 1097, originally installed in the Howard/Paramount Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia in 1925.

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