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Dr. Kim R. Kasling is Professor of Music, University Organist and Director of Liturgical Music Studies at Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.  He also serves as organist at the Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis, and coordinates the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University Arts Series in the Twin Cities.  Dr. Kasling was formerly on the faculties of Mankato State University and Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo.

Kasling holds a B.S. degree from the State University of New York at Potsdam, a M.M. from Indiana University and the A.Mus.D. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

He was a Fullbright Scholar under Anton Heiller for two years at the Hochschule fur Musik, Vienna, Austria.  In fall of 1985, while teaching at the University of Salzburg, Kasling studied performance practices in Salzburg and Vienna.  In winter/spring 1986, he was a student at the North Germany Organ Academy, Ostfrieslaned, West Germany.  His organ teachers include Anton Heiller, Harald Vogel, Marilyn Mason, Raymond Daveluy and James Autenrith.

The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Dr. Kasling has toured widely, appearing in over 100 recitals in the past ten years.  In addition to concerts in the United States, he has performed with critical acclaim in Canada, Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Finland, Holland and Poland.  His articles have appeared in The Diapason, The Tracker, and The American Music Teacher, along with reviews in Worship magazine.  He has recorded on the Liturgical Press label and is frequently heard in the United States and Europe.

Dr. Kasling has led student tours of historic European organs.  He has adjudicated state and national organ playing competitions, and has been national committee chair for the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, as well as former Province Governor of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

Dr. Kasling's CD, "L'Orgue Mystique" on the Sonus Luxque label, was featured nationally on public radio's "Pipedreams" program on November 8, 1996.

Recently he was interviewed in September 2000 for USA Today; European concert tour in January 2001, co-director, Wil Russell Sacred Arts Festival, San Anselmo, California, 1998-present; submitted September 1, 2002, two articles for publication in Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart; contracted to teach master class in organ and service playing by Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam New York, offered in Summer 2004.