Joan Lippincott
American concert organist
Joan Lippincott (December 25, 1935 – May 31, 2025) was an American concert organist and head of the organ department at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.
Life and career
Lippincott was born Joan Edna Hult on December 25, 1935, the daughter of Edna and Frank Hult, in Kearny, New Jersey. Her early keyboard studies were with William Jancovius of Nutley, New Jersey. After attending Kearny High School, she entered Westminster Choir College, where she studied with the renowned Alexander McCurdy. Upon graduation from Westminster, she gained entrance to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was again the student of McCurdy as well as Vladimir Sokoloff. Following her Diploma from the Curtis Institute, she returned to Westminster Choir College to earn her master's degree. At the same time, McCurdy hired her to join the Westminster keyboard faculty, starting what would become her 37-year tenure there.
On June 18, 1960, she married Curtis Lippincott in Bristol Chapel on the Westminster campus. At the age of 31 in 1967, she became the head of the Organ Department at Westminster Choir College, the largest organ department in the world at the time, where she would teach hundreds of student organists over the years. In 1993 she accepted a position as the Principal Organist at Princeton University Chapel, with its freshly rebuilt instrument, while retaining her position at Westminster.
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