John-Paul Buzard, Founder, President and Artistic Director
Dave Brown, Service Department Shop Manager
John-Paul Buzard, Founder, President and Artistic Director --Biographical Information
Phillip S. Campbell, Chief Financial Officer --Biographical Information
Brian K. Davis, Tonal Director --Biographical Information
Stephen Downes, Tonal Assistant
Dan Meyer, Tonal Assistant
Charles Eames, Executive Vice President --Biographical Information
John Jordan, Service Technician
C. Robert Leach, Cabinet Maker
Stuart Martin, Cabinet Maker
Jenaiah Michael, Receptionist
Jay Salmon, Office Manager and Keeper of the Corporate Zen
Lyosha Svinarski, Cabinet Maker
Stuart Weber, Service Technician
John Wiegand, Service Technician
Ray Wiggs, Console & Chest Construction and Wiring
Keith Williams, Service Department Director and Associate for Sales --Biographical Information
Biographical Information
John-Paul Buzard is president and artistic director of Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, based in Champaign, Illinois. He began his career in organbuilding by working as an apprentice organ technician in high school and college. He was appointed Curator of Organs for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign following graduate school, and began to lay the groundwork for his company through organ-building and restoration projects in the Champaign area. Realizing a life-long dream, he founded the Buzard organ company in 1985. Mr. Buzard continues as Curator of Organs for the University of Illinois, and also serves as Curator of Organs for MacMurray College, Illinois College, Indiana University, and DePauw University. He earned a Master's degree in organ and church music from Northwestern University, studying organ with Richard Enright and Wolfgang Rubsam, and also spent two years in the organ performance program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying organ with Jerald Hamilton. In addition, Mr. Buzard is a certified Master Organbuilder with the American Institute of Organbuilders (AIO), a member of the Associated Pipe Organ Builders of America (APOBA), and a member of the Worshipful Company of Musicians of the City of London.
Phillip S. Campbell is the Chief Financial Officer and a Manager Member. Mr. Campbell has guided the business entity of the company since its inception. He has participated in all areas of organ construction, maintenance, and service. He studied Organ and Piano Performance at the American Conservatory of Music and the University of Illinois. He is licensed as an Attorney and Counselor at Law in California. He has a Juris Doctor from Vermont Law School, a Master of Laws in Taxation from Golden Gate University, and an Master's Degree in Commerce and Business Administration from the University of Illinois.
Brian K. Davis is the Tonal Director, Head Voicer, and Manager Member of Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, LLC, from 1995 to present. He is a member and fellow of the American Institute of Organbuilders and the American Iris Society. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in Music in 1987. He has previously worked for Miller Pipe Organ Company, Independent Organ Projects, and Visser-Rowland Associates. Mr. Davis directs his associates in the Tonal Department in all aspects of organ pipe preparation, voicing, and racking in the instruments under construction. Mr. Davis personally voices all the pipes for every one of our new organs. Mr. Davis scales the pipework in conjunction with Mr. Buzard, and personally supervises our pipe makers in Holland, Germany, and the U.S. in all aspects of pipe making to our high proprietary standards. On site, Mr. Davis and Mr. Buzard accomplish the finish-voicing. Mr. Davis is also responsible for the tonal direction in voicing projects for extant organs which we are asked to undertake from time to time. Mr. Davis also grows and hybridizes prize-winning Iris in his Champaign garden.
Charles Eames is Executive Vice-President, General Manager, and Manager Member of
Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, LLC, from 1994 to present. He is a member of the American American Institute of Organbuilders, the American Guild of Organists, and the Organ Historical Society. He holds degrees from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, 1972, and William Jewell College in Organ Performance, 1970. He has experience at Charles McManis Organbuilders, Visser-Rowland Associates, and St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas. Mr. Eames engineers every one of our pipe organs, oversees construction in the shop, and every installation. His responsibilities include development of working drawings from the visual renderings developed by Mr. Buzard, mechanical design and fabrication of every component part in the organ, overseeing of production timeline and cost, communication with our clients' architects and builders, and coordination of every aspect of the organ with the Tonal Department. Mr. Eames supervises every installation, and directs our staff on-site for efficacious and timely completion of every project. Mr. Eames has personally built or supervised the building of 100 pipe organs during his career.
Keith Williams is the Service Department Director and an Associate in Marketing and Sales with Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, LLC, since 2000. He is a member of the American Institute of Organbuilders, the American Guild of Organists, and the Organ Historical Society. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in Organ Performance, 1976. He has previous experience with Carey Organ Company, Emma Willard School, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the College of St. Rose, and St. John Lutheran Church. Mr. Williams directs our staff of technicians in all aspects of maintenance, tuning, restoration and rebuilding of extant organs. By virtue of his wealth of understanding of historical instruments, and his experience as a church organist and recitalist, Mr. Williams is a valuable member of the Project Team during our in-house discussions of how to best restore portions of existing instruments which may be retained in new work from time to time, and how our style embraces the literature and the Liturgical uses to which our instruments will be put.