Zarex Corporation - a privately held Indiana Corporation - was established in 1995 by Frederick Hohman, a leading American concert organist and
an audio producer / engineer. Hohman's experience includesover a decade at the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester, New York), where he earned the Performer's Certificate, Mus.B. [distinction], M.M. and D.M.A. degrees. Zarex was formed to serve the business needs of the Pro Organo CD label. Pro Organo was established as a commerical, classical music recording label in 1984, and is now wholly-owned and administered by Zarex.
Zarex Corporation has nothing to do with the chocolate soft drink by the name of Zarex that was first popular in New England in the mid to late 20th-century. Zarex Corporation takes its name from one of the many muses that interacted with Apollo in Greek mythology. The character named Zarex was "the messenger of music" and would deliver messages in song upon arriving at his destination. Since audio recordings of music are modern-day objects that serve much the same function, bringing music to the recipient, Zarex was chosen when the Pro Organo label was given a corporate identity.
Zarex expanded to TV program production in 1996, with the Midnight Pipes tv series (1996-2000). Series excerpts from Zarex's Midnight Pipes series are posted for archival viewing
at YouTube). Production and post-production of the series was handled by Zarex HD studio. Zarex HD completed its studio upgrade to new HDTV broadcast standards in 2007.
In 2004, Zarex announced the publication of a short series of organ music scores, which are available under the brand name Zarex Scores.
In 2008, Zarex diversified further, with an attempt to develop new products that would apply latest technologies to organ building, allowing expansion of function and greater efficiency in the consoles and switching systems of modern pipe organs. The resulting line of products, branded under the "Pipewave™" trademark, are in intermediate stages of development in 2011, and are expected to be introduced to the organ-building trade by 2014.
Concert appearances by organist Frederick Hohman, and occasionally the concert apperances of other artists who have appeared on Pro Organo label releases, are administered through the auspices of Zarex Corporation.
Zarex, Pro Organo, Pipewave and Midnight Pipes
are trademarks of Zarex Corporation.
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Midnight Pipes