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Saint Michael's Church
October 21, 2007 - Douglas Major with William Kendall
Sundays at 5:00 p.m. |
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We welcome you to join us for a distinguished series of organ recitals at historic St. Michael's Church. Built in 1714, the church is home to the 22-stop 1975 Charles Fisk mechanical action organ, and it enjoys an acoustical space that is ideal for organ music. Our artists have chosen programs that range from the 18th cnetury tradition of Bach and his contemporaries as well as works by living composers.
Douglas Major - October 21, 2007
Douglas Major was Organist and choirmaster at Washington National Cathedral from 1988 - 2001, and joined the staff of St. Michael's Church in January of 2003. His recital career has taken him all over the world and to 45 of the 50 US states. His recordings include 6 solo organ CDs as well as recordings with the Empire Brass Quintet. He lives in Rockport, MA and in addition to his work in Marblehead, works as a omposer and teacher.
John Skelton - November 18, 2007
John Skelton, a native New Englander, received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music. he studied with Donald Willing and Daniel Pinkham, and in Vienna with Anton Heiller. He has performed at conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical society. For the past 24 years, he has been Director of Music at Maple Street Congregational Church in Danvers. He has taught organ at the University of New Hapshire and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Skelton is a trustee of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall, home of an internationally renowed organ recital series, and since 1983 has been chairman of the Program Committee.
Leonardo Ciampa - February 17, 2008
Born in 1971, Leonardo Ciampa is one of the most versatile and talented musicians of his generation. he is a composer, organist, author, pianist, and a respected coach for Italian opera. Ciampa's compositions include "Suite Siciliana" for two violins, piano, and orchestra; a Concerto for Piano & Organ, four Organ Symphonies, a piano quintet, and a large body of sacred choral music. As an organ recitalist, Ciampa has made six European tours encompassing italy, austria, and Germany. In the 1990s he recorded two CDs on the 1859 E. & G. G. Hook organ (destroyed by fire in 2005) at First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain. A third disc, recorded on the Frobenius organ at First Church in Cambridge, will be released shortly.
Stuart Forster - April 20, 2008
A dedicated church musician, Stuart Forster has been Director of Music and Organist at Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1999. After study and several appointments in his native Sydney, Australia, Mr. Forster traveled to the United States in 1996 to study with Thomas Murray, earning two degrees from Yale University as well as the Faculty Prize, the Robert S. Baker Scholarship from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and the Julia R. Sherman Prize for Excellence in organ playing. In addition to solo organ performances throughout both hemispheres, Mr. Forster's work as organist, conductor, composer, arranger, and musicologist has been published, recorded and broadcast around the world, including his landmark organ transcription of Dvorak's Ninth symphony "From the New World."
Rosalind Mohnson - May 11, 2008
Rosalind Mohnson has performed throughout the U. S. and in Latvia and Sweden. Active in the Organ Historical Society, she has performed for nineteen of their national conventions. Ms Mohnson studied at the University of Nebraska, Indiana University, and in Paris with Jean Langlais. She is in her 25th year as Director of Music and Organist for Immaculate Conception Parish of Malden-Medford, Massachusetts.
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