An internationally recognized organ solo artist, Douglas Major has toured throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East. From 1974 through the spring of 2002, he was Organist and Choirmaster of the Washington National Cathedral. He now lives in Salem, Mass., working as a composer of music for organ, synthesizer, choirs, and chamber ensembles, and also serves as Music Director of St. Michael’s Church in Marblehead. Works by Bach, Major, and others

Christian Lane is Associate University Organist and Choirmaster at Harvard University. A laureate of several major competitions, he earned First Prize in four such American contests and was awarded both Second Prize and Audience Prize in the 2004 American Guild of Organists National Young Artist Competition. His primary teachers are David Higgs and Thomas Murray, and he holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Yale University. Passionate about commissioning new music and using the organ in collaborative settings, he has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. He has worked in some of the most prominent church music programs in the States, including as Assistant Organist to John Scott at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York. Increasingly in demand as a teacher, Mr. Lane serves as primary instructor to Harvard organ students and has served on the faculty of the Oundle for Organists program in England. Works by Bach, Buxtehude, Vierne, and George Shearing

Chris recently won a very prestigious organ playing competition in Canada. Read about it here.

Our next recital: Sunday February 19, 2012

Rosalind Mohnsen is Director of Music and Organist at Immaculate Conception Church in Malden, MA. She has performed in such venues as the National Shrine in Washington, D.C., Yale University, and City Hall in Portland, ME, for twenty national conventions of the Organ Historical Society, and in Latvia and Sweden. She served as Interim Organist and Director of Music at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, and has sung with Sharing a New Song Chorus on their tours of Cuba and Russia. Works by Franck, Gárdonyi, and Karg-Elert

John Russell is Professor Emeritus of Music at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. He received his undergraduate training at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music as an organ major, studying with Haskell Thomson. From 1974 through May 2008 he taught organ and music theory, in addition to his work with choral groups at Wooster. As Music Director and Conductor of The Wooster Chorus, Mr. Russell made 29 annual concert tours including concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, as well as throughout the U.S., from New England to California and the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Russell has concertized widely having presented recitals at the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University, Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Middlebury College, Kenyan College, and at numerous churches in the Midwest and in eastern U.S. Mr. Russell is currently Organist and Director of Music at Christ Church of Hamilton & Wenham. The program, entitled "Bach and Friends, will include works by J. S. Bach, Nickolaus Bruhns, Paul Hindemith, and others