Events

The lunch time recital series of First United Methodist Church, Lincoln returns with two wonderful free 30 minute lunch time recitals and free lunch featuring musicians from First Church and Nebraska Wesleyan University. Friday, March 8 at 1pm come hear the Sanctuary Brass of First Church along with guest organist, Dick Morris, soprano Marina McCreary, and Professor Dean Haist, all share classical and sacred music. Friday, May 10 at Noon, come swing along with Curtis Moeller, piano and Brent Shaw, organ as they share Gershwin’s beloved Rhapsody in Blue. Guest, Dr. Jana Holzmeier, will...

Renowned international concert organist Christopher Herrick returns to Edmonton to play a concert on the 3-manual newly-renovated Casavant organ at All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral. Mr. Herrick has played several times in Edmonton, including a solo organ concert where he debuted the Winspear Centre organ in 2002 to a sell-out audience. He subsequently came to record his “Organ Fireworks X” CD in the Winspear Centre, which includes a duet with Edmonton’s own Jeremy Spurgeon. A British virtuoso, Mr. Herrick has enjoyed a highly successful international career as a freelance concert organist...

Press Release 14 February, 2012 Contact: Michael Conrady, Recital Series Chair (rtaseries@gmail.com) Benjamin Kolodziej, Dean (bkolodzi@smu.edu) www.dallasago.org The Robert T Anderson Recital Series of the Dallas Chapter—American Guild of Organists, presents organist Tom Trenney in concert on Tuesday, 13 March, 2012, at 8pm at Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas. Tom Trenney serves as Minister of Music to First-Plymouth Congregational Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he leads a vibrant music ministry. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music, he...

On Monday July 11, Scott Dettra, Organist and Associate Director of Music at the Washington National Cathedral, takes the console. Dettra has performed extensively throughout the Unites States at American Guild of Organists conventions as well as concerts at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Arizona Bach Festival, the Bermuda Music Festival and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. He holds two degrees from Westminster Choir College and also studied jazz piano at the Manhattan School of Music. A San Diego Summer tradition since 1987, the Spreckels Organ Society presents the...

Works of Handel (Arrival of the Queen of Sheba) Merkel (Sonata for Two Organists, Strauss (Tritsch-Trasch Polka) and Wagner(Ride of the Valkyries. A native of Yorkshire, England, Max Kenworthy is a freelance organist, pianist, singer and choral conductor based in London. He began his musical career as a chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London and later studied music at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was also organ scholar. In 2002 Max was appointed Assistant Director of Music at Wellington Cathedral, a post he held for five years before going freelance. During this time he rekindled...

Program: The Lark Ascending by R. Vaughan Williams, Tzigand, Rapsodie de concert, by Maurice Ravel. Violinist Kyoungwoon Leah Kim, former associate concertmaster of the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra (Korea), has won numerous competitions, awards and recognition as a soloist: including a live broadcast on WQXR (New York Times Radio Station) for the Young Artist Program with Paganini Concerto no2, and a feature article in STRAD Asia. Ms. Kim was finalist at Jean Francaix International Competition in Paris, and winner of Music Teacher’s National Association Competition as well as achieving the...

Doctor of Musical Arts recital Works by Buxtehude, Rossi, Cabanilles, Reincken, J.S. Bach, and Pepping

This recital will be performed by the winner of the 2004 Eva Christensen award (given to a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln).

Students and Faculty of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Organ Department perform Ned Rorem’s Organbooks I, II, and III and selections from the Quaker Reader The event is free and open to the public. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Westbrook Music Building Organ Studio Program: Quaker Reader 4. “There is a Spirit that Delights to do no Evil” – Angela Botsford 7. “A Secret Power” – David Brockman 8. “No Darkness at All” – Lisa Klinsky Organbook I 1. Fantasy – Gerald Holbrook 2. Episode – Quentin Faulkner 3. Song –...

At ORGAN POWER, a “Meet the Authors” event at Barnes & Noble, Craig Whitney will speak about his highly acclaimed book, “All the Stops.” Richard Torrence and Marshall Yaeger will represent “Virgil Fox (The Dish).” The presentation will be about 15 minutes long, followed by a question and answer session of 25 minutes. “Meet the Authors” follows a full day of activities sponsored by the New York City AGO Chapter for its annual Presidents’ Day Conference. Complete program information is available online at www.nycago.org