Organ Department Events
Tuesday, April 1, 8:00 pm
DMA Recital: Naomi Gregory
Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Avenue [directions]
Works by Bolcom, Bach, Franck, and Ludwig Thiele.
Sunday, April 6, 4:00 pm
EROI Community Recital*
Anne Lam & Bogna McGarrigle
Zion Episcopal Church, 120 East Main Street, Palmyra [directions]
Tuesday, April 8, 8:30 pm
MM Recital: Tiffany Ng
Downtown United Presbyterian Church [directions]
Works by Buxtehude, Bach, and Franck, and the world premiere of Andantino Lacrimoso by Belgian composer Geert D'hollander.
Friday, April 11, 7:00 pm
EROI Community Recital* with dinner!
Brett Judson, Fredrik Tobin, & Michael Goodman
Salem United Church of Christ, 60 Bittner Street [directions]
Sunday, April 13, 4:00 pm
EROI Community Recital*
Daniel Aune & Brett Judson
Saint Anne Church, 1600 Mt. Hope Avenue [directions]
Tuesday, April 15, 8:30 pm
DMA Recital: Ryan Enright
Downtown United Presbyterian Church [directions]
Charles-Marie Widor's Sixth Symphony, Ad Wammes's Miroir, and Messiaen's Le Mystère de la Sainte-Trinité (Les Corps Glorieux) and Offrande et Alléluia Final (Le Livre du St. Sacrement).
Thursday, April 17, 7:00 pm
MM Recital: David Bellows
Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Avenue [directions]
Friday, April 18, 7:30 pm
EROI Community Recital*
Jonathan Ortloff, Nicole Marane, & Fredrik Tobin
Church of St. Luke and St. Simon Cyrene, 17 Fitzhugh St S. [directions]
Monday, April 21, 7:00 pm
MM Recital: Annie Kaschube
Kilian and Caroline Schmitt Organ Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs St.
Mendelssohn, Pärt, Bach, and more.
Tuesday, April 22, 7:00 pm
Senior Recital: Jonathan Ortloff
Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Avenue [directions]
Thursday, April 24, 7:00 pm
DMA Recital: Daniel Aune
Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Avenue [directions]
Sunday, April 27, 5:00 pm
Junior Jury Recital: Amanda Mole
Downtown United Presbyterian Church [directions]
Works by Mozart, Bach, and others.
Tuesday, April 29, 8:00 pm
MM Recital: Bogna McGarrigle
Saint Anne Church, 1600 Mt. Hope Avenue [directions]
Thursday, May 1, 7:00 pm
MM Recital: JooSoo Son
Kilian and Caroline Schmitt Organ Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs St.
Friday, May 2, 7:00 pm
DMA Recital: Christopher Petit
Downtown United Presbyterian Church [directions]
Saturday, May 3, 2:00 pm
Junior Jury Recital: Mark Edwards
St. Paul's Episcopal Church [directions]
Saturday, May 3, 7:00 pm
DMA Recital: Michael Unger
St. Mary's Church, 15 St. Mary's Place [directions]
Sunday, May 4, 5:00 pm
DMA Lecture Recital: Rudy de Vos
Saint Anne Church, 1600 Mt. Hope Avenue [directions]
The Improvisations based on Gregorian Chant of Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)
Monday, May 5, 7:00 pm
MM Recital: David Baskeyfield
Downtown United Presbyterian Church [directions]
Works by J. S. Bach and César Franck, and an improvised four-movement symphony.
Wednesday, May 7, 2:00 pm
DMA Recital: Nicole Marane
Saint Anne Church, 1600 Mt. Hope Avenue [directions]
Works by Planyavsky, Brahms, Bach, Jongen, and Larsen.
Thursday, May 8, 7:00 pm
MM Recital: Anne Lam
Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Avenue [directions]
Anne plays the Trio Sonata No. 6 by Bach, Grand Pièce Symphonique by Franck, and movements from Vierne's Symphony No. 6.
Saturday, May 10, 2:00 pm
MM Recital: Thatcher Lyman
St. Michael's Church [directions]
Works by Bach, Buxtehude, Distler, Ligeti, and Marchand. The space is gorgeous, so you should come just to see that. The organ (Brombaugh Opus 9) is also gorgeous. The player... well... The church is at the corner of Clifford and Clinton. Parking off of Clifford Avenue or across the street at the Salvation Army.
The Organ in Society: Culture and Technology
Part of The Humanities Project. All events are free.
Tracing the Organ Masters' Secrets: The Art of Voicing Organ Pipes in Baroque Style
Lecture series featuring organ builder Munetaka Yokota, Artist in Residence
Friday, January 25, 4:00 pm - 5:30pm: Todd Union 202F (River Campus)
All subsequent lectures at Christ Church, 141 E. Main Street:
Friday, February 1, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Tuesday, February 5, 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Friday, February 8, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Friday, February 15, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Friday, March 28, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
This series of lectures is open to all faculty and students of the University of Rochester. The demonstrations will provide a unique opportunity for musicians and non-musicians alike to learn about the voicer's art and the many scientific factors that affect the sound of each pipe. The historic element of the project will interest scientists, historians, social scientists, and musicians alike as Mr. Yokota unlocks the musical instrument waiting to speak through the pipes.
Thursday, March 6, 1 pm - 3 pm
Symposium - Sound Aesthetics in the Late 18th Century: German Organ & Keyboard Culture
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library
Moderator: Celia Applegate. Panelists: Joel Speerstra, Munetaka Yokota, Johan Norrback, and Harald Vogel
The installation of a new research organ, modeled after the 1776 Casparini organ in Vilnius in Lithuania, in Christ Church Episcopal recreates a lost soundscape from the 18th century. This instrument will be discussed as cultural artifact and window onto Enlightenment technology by distinguished international guest scholars.
Friday, March 7, 7:00 pm
Harald Vogel in Concert: German Baroque Organ Music
Sacred Heart Cathedral, 296 Flower City Park [map]
Hear the 1972 historic John Brombaugh organ in concert at Sacred Heart Cathedral for the last time at this beautiful venue. The organ will thereafter be moved elsewhere. The recital features Harald Vogel, recognized as a leading authority on the interpretation of German organ music from the Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. As the director of the North German Organ Academy, which he founded in 1972, he teaches historical performance practice on original instruments. Since 1994, he has also held a professorship at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen. His many recordings include those on historical instruments made for Radio Bremen from 1961 to 1975. These recordings have particular value as historical documentation today.
Saturday, March 8, 1 pm - 3 pm
Saturday, March 29, 2 pm - 5 pm
Open House at Christ Church
Visit the new eighteenth-century-style organ under construction in Christ Church, just steps away from Eastman. Hear the ten new beautiful organ stops and see a demonstration of the gilding of the elaborate woodwork. You do not want to miss seeing the progress of the work on this landmark instrument!
Saturday, March 29
Contemporary Organ Music Festival
The 1960s Organ Avant-Garde: The Cancelled Radio Bremen Concert
Interfaith Chapel at the University of Rochester, Wilson Boulevard
5:30 pm: Pre-concert talk by Dr. Matthew Suttor (Yale University)
Suttor brings to life the cultural context of the three seminal organ works commissioned by Radio Bremen in 1962. His talk offers perspectives on contemporary organ music and the technology and culture that generated the organ avant-garde in the 1960s.
6:30 pm: Reception with Dr. Suttor
7 pm: The Cancelled Concert. Eastman organ student Randall Harlow gives the first complete American performance of the milestone 1962 Radio Bremen program that changed organ repertoire forever.
In 1962, Radio Bremen commissioned three new organ works from leading composers György Ligeti, Bengt Hambraeus, and Mauricio Kagel, in order to develop new ways of composing for the instrument. Could the organ finally take its place in the mid-20th-century contemporary music scene? The new works were to be premiered in the cathedral in Bremen in May, but when the Bauherren (Church Council) and the clergy learnt of the avant-garde character of the program, they refused to host the concert. Instead, the works were recorded at two organs in Sweden and the premier was moved to the Bremen Concert Hall, where listeners could experience it through a sound system. This concert features the works of the 1962 Cancelled Concert in Bremen for the first time in the United States: Interferenzen by Hambraeus, Volumina by Ligeti, and Improvisation adjoutée by Kagel.
Sunday, March 30, 5:00 pm
New Polish and Lithuanian Organ Music
Bogna McGarrigle, Randall Harlow, and Ruth Draper
St. Mary's Church, 15 St. Mary's Place [directions]
Works by Marian Sawa, Henryk Górecki, Arunas Navakas, and Teisutis Makacinas on the E.M. Skinner organ.
Italian Baroque Organ Showcase
5:30 pm at the Memorial Art Gallery
tickets $12 (students $8), cash or check only
Friday, January 18 at 7:30 pm (note different time), and Sunday, January 20 at 5:30 pm
Italians in the Fountain Court - sold out!
In conjunction with Pegasus Early Music
Renowned musicians Robert Mealy (Baroque violin), Lisa Terry (viola da gamba), William Porter (organ), and
Deborah Fox (theorbo) perform virtuoso chamber music by Buxtehude -- who wasn't really Italian -- and other real Italians
of the 17th century.
Sunday, February 17
Joel Speerstra: Musical Pictures from the High Baroque
Surrounded by beautiful pictures from the High Baroque, the Italian organ is a perfect venue to explore just how important visual images were to our favorite Baroque composers. From biblical stories to Greek classical myths to imitations of pastoral scenes, much baroque "instrumental" music was often far from abstract! This concert will present keyboard works from around 1700 that were designed not just to communicate a visual idea on paper, but also to use that idea to inspire and teach students to rise to new challenges and be actors at the keyboard! Joel Speerstra teaches organ and clavichord at the Academy of Music and Drama at Göteborg University and serves as the Director of Research and Publications at the Göteborg Organ Art Center.
Sunday, March 16
Timothy Tikker
Music by Italian, Spanish and English masters, as well as the American premiere of a piece by Peter Bannister. Described by Jean Langlais as "one of the most gifted temperaments I have ever encountered," Tikker is organist of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Charleston, South Carolina.
Sunday, April 20
Hans Davidsson
Hans Davidsson, Professor of Organ at the Eastman School of Music and an authoritative interpreter of the works of Dieterich Buxtehude, performs a selection of Buxtehude's music especially suited to the Italian Baroque Organ.
Sunday, May 18
Eastman Organ DMA Students: Robert Kwan, Erica Johnson, and Ryan Enright
Works by Gibbons, Salvatore, Poglietti, Froberger, Cabanilles, Scarlatti, and Bach.
Italian Baroque Organ demonstrations
at the Memorial Art Gallery
Sundays at 1:00 and 3:00 pm
Admission to the Memorial Art Gallery is $7
($5 with student ID, free with UR ID)
Apr 6: David Bellows | Apr 13: Robert Poovey (St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Atlanta)| Apr 27: Christopher Petit, organ and Daniel Nebel, horn
May 11: Ruth Draper | May 18: TBA | May 25: Nathan Davy
*EROI Community Recitals: Each recital features three to four of our talented Eastman students. All are welcome and admission is free! A free-will offering will be collected to raise funds for student travel related to the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative.