EROI Festival 2016
“Breath for Singing: The Organ and the Human Voice”
October 26–28, 2016
Full Schedule
Download the 2016 schedule and brochure
Wednesday, October 26
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester
| 3–5PM | Conference Registration |
| 3:30–4:30PM | Recital on Italian Baroque Organ by Eastman students and faculty Public admission: Free with paid Gallery admission |
| 5PM | Keynote Lecture: Robin A. Leaver (Professor Emeritus, Westminster Choir College) |
| 6:15PM | Dinner at the Memorial Art Gallery |
Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester
| 8PM |
Hymn Festival Organists: James E. Bobb (St. Olaf College), Aaron David Miller (House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, Minn.) Festival Choir from Rochester-area churches Free admission |
Thursday, October 27
Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music
| 9AM-Noon | Paper Session
Chair: Betsy Marvin |
| Noon–1:15PM | Lunch on your own in downtown Rochester |
Christ Church, Rochester
|
1:15-3:30PM |
Lecture-demonstrations This session will focus on the historical use of the organ in alternation with voices in the liturgies of the Western church. Chair: Kerala Snyder (Eastman School of Music) France: Robert Bates (University of Houston) Italy: Edoardo Bellotti (Eastman School of Music) Germany: Frederick Gable (University of California, Riverside) |
First Presbyterian Church, Pittsford
| 4:30PM | Moravian Singstunde Organizer and lecturer: Nola Reed Knouse (Director, Moravian Music Foundation) Organist: Jack Mitchener (Mercer University) |
| 5:45PM | Catered dinner |
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rochester
| 8PM | Concert of chant and chant-inspired organ repertoire, including alternation practices, featuring Edoardo Bellotti, Nathan Laube, Stephen Kennedy, and the Christ Church Schola Cantorum Public admission: $15 regular/$10 student; tickets available at the door |
Friday, October 28
Third Presbyterian Church
| 9AM-Noon | Master classes with Eastman Organ students
James E. Bobb: Leading nontraditional/multicultural hymnody from the organ James E. Bobb, Aaron David Miller, Rick Erickson (Christ the King Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas): Improvising introductions and accompaniments to congregational hymns |
| Noon-2PM | Lunch on your own in downtown Rochester |
Christ Church
|
2-5PM |
Lecture-demonstrations Chair: Roger Freitas (Eastman School of Music) Frederick Gable: The organ and congregational song in 17th-century Hamburg Kerala Snyder: The organ and congregational song in 17th-century Lübeck Jacob Fuhrman (Eastman School of Music): Metrical psalms in 18th-century Netherlands Derek Remeš (Eastman School of Music): The chorale in Germany after J. S. Bach |
| 5:15PM | Conference banquet at Max of Eastman Place, Miller Center, Eastman School of Music |
Christ Church
| 8PM | Concert featuring David Higgs and William Porter playing organ repertoire based on chorales, metrical psalms, and hymns, including congregational singing Public admission: $15 regular/$10 student; tickets available at the door |
Saturday, October 29
Christ Church and the Memorial Art Gallery
| 9AM-Noon | Open console |
