Westminster Concert Organ Series 2010-2011
The Westminster Concert Organ Series, in its 22nd Season at Westminster United Church, Westminster at Maryland, presents three exciting concerts with the magnificent four manual Casavant Pipe Organ - superb sight lines of the console, great acoustics, and an intermission for friends and coffee.
Printable 2010-11 ticket form. (PDF).
Sunday, November 14, 2010
7:30 PM
Peter Richard Conte
USA
Mr. Conte is Grand Court Organist of the world famous Wanamaker Organ at the Macy's Philadelphia Department Store. When not touring, he performs on the six-manual, 28,000-pipe instrument twice daily, six days a week. The Wanamaker Organ is the largest fully functioning musical instrument in the world. Mr. Conte was appointed Grand Court Organist in 1989 and is the fourth person to hold that title since the organ first played in 1911. His programs include transcriptions of recognizable audience-favourites, including many of the great opera arias and overtures. Peter Conte serves as Choirmaster and Organist of St. Clement's Church, Philadelphia, where he directs an eighteen-voice professional choir in music of the Anglo Catholic tradition.
Concert program
Sunday, February 20, 2011
2:30 PM
Christopher Houlihan
USA
Mr. Houlihan is one of the brightest stars in the new generation of American organists and was booked to perform coast to coast under professional representation during his debut season. Late in his freshman year at Trinity College in Connecticut, a group of his friends formed the "Houli Fans", a club aimed at gathering fellow students to attend his concerts, and shout and cheer their enthusiastic support. During his senior year of college he made his orchestral debut with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra along with violinist Joshua Bell, and busloads of 'Houli Fans". He is a graduate student of Paul Jacobs at The Juilliard School in New York.
Concert program to follow...
Sunday, May 8, 2011
7:30 PM
Lottie Enns-Braun & Allen Harrington
Winnipeg
Winnipeg artists Lottie Enns-Braun and Allen Harrington will be collaborating in an unique program featuring organ and saxophone. Lottie Enns-Braun, currently music director and organist at Young United Church and organ and music instructor at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Music, has toured in Eastern Canada, performed with the WSO, Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, Winnipeg Singers and All the King's Men and has been heard on CBC Radio. She has a master's degree in musicology. Allen Harrington teaches saxophone, bassoon, and chamber music at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Music. Allen has appeared as a soloist with more than ten orchestras in Canada and Europe. He has performed at World Saxophone Congresses in the United States, Europe, and Asia and has given recital tours with Debut Atlantic (2007) and Prairie Debut (2008-2009). A native of Saskatoon, he holds music degrees from the University of Saskatchewan (B.Mus.) and Northwestern University (M.M.).
Concert program to follow...
The Westminster Concert Organ Series, in its 22nd Season at Westminster United Church, Westminster at Maryland, presents three exciting concerts with the magnificent four manual Casavant Pipe Organ - superb sight lines of the console, great acoustics, and an intermission for friends and coffee.
Printable 2010-11 ticket form. (PDF).
Peter Richard Conte - Sunday, November 14, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
7:30 PM
Peter Richard Conte
USA
Mr. Conte is Grand Court Organist of the world famous Wanamaker Organ at the Macy's Philadelphia Department Store. When not touring, he performs on the six-manual, 28,000-pipe instrument twice daily, six days a week. The Wanamaker Organ is the largest fully functioning musical instrument in the world. Mr. Conte was appointed Grand Court Organist in 1989 and is the fourth person to hold that title since the organ first played in 1911. His programs include transcriptions of recognizable audience-favourites, including many of the great opera arias and overtures. Peter Conte serves as Choirmaster and Organist of St. Clement's Church, Philadelphia, where he directs an eighteen-voice professional choir in music of the Anglo Catholic tradition.
Concert program
Christopher Houlihan - Sunday, February 20, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
2:30 PM
Christopher Houlihan
USA
Mr. Houlihan is one of the brightest stars in the new generation of American organists and was booked to perform coast to coast under professional representation during his debut season. Late in his freshman year at Trinity College in Connecticut, a group of his friends formed the "Houli Fans", a club aimed at gathering fellow students to attend his concerts, and shout and cheer their enthusiastic support. During his senior year of college he made his orchestral debut with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra along with violinist Joshua Bell, and busloads of 'Houli Fans". He is a graduate student of Paul Jacobs at The Juilliard School in New York.
Concert program to follow...
Lottie Enns-Braun & Allen Harrington - Sunday, May 8, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
7:30 PM
Lottie Enns-Braun & Allen Harrington
Winnipeg
Winnipeg artists Lottie Enns-Braun and Allen Harrington will be collaborating in an unique program featuring organ and saxophone. Lottie Enns-Braun, currently music director and organist at Young United Church and organ and music instructor at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Music, has toured in Eastern Canada, performed with the WSO, Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir, Winnipeg Singers and All the King's Men and has been heard on CBC Radio. She has a master's degree in musicology. Allen Harrington teaches saxophone, bassoon, and chamber music at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Music. Allen has appeared as a soloist with more than ten orchestras in Canada and Europe. He has performed at World Saxophone Congresses in the United States, Europe, and Asia and has given recital tours with Debut Atlantic (2007) and Prairie Debut (2008-2009). A native of Saskatoon, he holds music degrees from the University of Saskatchewan (B.Mus.) and Northwestern University (M.M.).
Concert program to follow...
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