Bradley Hunter Welch plays Max Drischner’s Variations on O laufet, ihr Hirten (“O Run, You Shepherds”) at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Texas.
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Bradley Hunter Welch is represented in North American exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC. www.concertartists.com
Damin Spritzer plays Marche Triomphale: Ite missa est, by René Louis Becker. This is from her recital at the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, Georgia, February 20, 2022.
Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1399, four manuals, 96 ranks.
https://www.cathedralatl.org/worship/music/organs/cathedral/
Dr. Damin Spritzer is Area Chair and Associate Professor of Organ at the University of Oklahoma and Interim Director of Music and Organist for St. Thomas More University Parish in Norman. She continues to work with the Cathedral Church of Saint Matthew in Dallas as Artist-in-Residence for Cathedral Arts. Formerly Adjunct Professor at the University of North Texas teaching Organ Literature and Sacred Music, she is active in the Dallas and Oklahoma City Chapters of the American Guild of Organists and serves on committees for the Organ Historical Society, the Association of Anglican Musicians, and Organlive Media Foundation. She received her doctorate from the University of North Texas, her Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music, and her Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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Damin Spritzer is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC. www.concertartists.com
Adam Brakel plays Fugue on B-A-C-H, op. 46, by Max Reger.
Recorded at the Cathedral of St. James, Orlando, Florida. Wicks organ, four manuals, 63 ranks. https://stjamesorlando.org/
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Adam J. Brakel is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.
Bryan Anderson plays Overture to “Der fliegende Holländer” by Richard Wagner, transcribed by Edwin Lemare. Recorded at Longwood Gardens, where he won the Firmin Swinnen Second Prize at the Longwood Gardens Organ Competition in 2019.
Anderson is the 2023 First Prize Winner of the Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition.
https://www.thediapason.com/news/longwood-gardens-international-organ-competition-1
Bryan Anderson, as part of his Longwood prize, is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.
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He is Director of Music at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church and School in Houston, Texas, where he trains all ages of choirs from elementary ages through adults, oversees 8 sung services weekly, and organizes a concert season of outside artists and in-house ensembles.
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Clive Driskill-Smith plays Flourish for an Occasion by William Harris on the Garland pipe organ at All Saints' Episcopal Church, Fort Worth, Texas.
Clive Driskill-Smith is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC. For information: www.concertartists.com
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Jack Mitchener plays Franck's Choral No. 2 in B Minor.
The performance was part of a recital at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in Atlanta. The organ is by Mander (IV/106 stops; 135 ranks).
More information is available at this link: https://www.prumc.org/worship/instruments/
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Jack Mitchener is Professor of Organ, University Organist, Chairman of the Keyboard Department, and Director of the Townsend-McAfee Institute of Church Music in the Townsend School of Music at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. In addition, he is Organist and Artist-in-Residence at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta.
He is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC. www.concertartists.com
Bálint Karosi plays Concerto in C Major, BWV 594, after Vivaldi, by J. S. Bach, on The Craighead-Saunders Organ at Christ Church, Rochester, New York, which was designed according to the specifications of an instrument built by Adam Gottlob Casparini in 1776 for the Church of the Dominicans in Vilnius, Lithuania.
An international reference group of organ builders was formed for this project including five of the foremost American builders working in this style: Steven Dieck, Paul Fritts, Bruce Fowkes, Martin Pasi, and George Taylor; the organ builders and instrument researchers at the Göteborg Organ Art Center in Sweden led by Mats Arvidsson, Joel Speerstra, and Munetaka Yokota; Eastman faculty including Hans Davidsson, David Higgs, Stephen Kennedy, William Porter, and Kerala J Snyder; and the consultant, Harald Vogel.
Dr. Karosi is the recipient numerous first prizes in organ competitions; the J. S. Bach competition in Leipzig, the International Organ Competition in Miami, and the Dublin International Organ competition that he won at age 22. He currently serves as Cantor at Saint Peter’s Church in New York City, where he is artistic director of the Saint Peter’s Bach Collegium, which he founded in 2015 for annual performances of J. S. Bach’s Passions, cantatas, and to commission and premier new sacred repertoire. From 2007 to 2015, Dr. Karosi served as Minister of Music at the First Lutheran Church of Boston, where he established a Bach Cantata Vespers, raised funds for the completion of the Richards Fowkes Opus 10 pipe organ, and he founded the church’s successful annual Boston Bach Birthday in 2008, which has since developed into the most popular organ-related event in Boston.
See his artist spotlight: https://www.thediapason.com/artists/balint-karosi
For information: www.karosi.org
Bálint Karosi is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.
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