April 9, 2020, Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, Kansas. Organ by Richards, Fowkes & Co., Opus 22 (2016).
Felix Mendelssohn, Sonata No. 4
Georg Böhm, Partita on “Ach, wie nichtig, ach, wie flüchtig”
Egil Hovland, Toccata on "Nun Danket alle Gott" (Now Thank We All Our God)
She is represented by Concert Artist Cooperative.
Tyler A. Canonico plays Fanfare for a New Century by Aaron David Miller.
Létourneau Opus 136 resides at Market Square Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The organ comprises 83 total stops, 83 ranks, 4,683 pipes over four manuals and pedal. This organ was featured on the cover of the June 2022 issue of The Diapason.
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Tyler A. Canonico is the minister of music and organist at Market Square Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, also an adjunct instructor of music at Lebanon Valley College where he conducts the seventy-plus member College Choir. In addition, he is the organist for the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra and the founder and conductor of the Harrisburg Camerata. He is represented by Concert Artists Cooperative.
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Létourneau Opus 137 is located at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, St. Paul, Minnesota. The organ comprises 59 stops, 60 ranks, 3,591 pipes, and is featured on the cover of the June 2023 issue of The Diapason.
https://www.thediapason.com/content/cover-feature-letourneau-opus-137
The organ was delivered to the church in late October of 2022 and was installed in collaboration with the Organ Clearing House. The voicing of the instrument commenced after Thanksgiving with the welcome participation of Jonathan Ortloff for several weeks, and the project was wrapped up in the New Year.
Létourneau’s Opus 137 was played by Tim Strand in its first solo concert on April 23, 2023.
For information: https://www.letourneauorgans.com/organs/opus-137
The Hollow Men, opus 25 (1948) by Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987), played by Dr. Matthew Vangjel, trumpet, and Dr. Richard Webb, organ.
Recorded live at the opening concert performance of the Louisiana State University Trumpet Festival, March 4, 2022, at First United Methodist Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; organ by Casavant Frères, Opus 3932, IV/57, 2020.
Dr. Matthew Vangjel is Associate Professor of Trumpet at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Currently, he is a member of the Mirari Brass Quintet (Ariel Artists), with whom he maintains an active touring schedule both in the United States and abroad. Recently, Mirari spent two weeks touring China and released its second album, “renewed, reused, recycled.” He also is a member of the internationally acclaimed Fountain City Brass Band (FCBB), a British-style brass band based in Kansas City, KS. He can be heard as solo flugelhorn on all the FCBB albums and as a featured soloist on Over the Rainbow and Celtic Impressions. Since the fall of 2019, Vangjel has served as the principal trumpet of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. He also has performed with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and the Kansas City Symphony. He has been a featured soloist with the Fort Smith Symphony, Northland Symphony Orchestra and the Kansas City Civic Orchestra. His first solo album, Still and Quiet Places, was released by Summit Records in October of 2019.
Dr. Richard Webb, lauded by the Bristol Herald-Courier as “a musician foremost,” is highly regarded as a facile, sensitive and uniquely synchronous accompanist on all keyboard instruments and is in significant demand as both a solo artist and collaborative partner for singers and instrumentalists. Dr. Webb is Organ/Harpsichord Principal of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, a member of the Louisiana Touring Directory, is engaged as a collaborative artist and chamber musician by Bach's Five Productions and is represented as a concert organist by Concert Artist Cooperative. He is a featured artist on The Diapason's Artist Spotlights and was named a Louisiana Artist Fellow for Excellence in the Arts.
Dr. Stephan Casurella plays Victimae Paschali, by Charles Tournemire, on Richards, Fowkes & Co. Opus 24 at Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati, Ohio. The organ comprises 59 stops, 78 ranks, and 3,806 pipes; three manuals and pedal. For information: https://www.richardsfowkes.com/
Richards, Fowkes & Co. Opus 24 is featured on the cover of the May 2021 issue of The Diapason.
Dr. Casurella is Canon Precentor and Director of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, and holds doctor of musical arts degree in church music (organ emphasis) from the University of Kansas. Prior to his tenure at Christ Church, he held positions at various churches, including Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Kansas City, Kansas (1998–2006), and Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, Kansas (2006–2009). He also taught music at Avila College (1996–2000). For information: https://cincinnaticathedral.com/
Jackson Borges is Organist & Minister of Music for Statesboro First United Methodist Church and adjunct professor of music at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. Prior to his appointment, Jackson held positions with the Episcopal Parish of All Saints’ Church & St. George’s Chapel in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, as well as The Princeton Girl Choir, The American Boychoir, and Morristown United Methodist Church in New Jersey.
In addition to his church music ministry, Jackson is a frequent recitalist and silent movie accompanist, both at home and abroad. He has been heard in important venues such as Grace and St. Mary’s Cathedrals (San Francisco), the Spreckels Organ Pavilion (San Diego), Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago), Grace Church (Episcopal) and Central Synagogue (New York City), the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart and Princeton University (New Jersey), Trinity Church (Boston), Longwood Gardens and the Kimmel Center (Pennsylvania), and Khandallah Presbyterian Church (Wellington, New Zealand). Jackson’s orchestral debut was made in 2005 as organ soloist for Joseph Jongen’s monumental Symphonie Concertante with the University of Southern Mississippi Symphony. He has also appeared in Europe as duet partner and vocalist with American concert organist Stephen Tharp and has premiered new organ works and transcriptions by American composers Stephen Tharp, Daniel E. Gawthrop, Carolyn Hamlin, and Jason Klein-Mendoza.
Jackson is an accomplished chamber musician, continuo player, and accompanist, and has been heard in concert with members of the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Opera Chorus, Center City Chorale of Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware Symphony, Princeton Pro Musica, as well as numerous other professional organizations across the country.
As a composer, Jackson has written works which range from those for solo organ, voice, and choir, as well as arrangements for choir, congregation, and instrumental ensembles. His work “The St. George Responses” was given its first performance at St. George’s Chapel in Harbeson, Delaware on the Feast of the Epiphany, 2016.
Jackson Borges is an active member of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and has served on the executive boards of the Palomar and San Diego (CA) chapters, the Delaware chapter, and the Southern Delaware chapter. He has taught at Pipe Organ Encounters (POE) and given workshops for the AGO on both coasts and has performed at regional and national conventions of both the AGO and the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA).
As a vocalist, Jackson has performed in many important venues, such as Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, under conductors Pierre Boulez, Mariss Janssons, Ton Koopman, and Kurt Mazur. In the realm of musical and dramatic theatre, Jackson has appeared as pianist, music director, performer, and educator, both in academic and community settings.
Jackson Borges holds degrees in organ performance from San Diego State University, Westminster Choir College, and The University of Alabama. He has won top scholarship and competition awards from the American Guild of Organists, the Spreckels Organ Society, and the Pacific Council of Organ Clubs. Jackson’s major teachers have included Robert Plimpton, Alan Morrison, Faythe Freese and the late Tom Hazleton, with additional instruction in improvisation from Bruce Neswick and Stephen Tharp. He has participated in masterclasses and individual coaching sessions with Todd Wilson (Cleveland Institute of Music), Weston Noble (Luther College, Iowa), Vance George (San Francisco Symphony Chorus), John Ferguson (St. Olaf College), Pierre Pincemaille (Basilique St-Denis, Paris, France).
He is exclusively represented by Concert Artist Cooperative, and more information may be found at his website, www.jacksonborges.com, and at www.concertartistcooperative.com.
