Jeremy David Tarrant plays Vierne's ""Clair de lune."

Michael Ging plays Clair de Lune by Louis Vierne. From a live and unedited recording from his recital (July 4, 2021) on the Cavaillé-Coll organ in L'église de la Madeleine in Paris.

Michael Ging currently serves as Director of Music & Parish Organist at All Saints Episcopal Church, Winter Park, Florida. Prior to this appointment he served as Director of Music/Organist-in-Residence at New Hope Lutheran Church, Missouri City, Texas, and as Associate Director of Music/Organist at St. John Vianney Catholic Church, Houston.

He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Houston where he studied organ with Robert Bates, conducting with Betsy Cook Weber, and completed his dissertation, “Orchestrations and Transformations: Guilmant, Widor, and the Emergence of Music for Organ and Orchestra in France,” under the guidance of Matthew Dirst. He holds a master’s degree from Rice University, where he studied with Ken Cowan. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied with Jack Mitchener.

Dr. Ging is the Founder and Managing Partner of Seven Eight Artists, an artist management agency specializing in the management and promotion of concert organists and church musicians. For information: seveneightartists.com/ging

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Jeremy David Tarrant plays Vierne's Cathédrales

Jeremy David Tarrant plays Vierne's Andantino

Jeremy David Tarrant: Vierne, Toccata

Of Charles-Marie Widor’s collection, Bach’s Memento, Widor scholar John Near writes, “Immersed in the music of Bach his whole life, it is little wonder that in 1925 he felt inspired to make “transcriptions,” as the cover of Bach’s Memento indicates, of six of his favorite pieces by Bach—who himself had been an inveterate borrower and  arranger of other composer’s music.”

The collection is brought to a monumental close with the Mattheus-Final, Widor’s magnificent and emotional expression of the last chorus of the St. Matthew Passion, the scope of which is, as Near points out, akin to the closing of one of the organ symphonies.  John Near sums up this part of Widor’s great legacy: “Regardless of contemporary opinions, Bach’s Memento represents Widor’s heartfelt tribute to the great Cantor whose work was the cantus firmus of his life and the raison d’être of organ study.”

Mattheus-Final is performed here by Jeremy David Tarrant on the 1992 D.F. Pilzecker organ in Detroit’s Cathedral Church of St. Paul. 

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