In questa pagina troverete gli amici che sono venuti a S. Pietro e hanno suonato l'organo:
ANDREW R. MOTYKA (USA) is the Director of Liturgical Music for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Director of Music at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. He previously served as Director of Music at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and held positions at churches in Maryland, Massachusetts, and western Pennsylvania. He holds a Master of Music in Sacred Music from Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America, and a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from The College of Saint Rose.
Andrew is composer of the Laudate Dominum Communion Antiphons (communionantiphons.org), and has published other pieces with CanticaNOVA. He believes that creative implementation of the musical propers of the Mass is the key to liturgical renewal and the improvement of sacred music in our Church.
Andrew is composer of the Laudate Dominum Communion Antiphons (communionantiphons.org), and has published other pieces with CanticaNOVA. He believes that creative implementation of the musical propers of the Mass is the key to liturgical renewal and the improvement of sacred music in our Church.
Organist JACOB KASAK of Orangevale, California, U.S., will enter the senior year of his Bachelor’s in Music this Fall in the studio of Professor Nathan Laube at the Eastman School of Music. Rochester, NY. He began his musical career as a boy chorister in 2002 at St. Stephen the First Martyr Catholic Church, his home parish. After seven years of piano lessons, Jacob earned a scholarship for twenty free organ lessons from the Sacramento Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. He began his organ studies under Mr. Rexphil Rallanka at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento during October of 2010. Jacob soon began improvising during Low Mass and later became the substitute organist at St. Stephen’s. He attended the 2011 Pipe Organ Encounter in Portland Oregon, and the Oberlin Summer Program for High School Organists in the summer of 2012. During his senior year of high school, Jacob took on the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Organ Scholar position. During freshman and part of his sophomore year at Eastman, he worked as an assistant organist at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Rochester, NY. Jacob has been a choral section leader with the Latin Mass Community currently at St. Thomas the Apostle in Irondequoit since freshman year. This past spring semester, Jacob recorded for the organ radio show Pipedreams® along with rest of the Eastman organ department students. When he is at home in Sacramento, he plays at St. Stephen’s and coaches the other young organists there.
JOCELYN LAFOND (CANADA) a un parcours musical riche et varié. Organiste titulaire des grandes orgues de la Cathédrale de Saint-Hyacinthe depuis 2009, il a donné à ce titre de nombreux récitals à Bruxelles, Montréal, Québec, Trois-Rivières, Saguenay, Rimouski, Saint-Hyacinthe et Drummondville. Comme pianiste, il a donné également plusieurs récitals solo et en ensemble. Il a interprété le Carnaval des animaux de Saint-Saëns avec l’Orchestre symphonique de Drummondville en mars 2011 ainsi qu’avec l’Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières en novembre 2012. Également compositeur, il a déjà à son actif quelques œuvres pour orgue solo, pour petits ensembles, ainsi qu’un Requiem et une Messe pour solistes, chœur et orgue. Cette dernière a reçu le premier prix ex æquo lors du concours de la Messe du 400e anniversaire de la ville de Québec, organisé par FideArt. Sa dernière œuvre, un Te Deum pour chœur et deux orgues commandé par les Amis de l’orgue de Drummond, a été présentée à l’église Saint-Frédéric de Drummondville le 23 août 2015 en l’honneur du 200e anniversaire de cette ville.
Jocelyn Lafond est également chef d’orchestre et a déjà dirigé à plusieurs reprises l’Orchestre du Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivières ainsi que l’Orchestre symphonique de jeunes Philippe-Filion de Shawinigan. Il a été invité à diriger l’Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières en 2015 dans le cadre des festivités du 50e anniversaire du Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivières.
Ayant étudié pendant plus de huit ans au Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivières auprès du pianiste Michel Kozlovsky, de l’organiste Raymond Perrin et du chef d’orchestre et compositeur Gilles Bellemare, Jocelyn Lafond est titulaire d’une maîtrise et d’un baccalauréat en orgue, d’une maîtrise et d’un certificat en direction d’orchestre, d’un baccalauréat en piano ainsi que d’un diplôme d’études supérieures I en écriture. Il poursuit actuellement des études de maîtrise à l’École supérieure Arts au carré (Conservatoire royal de musique) de Mons, en Belgique, où il travaille les écritures classiques avec le compositeur Jean-Pierre Deleuze et la direction chorale avec Denis Menier. Il bénéficie également de l’enseignement de Daniel Roth, titulaire des grandes orgues Cavaillé-Coll de l’église Saint-Sulpice de Paris.
Pour tous ses efforts aux niveaux musical et académique, M. Lafond s’est mérité de nombreux prix, bourses et distinctions : Prix du lieutenant-gouverneur du Québec (2006); médaille académique du gouverneur général du Canada (2009). Premier prix chez les organistes en 2008, 2010, 2012 et 2013 au Concours de musique du Canada, il a remporté le Grand Prix, tous instruments confondus, chez les 19-30 ans en juillet 2013. Enfin, il a obtenu le Premier Prix lors du Concours Lynnwood-Farnam 2013, organisé à l’église St. James de Montréal par le Collège royal canadien des organistes, de même que le Premier Prix d’orgue au Festival-concours de Rivière-du-Loup et de la région du Bas-Saint-Laurent ainsi que le Grand Prix Claude-Lavoie du Concours d’orgue de Québec en 2014.
Jocelyn Lafond est également chef d’orchestre et a déjà dirigé à plusieurs reprises l’Orchestre du Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivières ainsi que l’Orchestre symphonique de jeunes Philippe-Filion de Shawinigan. Il a été invité à diriger l’Orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières en 2015 dans le cadre des festivités du 50e anniversaire du Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivières.
Ayant étudié pendant plus de huit ans au Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivières auprès du pianiste Michel Kozlovsky, de l’organiste Raymond Perrin et du chef d’orchestre et compositeur Gilles Bellemare, Jocelyn Lafond est titulaire d’une maîtrise et d’un baccalauréat en orgue, d’une maîtrise et d’un certificat en direction d’orchestre, d’un baccalauréat en piano ainsi que d’un diplôme d’études supérieures I en écriture. Il poursuit actuellement des études de maîtrise à l’École supérieure Arts au carré (Conservatoire royal de musique) de Mons, en Belgique, où il travaille les écritures classiques avec le compositeur Jean-Pierre Deleuze et la direction chorale avec Denis Menier. Il bénéficie également de l’enseignement de Daniel Roth, titulaire des grandes orgues Cavaillé-Coll de l’église Saint-Sulpice de Paris.
Pour tous ses efforts aux niveaux musical et académique, M. Lafond s’est mérité de nombreux prix, bourses et distinctions : Prix du lieutenant-gouverneur du Québec (2006); médaille académique du gouverneur général du Canada (2009). Premier prix chez les organistes en 2008, 2010, 2012 et 2013 au Concours de musique du Canada, il a remporté le Grand Prix, tous instruments confondus, chez les 19-30 ans en juillet 2013. Enfin, il a obtenu le Premier Prix lors du Concours Lynnwood-Farnam 2013, organisé à l’église St. James de Montréal par le Collège royal canadien des organistes, de même que le Premier Prix d’orgue au Festival-concours de Rivière-du-Loup et de la région du Bas-Saint-Laurent ainsi que le Grand Prix Claude-Lavoie du Concours d’orgue de Québec en 2014.
IESTYN EVANS (INGHILTERRA), originally from west Wales Iestyn was organ scholar of St Davids Cathedral before going up to The Queen’s College, Oxford where he read music. After graduating he was appointed Organ Scholar of Westminster Cathedral and subsequently of Westminster Abbey whilst completing a postgraduate performance course with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music.Iestyn has taught at the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in Kensington for eleven years. He has conducted the orchestra in numerous works, including Dvorak’s Eighth Symphony, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, Borodin’s Second Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony. He also recently directed performances of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Britten’s Noye’s Fludde. He has accompanied the Schola Cantorum for regular services and in concerts in London and further afield.
He was Organist of St Etheldreda’s Church, Ely Place, England’s oldest Catholic Church, for seven years and in January 2007 moved to St James’s Church, Spanish Place where he plays for Mass on Sundays and feast days for the professional choir there. In 2011 he has co-ordinated a festival of the music of Victoria, Spain’s greatest Renaissance composer, on the 400th anniversary of his death: the choir performed all of his Mass settings in services during the course of the year. He is also conductor of the Hill Singers Chamber Choir in Wimbledon and the Hampstead Chamber Choir. His discography includes two CDs by the Schola Cantorum as well as recordings of works by Georg Schumann, a recording with the choir of St Etheldreda’s and a recently released solo CD recorded at St James’s. Iestyn has also been employed as a consultant working with choirs in the churches in the UAE.
Iestyn has performed as a soloist and accompanist in Britain and abroad at venues which include St John’s Smith Square; Notre-Dame, Paris; St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York; Brussels Cathedral and St Peter’s, Rome. Amongst his more eccentric performances was a complete cycle of the organ work of J.S. Bach within twenty four hours in 2005 when he raised over £8,000 towards a school music tour to America.
He was Organist of St Etheldreda’s Church, Ely Place, England’s oldest Catholic Church, for seven years and in January 2007 moved to St James’s Church, Spanish Place where he plays for Mass on Sundays and feast days for the professional choir there. In 2011 he has co-ordinated a festival of the music of Victoria, Spain’s greatest Renaissance composer, on the 400th anniversary of his death: the choir performed all of his Mass settings in services during the course of the year. He is also conductor of the Hill Singers Chamber Choir in Wimbledon and the Hampstead Chamber Choir. His discography includes two CDs by the Schola Cantorum as well as recordings of works by Georg Schumann, a recording with the choir of St Etheldreda’s and a recently released solo CD recorded at St James’s. Iestyn has also been employed as a consultant working with choirs in the churches in the UAE.
Iestyn has performed as a soloist and accompanist in Britain and abroad at venues which include St John’s Smith Square; Notre-Dame, Paris; St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York; Brussels Cathedral and St Peter’s, Rome. Amongst his more eccentric performances was a complete cycle of the organ work of J.S. Bach within twenty four hours in 2005 when he raised over £8,000 towards a school music tour to America.
NICOLAS PICHON (FRANCE) est né en 1981, a étudié l’orgue, le piano et le solfège dans les classes de François BOCQUELET à l'ENMD de Calais et Vincent LEROY à l'ENMD de Tourcoing, il s’est perfectionné au conservatoire supérieur de Paris (rue de Madrid). Il s’est perfectionné dans l’art de l’improvisation auprès de Pierre PINCEMAILLE au CRR de St Maur des Fossés; enseignement couronné par un premier Prix d’improvisation obtenu en juin 2012. De cet enseignement, il s’est vu récompensé en 2013 du premier prix et prix du public au Concours international d’improvisation de Luxeuil Les Bains dans le cadre du Festival. Il a également été récompensé à l’Orgelbespelingen de Sinkt Maarten 2012 à Courtrai en Belgique. Organiste titulaire des grandes orgues de St Martin d’Esquermes à Lille depuis 2000, il est à l’origine, et directeur artistique, du festival d’orgue de St Martin d’Esquermes. En marge des Concerts Soliste, il se produit régulièrement en accompagnateur de choeur, ensemble cuivres & orgue, avec l’Ensemble Hexactus qu’il a fondé, et qui joue le grand répertoire pour orgue et ensemble de Cuivre (Vierne, Dupré, Litaize, Penard, Widor…) Titulaire de la carte professionnelle d’organiste liturgique du diocèse de Paris, il est suppléant aux grandes orgues de Ste Clotilde à Paris. En Septembre 2010, il est nommé Organiste titulaire des grandes orgues de la chapelle de la Maison d'éducation de la Légion D'Honneur à Paris-St Denis.
JOACHIM WELLER (DEUTSCHLAND) wird zum 1. September neuer Domkantor am Speyerer Dom. Das hat das Domkapitel beschlossen. Joachim Weller tritt die Nachfolge von Alexander Lauer an, der zum Domkapellmeister am St.-Paulus-Dom in Münster berufen wurde.
Joachim Weller stammt aus Steinebach/Sieg im Westerwald. Ab 1998 erhielt er Klavierunterricht bei Prof. Natalie Zinzadse in Aachen. Mit zwölf Jahren nahm er den ersten Orgelunterricht.
Im Dezember 2004 wurde er mit dem „Förderpreis für junge Musiker“ der „Arndt-Adorf-Stiftung“ in Betzdorf/Sieg ausgezeichnet. Von 2005 bis 2009 war Joachim Weller Jungstudent an der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln bei Prof. Johannes Geffert im Fach Orgel. Zudem ist er mehrfacher Preisträger auf Landes- und Bundesebene des Wettbewerbs „Jugend musiziert“ in den Kategorien Orgel Solo, Duowertung und Klavierbegleitung.
Nach dem Abitur absolvierte Joachim Weller ein Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr an der Kölner Dommusik/Musikschule des Kölner Domchores. Außerdem ist er Stipendiat des Richard-Wagner-Verbandes Siegen. Derzeit studiert er im Masterstudiengang Kirchenmusik sowie Lehramt Musik an der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Köln in der Orgelklasse von Prof. Johannes Geffert und Domorganist Prof. Dr. Winfried Bönig, sowie in der Chorleitungsklasse von Prof. Robert Göstl und Prof. Reiner Schuhenn.
Regelmäßige Orgelkonzerte - unter anderem als Solist gemeinsam mit dem Heidelberger Kantatenorchester und im Rahmen des Kultursommers Rheinland-Pfalz - ergänzen seine musikalische Ausbildung. Von 2010 bis 2014 wirkte er als Organist und Chorleiter in der Pfarrei „Sankt Marien“ in Hachenburg im Westerwald. Seit Januar 2014 leitet Joachim Weller den Kammerchor Essen-Kettwig und arbeitet seit Februar 2014 als musikalischer Assistent des Domkapellmeisters Prof. Eberhard Metternich am Hohen Dom zu Köln.
Als Domkantor gehört Joachim Weller dem Team der Dommusik unter Leitung von Domkapellmeister Markus Melchiori an. Zu seinen Aufgaben zählen unter anderem die Organisation der Kantorendienste in der Domliturgie, die Unterstützung der Probenarbeit im Domchor, die Mitarbeit in der Domsingschule und bei der Stimmbildung der Chöre, die Betreuung von Gastchören und -ensembles und die Stellvertretung des Domkapellmeisters.
Joachim Weller stammt aus Steinebach/Sieg im Westerwald. Ab 1998 erhielt er Klavierunterricht bei Prof. Natalie Zinzadse in Aachen. Mit zwölf Jahren nahm er den ersten Orgelunterricht.
Im Dezember 2004 wurde er mit dem „Förderpreis für junge Musiker“ der „Arndt-Adorf-Stiftung“ in Betzdorf/Sieg ausgezeichnet. Von 2005 bis 2009 war Joachim Weller Jungstudent an der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln bei Prof. Johannes Geffert im Fach Orgel. Zudem ist er mehrfacher Preisträger auf Landes- und Bundesebene des Wettbewerbs „Jugend musiziert“ in den Kategorien Orgel Solo, Duowertung und Klavierbegleitung.
Nach dem Abitur absolvierte Joachim Weller ein Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr an der Kölner Dommusik/Musikschule des Kölner Domchores. Außerdem ist er Stipendiat des Richard-Wagner-Verbandes Siegen. Derzeit studiert er im Masterstudiengang Kirchenmusik sowie Lehramt Musik an der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Köln in der Orgelklasse von Prof. Johannes Geffert und Domorganist Prof. Dr. Winfried Bönig, sowie in der Chorleitungsklasse von Prof. Robert Göstl und Prof. Reiner Schuhenn.
Regelmäßige Orgelkonzerte - unter anderem als Solist gemeinsam mit dem Heidelberger Kantatenorchester und im Rahmen des Kultursommers Rheinland-Pfalz - ergänzen seine musikalische Ausbildung. Von 2010 bis 2014 wirkte er als Organist und Chorleiter in der Pfarrei „Sankt Marien“ in Hachenburg im Westerwald. Seit Januar 2014 leitet Joachim Weller den Kammerchor Essen-Kettwig und arbeitet seit Februar 2014 als musikalischer Assistent des Domkapellmeisters Prof. Eberhard Metternich am Hohen Dom zu Köln.
Als Domkantor gehört Joachim Weller dem Team der Dommusik unter Leitung von Domkapellmeister Markus Melchiori an. Zu seinen Aufgaben zählen unter anderem die Organisation der Kantorendienste in der Domliturgie, die Unterstützung der Probenarbeit im Domchor, die Mitarbeit in der Domsingschule und bei der Stimmbildung der Chöre, die Betreuung von Gastchören und -ensembles und die Stellvertretung des Domkapellmeisters.
ALESSIO PACCHIAROTTI (ITALIA), nato a Roma nel 1978, comincia a studiare musica dall'età di 5 anni presso l'Accademia Filarmonica Romana, frequentando i corsi di educazione musicale, canto corale e flauto dolce barocco e successivamente entrando a far parte stabilmente del coro misto della stessa Accademia, diretto da mons. Pablo Colino. Successivamente consegue i diplomi in pianoforte principale e musica corale e direzione di coro, parallelamente agli studi universitari. Ha studiato anche clarinetto, composizione, organo e canto gregoriano. Attualmente è cantore, pianista, organista, direttore, insegnante di musica e compositore presso diverse associazioni, gruppi corali ed orchestrali, scuole e chiese di Roma, esibendosi in Italia ed in alcuni paesi esteri.
DIDIER HENNUYER (FRANCE) est né à Boulogne sur mer, dans la ville natale d’Alexandre Guilmant et Olivier Latry, en 1972. Après de brillantes études musicales (orgue avec François Bocquelet et François-Henri Houbart, et auprès de Michel Chapuis, piano, Harmonie- Contrepoint avec Jacques Veyrier, Composition Electroacoustique avec un disciple de Pierre Schaeffer, nombreuses rencontres avec le Compositeur Maurice Ohana), il obtient les plus hautes distinctions aux conservatoires de Calais, Boulogne sur mer et Orléans. Il est titulaire du Diplôme d’Etat d'accompagnateur. Organiste titulaire des Grandes-Orgues de la Cathédrale Notre-Dame et de l'église St. François de Sales de Boulogne sur mer, il participe à la vie Cultuelle et Culturelle de sa ville.
Musicien exceptionnellement doué pour le déchiffrage, il est également Professeur- Accompagnateur Titulaire des classes instrumentales, chant et danse ainsi que Professeur d’Orgue au sein du Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental du Boulonnais, basé à Boulogne sur mer. Invité par de nombreux Festivals, il donne régulièrement des récitals d'orgue en France et dans le Monde (Allemagne, Belgique, Suisse, Italie, Grande- Bretagne, Pologne, Etats-Unis…). L'éclectisme musicale de Didier Hennuyer fait de lui un musicien complet.
PEDRO ALBUQUERQUE (PORTUGAL), recebeu a sua formação musical na escola de música Silva Monteiro, onde estudou piano com Ana Sousa Guedes e composição com Ana Sério. Paralelamente frequentou o Curso Geral de Música Litúrgica na Escola Diocesana de Ministérios Litúrgicos do Porto (EDML), tendo adquirido a formação em Órgão, Harmonia, Direção Coral e Litúrgica. Em Espanha, estudou órgão no Conservatório de Ourense com a professora Marisol Mendive. Para além da sua formação geral, frequentou vários Masterclasse de Órgão: com Olivier Latry (organista titular de Notre Dame), Daniel Roth (Igreja de Saint Sulplice, Paris), Michel Bouvard, Guiedo Lotti e Montserrat Torrent; Cravo, Música Antiga com Miguel Jalôto (Casa da Música, Porto) e Canto Gregoriano com Goeschel. Desde 2014, estuda órgão em Barcelona, com a Professora Montserrat Torrent. Foi professor do Agrupamento de Canelas (AECS), Câmara Municipal, no Município de Gaia. De 2001 a 2013 foi organista substituto no Santuário de Fátima. Foi organista na Igreja da Lapa, Porto, de 2012 a 2015. Atualmente é organista na Igreja da Senhora do Porto, Igreja das Antas e Igreja de Rio Tinto e colabora também na Igreja da Serra do Pilar. Apresenta-se regularmente, em concertos como Maestro e Organista em Portugal e também no Estrangeiro (Espanha, França, Suíça Brasil). É maestro e Fundador do Coral Mysterium. Está a frequentar uma Pós-Graduação, em Música Sacra, na Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
GABRIELE TERRONE (ITALIA/USA), is the Organist and Assistant Director of Music at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also serves on the faculty of the Madeleine Choir School and is the Director of the Eccles Organ Festival.
Dr. Terrone obtained the Diploma in Organ and Composition from the Italian State Conservatory. Afterwards, he completed a postgraduate program in organ improvisation at the Pontifical Institute for Sacred Music in Rome and the Hochschüle für Musik in Luzern (Switzerland).
Gabriele Terrone served from 2011 to 2014 as the Titular Organist at the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Padova, Italy.
Dr. Terrone obtained the Diploma in Organ and Composition from the Italian State Conservatory. Afterwards, he completed a postgraduate program in organ improvisation at the Pontifical Institute for Sacred Music in Rome and the Hochschüle für Musik in Luzern (Switzerland).
Gabriele Terrone served from 2011 to 2014 as the Titular Organist at the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Padova, Italy.
ERIC FOSTER (INGHILTERRA) è pianista, organista e direttore. Dal 2013 al 2016, Eric ha frequentato l’Università di Oxford, laureandosi in Musica. Presso l’Università, Eric ha ricoperto la carica di "Organ Scholar" al Corpus Christi College, ha diretto molti ensemble universitari ed è stato presidente della Società Musicale. Attualmente frequenta il corso di 'Maestro Collaboratore' presso il Conservatorio Santa Cecilia di Roma. Inoltre collabora con la Cappella Musicale Pontificia "Sistina" come cantore aggiunto. Nel futuro, spera di lavorare nei teatri dell’opera, come ripetitore e direttore musicale.
HUGO WILLIAMS (INGHILTERRA) ha iniziato lo studio dell'organo nel 2014 con Carl Jackson, proseguendo poi i suoi studi inizialmente presso St Mary's Barnes, e successivamente a St Mary's Wimbledon. Ha ricevuto lezioni e masterclass da Stephen Farr, Martin Neary e molti altri. É attualmente "Assistant-Organist" presso la chiesa di San Paolo entro le mura di Roma, esperienza a cui seguirà una nuova borsa di studio presso l'Università di Cambridge a partire dal prossimo settembre.
NICHOLAS WILL (USA/ITALIA) is the Director of Liturgical Music at the Pontifical North American College where he oversees all aspects of liturgical music, serves as principal organist, and directs the Seminary Choir. He is currently on a leave of absence as Assistant Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Sacred Music Program at Franciscan University of Steubenville. A graduate of Duquesne University and Peabody Conservatory of Music, Nicholas is currently studying improvisation at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. He has performed throughout the eastern United States and in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and Croatia as a soloist, accompanist, and conductor, including national gatherings of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians and the Church Music Association of America. In 2019, he founded the Saint Gregory Institute of Sacred Music, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating current and future church musicians. His recordings as organist and conductor have been released by Navona Records and Jade Music, and he is soon to be a published composer with CanticaNOVA Publications.
MARC D’ANJOU (CANADA), né à Gagnon en 1964, Marc D’Anjou entre au Conservatoire de Musique de Rimouski en septembre 1976. Parallèlement à ses études d’orgue (avec Jacques Montgrain), il y étudie le piano et le clavecin. En 1986, ses études sont couronnées par un premier prix à l’unanimité du jury. Par la suite, il étudie l’improvisation avec Richard Gagné et Rachel Laurin, ainsi que l’improvisation et le répertoire français à Paris avec Jean Galard. En 1980, Marc D’Anjou remporte les finales nationales en orgue, catégorie junior, du Concours Baldwin de Toronto. Il est récipiendaire d’une « Mention Honorable » de la Fondation Sir Ernest McMillan de Toronto en 1989 et offre une prestation remarquable comme finaliste à la première édition du Concours d’Orgue de Québec, en juin 1992.
Il est nommé par voie de concours titulaire des grandes orgues de la Basilique-Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Québec en décembre 1993. Il occupera cette fonction jusqu’en mai 2010. Par la suite, il est directeur musical (organiste, pianiste et chef de chœur) à South Burnaby United Church de septembre 2010 à septembre 2012. Durant cette période, il fonde le ‘Burnaby Chamber Choir’. Il en est le directeur le directeur artistique et musical. Il est de nouveau nommé, cette fois par acclamation, titulaire à la Basilique-Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Québec en mai 2012 et directeur musical depuis 2015. Il est aussi pianiste-répétiteur pour le chœur de l’Orchestre Symphonique de Québec et directeur artistique du Chœur de Chambre Notre-Dame. Il travaille régulièrement comme accompagnateur avec le chœur Les Rhapsodes et la Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs de Québec. Il fonde en octobre 2016 le « Chœur de chambre Notre-Dame » qui est composé de jeune chanteurs professionnels de Québec et qui se veut un ensemble sans direction musicale, sauf exception.
Marc D’Anjou a donné, en novembre 1998, un concert et une classe de maître à l’université Towson, près de Baltimore, deux concerts à la Cathédrale catholique de Vancouver (2004 et 2011), un match d’improvisation et un concert à Toulouse (France) en octobre 2006 ainsi qu’une tournée de concerts en Équateur en mars 2009. Il a accompagné, en septembre 2011, le très prestigieux Vancouver Chamber Choir (concert enregistré par CBC). Il a donné un récital à la Cathédrale anglicane de Vancouver en 2011.
Il est nommé par voie de concours titulaire des grandes orgues de la Basilique-Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Québec en décembre 1993. Il occupera cette fonction jusqu’en mai 2010. Par la suite, il est directeur musical (organiste, pianiste et chef de chœur) à South Burnaby United Church de septembre 2010 à septembre 2012. Durant cette période, il fonde le ‘Burnaby Chamber Choir’. Il en est le directeur le directeur artistique et musical. Il est de nouveau nommé, cette fois par acclamation, titulaire à la Basilique-Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Québec en mai 2012 et directeur musical depuis 2015. Il est aussi pianiste-répétiteur pour le chœur de l’Orchestre Symphonique de Québec et directeur artistique du Chœur de Chambre Notre-Dame. Il travaille régulièrement comme accompagnateur avec le chœur Les Rhapsodes et la Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs de Québec. Il fonde en octobre 2016 le « Chœur de chambre Notre-Dame » qui est composé de jeune chanteurs professionnels de Québec et qui se veut un ensemble sans direction musicale, sauf exception.
Marc D’Anjou a donné, en novembre 1998, un concert et une classe de maître à l’université Towson, près de Baltimore, deux concerts à la Cathédrale catholique de Vancouver (2004 et 2011), un match d’improvisation et un concert à Toulouse (France) en octobre 2006 ainsi qu’une tournée de concerts en Équateur en mars 2009. Il a accompagné, en septembre 2011, le très prestigieux Vancouver Chamber Choir (concert enregistré par CBC). Il a donné un récital à la Cathédrale anglicane de Vancouver en 2011.
JESÚS SAMPEDRO MÁRQUEZ (ESPAÑA) es Profesor de Órgano del Conservatorio Superior de Sevilla. Presidente de la Asociación Amigos del Órgano Cavaillé-Coll de Sevilla. Director del I Ciclo Internacional de Órgano de Málaga.
Nace en Sevilla donde obtiene el Título de Profesor de Órgano, posteriormente en Málaga consigue el Título de Profesor Superior de Órgano con Adalberto Martínez Solaesa, con las máximas calificaciones y Mención Honorífica. Amplía estudios en Madrid con Roberto Fresco.
En 1997 y 1998 se traslada a Barcelona estudiando en el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), donde obtiene el Post-Grado y espelización en “ Música Antigua para Tecla”. Cursos de perfeccionamiento con Jean Guillou, Félix Friedrich, Harald Voguel, L. Tagliavini, Olivier Latry , Jean Louis Florentz etc.
Becado por la Junta de Andalucía en 1999 finaliza sus estudios superiores en el Conservatorio Nacional de Saint Maur de Fossés (París), bajo la dirección de Eric Lebrun. Obtiene la Médaille de Vermeil siendo su tribunal Daniel Roth (organista de Saint Sulpice), Andrea Macinanti ( Profesor de Órgano del Conservatorio de Bologna), Jean Boyer (Profesor de órgano del CNSM de Lyon) y Olivier Kaspar (Profesor de composición en el CNSM de Lyon).
Su actividad concertística le lleva a participar en gran número de Ciclos y Festivales especializados como los ofrecidos en Polonia, Francia, Rusia, Italia, Alemania, República Checa, Estonia...
Durante su estancia en París fue organista de la Catedral de Notre Dame de Créteil (París). En 2004 obtiene el DEA (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados) en la Universidad de Granada con el tema “ La Modalidad en el Cancionero de Cáceres”. Ha grabado los siguientes CD:
“Los Órganos Históricos de Sevilla” - Sevilla, 2004
“Marchas de Semana Santa Vol I” - París, 2007
“Marchas de Semana Santa Vol II" - París, 2008
Ha sido profesor del Conservatorio Profesional de Córdoba, también profesor en la Universidad San Pablo CEU (Sevilla), de la Universidad de Ciencias de la Educación (Huelva) y profesor de órgano en el Seminario Mayor de Córdoba.
Nace en Sevilla donde obtiene el Título de Profesor de Órgano, posteriormente en Málaga consigue el Título de Profesor Superior de Órgano con Adalberto Martínez Solaesa, con las máximas calificaciones y Mención Honorífica. Amplía estudios en Madrid con Roberto Fresco.
En 1997 y 1998 se traslada a Barcelona estudiando en el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), donde obtiene el Post-Grado y espelización en “ Música Antigua para Tecla”. Cursos de perfeccionamiento con Jean Guillou, Félix Friedrich, Harald Voguel, L. Tagliavini, Olivier Latry , Jean Louis Florentz etc.
Becado por la Junta de Andalucía en 1999 finaliza sus estudios superiores en el Conservatorio Nacional de Saint Maur de Fossés (París), bajo la dirección de Eric Lebrun. Obtiene la Médaille de Vermeil siendo su tribunal Daniel Roth (organista de Saint Sulpice), Andrea Macinanti ( Profesor de Órgano del Conservatorio de Bologna), Jean Boyer (Profesor de órgano del CNSM de Lyon) y Olivier Kaspar (Profesor de composición en el CNSM de Lyon).
Su actividad concertística le lleva a participar en gran número de Ciclos y Festivales especializados como los ofrecidos en Polonia, Francia, Rusia, Italia, Alemania, República Checa, Estonia...
Durante su estancia en París fue organista de la Catedral de Notre Dame de Créteil (París). En 2004 obtiene el DEA (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados) en la Universidad de Granada con el tema “ La Modalidad en el Cancionero de Cáceres”. Ha grabado los siguientes CD:
“Los Órganos Históricos de Sevilla” - Sevilla, 2004
“Marchas de Semana Santa Vol I” - París, 2007
“Marchas de Semana Santa Vol II" - París, 2008
Ha sido profesor del Conservatorio Profesional de Córdoba, también profesor en la Universidad San Pablo CEU (Sevilla), de la Universidad de Ciencias de la Educación (Huelva) y profesor de órgano en el Seminario Mayor de Córdoba.
CLAUDE-ROLAND MONNIER (FRANCE) ha studiato organo al Conservatorio di Caen proseguendo i suoi studi con la prestigiosa organista americana Lynne Davis, concertista internazionale. E' stato per 39 anni organista titolare della chiesa parrocchiale di St Joseph di Clamart e ancora oggi, dopo 30 anni, organista supplente della chiesa parigina di St Louis d'Antin.
ESTHER CIUDAD CAUDEVILLA (ESPAÑA), Musicóloga, organista, intérprete de tecla, programadora y Gestora Cultural.
Natural de Zaragoza, inicia sus estudios en el Conservatorio de su ciudad natal en donde obtiene el título profesional de piano. A continuación, comienza sus estudios de Órgano y Clavicémbalo en el Conservatorio Superior de Aragón obteniendo las titulaciones superiores en las especialidades de Órgano y Clavicémbalo. Así mismo obtiene las titulaciones superiores de Solfeo y Teoría de la Música y Pedagogía Musical. Tras finalizar sus estudios se traslada a Barcelona para recibir clases de perfeccionamiento con Montserrat Torrent.
En 1998 y 2001 asiste a los cursos de interpretación organizados por el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (C.S.I.C.) en Barcelona, donde obtiene el Post-Graduado y Especialización en “Música Antigua para Tecla”. De 2002 a 2005 amplía su formación musical en Europa cursando estudios de especialización en Órgano y Clavicordio con Heinrich Walther en Freiburg (Alemania), con Michael Bouvard en Toulouse (Francia), Ignace Michiels en Brujas (Bégica) y Pianoforte con Bart Van Oort (Holanda).
En 2015 obtiene el Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (D.E.A.) en el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Zaragoza) con la calificación de sobresaliente por su novedoso trabajo titulado “La construcción de arquetipos en el cine a través de los instrumentos antiguos de tecla. Funciones y significado de los instrumentos antiguos en la escena” y en 2020 obtiene el Master de Musicología por la Universidad de la Rioja con prácticas externas en el Auditorio de Zaragoza. Actualmente continúa con el doctorado en la Universidad de Valladolid en colaboración con la Universidad de Burdeos y en la Universidad de las Artes de Gante (Bélgica).
Como intérprete solista y de cámara ha participado en ciclos nacionales e internacionales.
Como pedagoga ha participado en diferentes cursos y ponencias, teniendo como uno de sus principales objetivos, la conservación y difusión del patrimonio musical de Aragón y como pianista acompañante colabora con distintas formaciones instrumentales con órgano, clave, pianoforte y piano moderno. Directora del Ciclo Internacional de Órgano en Santa Engracia de Zaragoza. Directora de proyectos culturales de la Fundación Hernando de Aragón, coordinadora de las Jornadas de Música en torno a Verdi del Palacio de la Aljafería en las Cortes de Aragón, Directora artística del Festival de Música Antigua ZaragozaTresCulturas, impulsora, colaboradora y pianista del proyecto pedagógico “Cantania” del Gobierno de Aragón. Colaboradora en Onda Cero Aragón en el programa especial de Música y del periódico HoyAragón en la sección de cultura, profesora y coordinadora de los cursos de Historia de la Música de Ibercaja “Patio de la Infanta” y profesora de Historia de la música y de Órgano del Conservatorio profesional de Música de Teruel.
Natural de Zaragoza, inicia sus estudios en el Conservatorio de su ciudad natal en donde obtiene el título profesional de piano. A continuación, comienza sus estudios de Órgano y Clavicémbalo en el Conservatorio Superior de Aragón obteniendo las titulaciones superiores en las especialidades de Órgano y Clavicémbalo. Así mismo obtiene las titulaciones superiores de Solfeo y Teoría de la Música y Pedagogía Musical. Tras finalizar sus estudios se traslada a Barcelona para recibir clases de perfeccionamiento con Montserrat Torrent.
En 1998 y 2001 asiste a los cursos de interpretación organizados por el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (C.S.I.C.) en Barcelona, donde obtiene el Post-Graduado y Especialización en “Música Antigua para Tecla”. De 2002 a 2005 amplía su formación musical en Europa cursando estudios de especialización en Órgano y Clavicordio con Heinrich Walther en Freiburg (Alemania), con Michael Bouvard en Toulouse (Francia), Ignace Michiels en Brujas (Bégica) y Pianoforte con Bart Van Oort (Holanda).
En 2015 obtiene el Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (D.E.A.) en el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Zaragoza) con la calificación de sobresaliente por su novedoso trabajo titulado “La construcción de arquetipos en el cine a través de los instrumentos antiguos de tecla. Funciones y significado de los instrumentos antiguos en la escena” y en 2020 obtiene el Master de Musicología por la Universidad de la Rioja con prácticas externas en el Auditorio de Zaragoza. Actualmente continúa con el doctorado en la Universidad de Valladolid en colaboración con la Universidad de Burdeos y en la Universidad de las Artes de Gante (Bélgica).
Como intérprete solista y de cámara ha participado en ciclos nacionales e internacionales.
Como pedagoga ha participado en diferentes cursos y ponencias, teniendo como uno de sus principales objetivos, la conservación y difusión del patrimonio musical de Aragón y como pianista acompañante colabora con distintas formaciones instrumentales con órgano, clave, pianoforte y piano moderno. Directora del Ciclo Internacional de Órgano en Santa Engracia de Zaragoza. Directora de proyectos culturales de la Fundación Hernando de Aragón, coordinadora de las Jornadas de Música en torno a Verdi del Palacio de la Aljafería en las Cortes de Aragón, Directora artística del Festival de Música Antigua ZaragozaTresCulturas, impulsora, colaboradora y pianista del proyecto pedagógico “Cantania” del Gobierno de Aragón. Colaboradora en Onda Cero Aragón en el programa especial de Música y del periódico HoyAragón en la sección de cultura, profesora y coordinadora de los cursos de Historia de la Música de Ibercaja “Patio de la Infanta” y profesora de Historia de la música y de Órgano del Conservatorio profesional de Música de Teruel.
GABRIELE STUDER (ITALIA), nato ad Alba nel 1982, ha studiato organo e composizione organistica al Civico Istituto Musicale “Lodovico Rocca” di Alba. È in seguito diventato allievo dell’Accademia Superiore di Musica “Schola Cantorum” di Parigi dove ha conseguito il “Diplôme de Concert” avec la mention “Très bien à l’unanimité et félicitations du jury” sotto la guida del M° Jean-Paul IMBERT, con il quale ha anche ottenuto a pieni voti il “Diplôme d'Études Musicales” e il primo premio all’unanimità in Basso continuo presso il “Conservatoire à rayonnement régional” di Versailles. Ha inoltre studiato improvvisazione organistica al “Conservatoire National de Région de Saint-Maur” nei pressi di Parigi nella classe del M° Pierre PINCEMAILLE. Ha conseguito anche la laurea magistrale specialistica di II livello in organo e composizione organistica presso il Conservatorio “Giorgio Federico GHEDINI” di Cuneo, con la valutazione di 110 e lode, nella classe del M° Bartolomeo GALLIZIO.
Ha frequentato numerosi masterclasses di perfezionamento con il M° Jean-Paul IMBERT (Alpe d’Huez - Francia), con il M° Massimo NOSETTI (Alessandria e Messina), con il M° Olivier LATRY (Cuneo) e con il M° David BRIGGS (Roma).
Ha intrapreso una brillante attività concertistica come solista ed in varie formazioni, che lo ha portato ad esibirsi in Italia, Francia, Belgio, Svizzera e Regno Unito.
Molto interessato alla trascrizione, ha effettuato diversi arrangiamenti per organo di opere orchestrali, già eseguiti in Italia e all’estero, tra i quali il celebre Schizzo Sinfonico “Nelle Steppe dell’Asia Centrale” di Aleksandr BORODIN pubblicato dalle Edizioni ARMELIN MUSICA di Padova, ed incisa sia dal M° Jean-Paul IMBERT all’ organo della Chiesa di Notre-Dame de bon Voyage a Cannes (Francia), che dal M° Frédéric BLANC all’organo della Chiesa di Notre-Dame d’Auteuil à Parigi. Ha inciso un CD interamente dedicato alle opere del compositore italiano Enrico PASINI.
Ricopre inoltre l’incarico di organista titolare presso la Chiesa di Cristo Re di Alba.
Ha frequentato numerosi masterclasses di perfezionamento con il M° Jean-Paul IMBERT (Alpe d’Huez - Francia), con il M° Massimo NOSETTI (Alessandria e Messina), con il M° Olivier LATRY (Cuneo) e con il M° David BRIGGS (Roma).
Ha intrapreso una brillante attività concertistica come solista ed in varie formazioni, che lo ha portato ad esibirsi in Italia, Francia, Belgio, Svizzera e Regno Unito.
Molto interessato alla trascrizione, ha effettuato diversi arrangiamenti per organo di opere orchestrali, già eseguiti in Italia e all’estero, tra i quali il celebre Schizzo Sinfonico “Nelle Steppe dell’Asia Centrale” di Aleksandr BORODIN pubblicato dalle Edizioni ARMELIN MUSICA di Padova, ed incisa sia dal M° Jean-Paul IMBERT all’ organo della Chiesa di Notre-Dame de bon Voyage a Cannes (Francia), che dal M° Frédéric BLANC all’organo della Chiesa di Notre-Dame d’Auteuil à Parigi. Ha inciso un CD interamente dedicato alle opere del compositore italiano Enrico PASINI.
Ricopre inoltre l’incarico di organista titolare presso la Chiesa di Cristo Re di Alba.
FABIANA CIAMPI (ITALIA), Organista, pianista e cembalista, ha ottenuto una borsa di studio per perfezionarsi a Londra presso la Royal Academy of Music e successivamente per studiare al Royal College of Music, conseguendo il diploma in "Early Music Studies" with honour. Ha frequentato corsi di perfezionamento con molti artisti di fama, in particolare, per la parte organistica, ha seguito i corsi di Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Guy Bovet e Monika Henking. E' stata invitata a suonare in varie rassegne sia come solista che in ensemble (Bologna, Ferrara, Pistoia, Como, Piacenza, Verona, Senigallia, Cagliari, Berlino, Londra, Edimburgo, Las Palmas). Ha collaborato con Giorgio Piombini alla realizzazione della rassegna organistica "Itinerari organistici nella provincia di Bologna" giunta quest'anno alla XXX edizione. E' presidente dell'Associazione Arsarmonica, fondata con lo scopo di tutelare il prezioso patrimonio degli organi antichi in area bolognese e diffondere la cultura musicale nel territorio provinciale. Si è laureata presso il Conservatorio “G.B. Martini” di Bologna (Laurea sperimentale di II livello in Organo Antico) con una tesi sulle arie e balli popolari del XVII secolo nelle trascrizioni per strumenti a tastiera (2009). Proseguirà i suoi studi a Ginevra seguendo gli insegnamenti del Prof. Etienne Darbellay (Dottorato di Ricerca, 2013). Ha collaborato con Paul Kenyon all'edizione critica dei brani per tastiera di Ercole Pasquini (Suvini Zerboni editore). E’ stata più volte registrata da Rai 3 regionale e nazionale per i suoi concerti ed interviste, dalla BBC e da emittenti private. Ha inciso e scritto per le case discografiche Tactus e Bongiovanni. Attualmente insegna Teoria, ritmica e percezione musicale e Acustica musicale presso il Conservatorio “G. Nicolini” di Piacenza.
RONAN McQUADE. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1999, Ronan is a seminarian in Rome, studying at the Pontifical Scots College. Before seminary, he was the organist in his local parish. Additionally, he has given solo recitals and played for various services in notable churches throughout Scotland. He received organ lessons from David Hamilton, keyboard lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He now takes the role as organist of the Pontifical Scots College, through which he tries to motivate a high standard of liturgical music. He is most passionate about giving life to the Sacred Liturgy, through improvisation, Gregorian chant and choral repertoire accompaniment and the performance of solo organ works.
THOMAS DAVID WRIGHT (USA), was appointed Director of Liturgical Music and Organist of St. Francis of Assisi Church in Uptown New Orleans in 2008. In addition to accompanying liturgies, he conducts the Schola Cantorum. Thomas holds an undergraduate degree in Organ Performance from Louisiana Tech University where he studied with McCoy Ransom. He holds an MBA in international business from the University of New Orleans. His Ph.D. is in Mathematics Curriculum and Instruction; he is a full-time professor of mathematics.
MICHAEL C. BOWER, a native of Floyd, Virginia, began formal piano lessons at age 6 and was playing for Sunday school services in his home church by 12. He began teaching himself to play the organ at age 13 and held his first position as church organist in a German Lutheran church at age 15.
Mr. Bower received his Bachelor’s degree in Sacred Music and Organ Performance from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, where he studied organ with Donald McDonald, harpsichord with Mark Brombaugh, and conduction with Joseph Flummerfelt. During his undergraduate years, Mr. Bower pursued additional organ study with Marilyn Keiser of Indiana University and boys choir training with James Litton, director of the American Boys Choir, Princeton and Gerre Hancock, St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York. He was also a member of Donald Allured’s Concert Handbell Choir.
In 1985 he was appointed Associate Director of Music for St. Agnes Cathedral. At this time, he assisted in the development of a professional music program, including multiple choirs. He founded the Cathedral Girls Choir and directed the probationer group of the Boys Choir.
In 1987, he continued specialized studies in organ and boys choir training with Stephen Cleobury at Kings College, Cambridge and conducting with John Rutter at Clare College, Cambridge, England.
Michael earned his Master’s Degree in Organ Performance from Manhattan School of Music in 1992 where he studied organ with John Walker, baroque continuo with Kenneth Cooper, and conducting with Amy Keiser. He has performed organ recitals on the East Coast, the Mid-West, Germany, Austria, Italy, and France. He is a regular concert organ soloist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York and guest organist for the Long Island Choral Society of Garden City. Mr. Bower also performed Ned Rorem’s “Quaker Reader” in concert at Columbia University as part of a festival celebrating the composer’s 75th birthday in 1998. He has been a regional workshop clinician in choral vocal production, boys choirs, and organ performance.
Michael’s duties at St. Agnes Cathedral include directing the 105 voice Choir of Men and Boys, the 80 voice Cathedral Chorale (Adult), and the Schola Cantorum (16 voice a cappella ensemble). He has prepared and conducted the Cathedral Choirs and Orchestra in performances of many choral masterworks including Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Haydn’s Harmoniemesse, and Mozart’s Regina Coeli (K 127).
He has also toured with the Choir of Men and Boys to sing at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City, The White House, and the Cathedral Basilica of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In 1998, he prepared the Cathedral Chorale for a performance at Carnegie Hall conducted by John Rutter. In 2000, Michael prepared the Chorale and other Rockville Centre choral singers for a millennium performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Michael is the Dean of the Nassau County Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and a member of the International Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians and the Diocesan Liturgy Commission of Rockville Centre.
His hobbies include: gardening, vintage house restoration, interior decoration and house design, collecting and restoring antique furniture and objects d’art, painting, travel, water skiing, fishing, hunting, biking and singing!
Mr. Bower received his Bachelor’s degree in Sacred Music and Organ Performance from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, where he studied organ with Donald McDonald, harpsichord with Mark Brombaugh, and conduction with Joseph Flummerfelt. During his undergraduate years, Mr. Bower pursued additional organ study with Marilyn Keiser of Indiana University and boys choir training with James Litton, director of the American Boys Choir, Princeton and Gerre Hancock, St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York. He was also a member of Donald Allured’s Concert Handbell Choir.
In 1985 he was appointed Associate Director of Music for St. Agnes Cathedral. At this time, he assisted in the development of a professional music program, including multiple choirs. He founded the Cathedral Girls Choir and directed the probationer group of the Boys Choir.
In 1987, he continued specialized studies in organ and boys choir training with Stephen Cleobury at Kings College, Cambridge and conducting with John Rutter at Clare College, Cambridge, England.
Michael earned his Master’s Degree in Organ Performance from Manhattan School of Music in 1992 where he studied organ with John Walker, baroque continuo with Kenneth Cooper, and conducting with Amy Keiser. He has performed organ recitals on the East Coast, the Mid-West, Germany, Austria, Italy, and France. He is a regular concert organ soloist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York and guest organist for the Long Island Choral Society of Garden City. Mr. Bower also performed Ned Rorem’s “Quaker Reader” in concert at Columbia University as part of a festival celebrating the composer’s 75th birthday in 1998. He has been a regional workshop clinician in choral vocal production, boys choirs, and organ performance.
Michael’s duties at St. Agnes Cathedral include directing the 105 voice Choir of Men and Boys, the 80 voice Cathedral Chorale (Adult), and the Schola Cantorum (16 voice a cappella ensemble). He has prepared and conducted the Cathedral Choirs and Orchestra in performances of many choral masterworks including Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Haydn’s Harmoniemesse, and Mozart’s Regina Coeli (K 127).
He has also toured with the Choir of Men and Boys to sing at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City, The White House, and the Cathedral Basilica of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In 1998, he prepared the Cathedral Chorale for a performance at Carnegie Hall conducted by John Rutter. In 2000, Michael prepared the Chorale and other Rockville Centre choral singers for a millennium performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Michael is the Dean of the Nassau County Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and a member of the International Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians and the Diocesan Liturgy Commission of Rockville Centre.
His hobbies include: gardening, vintage house restoration, interior decoration and house design, collecting and restoring antique furniture and objects d’art, painting, travel, water skiing, fishing, hunting, biking and singing!
LYNNE DAVIS. Though American by birth, Lynne Davis’ career has been steeped in French music, culture, and style. Her career was launched by taking First Prize at the 1975 St. Albans International Organ Competition in England – the eighth organist to receive that honor since the competition’s founding in 1962. Now a leading international concert artist and master teacher, she has performed in nearly every cathedral in France, numerous major cities throughout Europe, and from coast to coast in the United States. Her activities have included being a featured performer and lecturer at two national conventions of the American Guild of Organists, a member of Chartres, Dallas, St. Albans, Taraverdiev (Russia), and Montréal international organ competition juries, and giving master classes and lectures about French organ literature and its history.
From the late 1970’s until 2006, Lynne Davis made France her home, having married Frenchman and Chartres International Organ Competition founder Pierre Firmin-Didot. The couple played a major role in the French organ music scene, initiating among other things the famous 1992 exhibition and recording of “Les Orgues de Paris”. Her unique living and vast working experience as well as her lineage of study in France makes her an authority in all French organ repertoire and many other European composers.
She holds the “Certificat d’Aptitude de Professeur d’Orgue” awarded by the Republic of France. A highly regarded teacher, she served as organ professor at the Conservatory of Music in Clamart, near Paris from 1990-2006 and from 1997 to 2006 at the French National Regional Conservatory in Caen in Normandy. In 2006 she returned to the United States and that summer was appointed Associate Professor of Organ, holding the Robert L. Town Distinguished Professor of Organ chair at the Wichita State University School of Music in Kansas. In addition to heading the organ program, she is producer and artistic director of the Rie Bloomfield Organ Series, “Distinguished Guest Artists”, and the “Wednesdays in Wiedemann” series she created in 2007 (for which she performs monthly half-hour organ recitals) which are videotaped for YouTube.
Lynne Davis’s recordings include discs, radio broadcasts and live performances, including those on the famed organ at Chartres Cathedral. Her disc, “Musique pour Cathédrales”, released on the Quantum label, won the coveted 5 Diapasons award in France. Other Chartres recordings by Ms. Davis’ include Jehan ALAIN et Maurice DURUFLE and a varied program of Raison, Bach, Vierne, Roger-Ducasse and Litaize. “Lynne Davis en Concert” was made on the world-renowned Cavaillé-Coll organ at the church of St. Etienne in Caen in Normandy. Her most recent CD, is “Lynne Davis at the Marcussen organ in Wiedemann Hall” at Wichita State University was released in 2010. All of her recitals at Wichita State University since 2006 have been recorded “live” and are archived there.
Ms. Davis graduated with honors in organ performance from the University of Michigan where she studied with Robert Clark. Shortly thereafter, she moved to France and for eight years she studied with Marie-Claire Alain. While there she also studied with Jean Langlais, Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé, André Fleury, Gaston Litaize, and Edouard Souberbielle and partook in classes with numerous other great European master organists.
In 2011, Lynne Davis received the Excellence in Creativity Award from Wichita State University. Following the immense success of the American Alain Festival which she organized at Wichita State University to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jehan Alain, she was awarded as a French citizen the prestigious distinction of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication in 2012. In 2013, she received the medal of the city of Wichita from Mayor Carl Brewer and in 2016, the Burton Pell award from the Wichita Arts Council.
From the late 1970’s until 2006, Lynne Davis made France her home, having married Frenchman and Chartres International Organ Competition founder Pierre Firmin-Didot. The couple played a major role in the French organ music scene, initiating among other things the famous 1992 exhibition and recording of “Les Orgues de Paris”. Her unique living and vast working experience as well as her lineage of study in France makes her an authority in all French organ repertoire and many other European composers.
She holds the “Certificat d’Aptitude de Professeur d’Orgue” awarded by the Republic of France. A highly regarded teacher, she served as organ professor at the Conservatory of Music in Clamart, near Paris from 1990-2006 and from 1997 to 2006 at the French National Regional Conservatory in Caen in Normandy. In 2006 she returned to the United States and that summer was appointed Associate Professor of Organ, holding the Robert L. Town Distinguished Professor of Organ chair at the Wichita State University School of Music in Kansas. In addition to heading the organ program, she is producer and artistic director of the Rie Bloomfield Organ Series, “Distinguished Guest Artists”, and the “Wednesdays in Wiedemann” series she created in 2007 (for which she performs monthly half-hour organ recitals) which are videotaped for YouTube.
Lynne Davis’s recordings include discs, radio broadcasts and live performances, including those on the famed organ at Chartres Cathedral. Her disc, “Musique pour Cathédrales”, released on the Quantum label, won the coveted 5 Diapasons award in France. Other Chartres recordings by Ms. Davis’ include Jehan ALAIN et Maurice DURUFLE and a varied program of Raison, Bach, Vierne, Roger-Ducasse and Litaize. “Lynne Davis en Concert” was made on the world-renowned Cavaillé-Coll organ at the church of St. Etienne in Caen in Normandy. Her most recent CD, is “Lynne Davis at the Marcussen organ in Wiedemann Hall” at Wichita State University was released in 2010. All of her recitals at Wichita State University since 2006 have been recorded “live” and are archived there.
Ms. Davis graduated with honors in organ performance from the University of Michigan where she studied with Robert Clark. Shortly thereafter, she moved to France and for eight years she studied with Marie-Claire Alain. While there she also studied with Jean Langlais, Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé, André Fleury, Gaston Litaize, and Edouard Souberbielle and partook in classes with numerous other great European master organists.
In 2011, Lynne Davis received the Excellence in Creativity Award from Wichita State University. Following the immense success of the American Alain Festival which she organized at Wichita State University to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jehan Alain, she was awarded as a French citizen the prestigious distinction of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication in 2012. In 2013, she received the medal of the city of Wichita from Mayor Carl Brewer and in 2016, the Burton Pell award from the Wichita Arts Council.
ARTURO BARBA SEVILLANO desarrolla una intensa actividad concertística realizando recitales en festivales de órgano tan emblemáticos como los de la Catedral Católica de Moscú, Catedral de Notre Dame de París, Catedral de Colonia, Basílica de Sta. María in Trastevere de Roma, Festival de órganos históricos de Venecia, Catedral de Cali o Catedral de Lausanne, así como en importantes ciclos de órgano de España, Alemania, Portugal, Holanda, Francia, Rusia, Suiza, Colombia e Italia. Ha tocado recitales en numerosos órganos históricos europeos (Schnitger, Silbermann, Callido, Nacchini, Cavaillé-Coll, Merklin, Bosch, Echevarria, etc.), trasladando a sus interpretaciones la experiencia adquirida en estos famosos instrumentos históricos.
Tras más de diez años colaborando con la Orquesta de Valencia y con la Orquesta del Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofía de Valencia, ha interpretado la práctica totalidad del repertorio sinfónico con órgano junto a directores como Zubin Mehta, Fabio Biondi, Michel Plasson, Cristóbal Halffter, James Gaffigan, Josep Pons, Ramón Tebar, Plácido Domingo, Gustavo Gimeno, N. Luisotti, L. Yu, E. García Asensio, Y. Traub, J. Belohlavek, G. Pehlivanian, H. Nánási, Ch. Franklin, M. A. Gómez-Martínez, entre otros. Arturo Barba ha realizado grabaciones en directo para RNE-Radio Clásica así como varios registros discográficos como solista, destacando "Bach y su tiempo en el órgano del Palau" (grabado en el órgano Grenzing del Palau de la Música de Valencia) y "Europa suena desde el corazón de Castilla" (grabado en el órgano histórico de Elche de la Sierra).
Natural de Valencia, cursó estudios superiores de órgano y piano en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia (CSMV) finalizando la especialidad de órgano con Matrícula de Honor y Premio Extraordinario Fin de Carrera por unanimidad bajo la dirección del catedrático Vicente Ros. Amplía estudios en Madrid y participa en numerosos cursos internacionales, trabajando con T. Koopman, J. Laukvik, L. van Doesselaar y E. Kooiman (Bach); L. F. Tagliavini, R. Alessandrini (música italiana); M. Bouvard y O. Latry (música francesa); M. Torrent (música ibérica); L.Chiantore, J. Achúcarro, D. Bashkirov, J. Colom y K. & M. Labèque (piano).
Arturo Barba es Doctor cum laude por la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), donde obtiene también el título de Arquitecto. Profesor de Conservatorio por oposición, ha ejercido docencia de grado y máster en el CSMV y en la UPV durante más de diez años; y ha estado al frente del Departamento de Tecla del Conservatorio Profesional de Valencia durante cinco años. Recientemente ha sido publicado su nombramiento como Catedrático. Actualmente imparte clases en el Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Torrent, labor docente que compagina con su actividad concertística y con la dirección artística de diferentes festivales internacionales de órgano de la Comunidad Valenciana.
Tras más de diez años colaborando con la Orquesta de Valencia y con la Orquesta del Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofía de Valencia, ha interpretado la práctica totalidad del repertorio sinfónico con órgano junto a directores como Zubin Mehta, Fabio Biondi, Michel Plasson, Cristóbal Halffter, James Gaffigan, Josep Pons, Ramón Tebar, Plácido Domingo, Gustavo Gimeno, N. Luisotti, L. Yu, E. García Asensio, Y. Traub, J. Belohlavek, G. Pehlivanian, H. Nánási, Ch. Franklin, M. A. Gómez-Martínez, entre otros. Arturo Barba ha realizado grabaciones en directo para RNE-Radio Clásica así como varios registros discográficos como solista, destacando "Bach y su tiempo en el órgano del Palau" (grabado en el órgano Grenzing del Palau de la Música de Valencia) y "Europa suena desde el corazón de Castilla" (grabado en el órgano histórico de Elche de la Sierra).
Natural de Valencia, cursó estudios superiores de órgano y piano en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia (CSMV) finalizando la especialidad de órgano con Matrícula de Honor y Premio Extraordinario Fin de Carrera por unanimidad bajo la dirección del catedrático Vicente Ros. Amplía estudios en Madrid y participa en numerosos cursos internacionales, trabajando con T. Koopman, J. Laukvik, L. van Doesselaar y E. Kooiman (Bach); L. F. Tagliavini, R. Alessandrini (música italiana); M. Bouvard y O. Latry (música francesa); M. Torrent (música ibérica); L.Chiantore, J. Achúcarro, D. Bashkirov, J. Colom y K. & M. Labèque (piano).
Arturo Barba es Doctor cum laude por la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), donde obtiene también el título de Arquitecto. Profesor de Conservatorio por oposición, ha ejercido docencia de grado y máster en el CSMV y en la UPV durante más de diez años; y ha estado al frente del Departamento de Tecla del Conservatorio Profesional de Valencia durante cinco años. Recientemente ha sido publicado su nombramiento como Catedrático. Actualmente imparte clases en el Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Torrent, labor docente que compagina con su actividad concertística y con la dirección artística de diferentes festivales internacionales de órgano de la Comunidad Valenciana.
RONALD EBRECHT, Wesleyan University Organist, has appeared to critical acclaim for three decades over a territory that spans four continents. He has given master classes and lectures in world-famous conservatories such as Vienna, Sydney, Beijing and across the U.S. He is particularly known for his interpretations of the first editions of Maurice Duruflé.
CRAIG S. WILLIAMS is Organist and Choirmaster of the Cadet Chapel, United States Military Academy West Point, where he plays the world’s largest church all-pipe organ and directs the Cadet Chapel Choir. He is only the fourth organist to hold that position since the present Cadet Chapel building was erected in 1910.
At West Point, Mr. Williams oversees the music programs of five chapels, in which are given well over 400 services, concerts and various other functions annually. Personally, Mr. Williams performs at approximately 200 of these chapel functions, including worship services, weddings, funerals, class reunion memorial services, recitals, choir concerts and VIP organ demonstrations performing for royalty, cabinet members, generals, members of Congress and many other international government and military figures. He has been featured on television numerous times including his recent appearance on Fox News’ West Point Holiday Special which received over 2,000,000 views, and he also appears as organist on the West Point Glee Club’s DVD Stand Ye Steady.
Mr. Williams has performed on both organ and piano for over 40 years and continues to perform nationwide. His organ credits include performances at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, several appearances at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, and at Segerstrom Hall in Orange County, CA with the Pacific Chorale. His most recent appearance at Segerstrom Hall was in a concert, Superstar Organ Virtuosos, where he shared the stage with Paul Jacobs, Frederick Swann, Christoph Bull and members of the Pacific Symphony. Mr. Williams has also played on the summer series at the Riverside Church in New York, the Crystal Cathedral, and Ocean Grove Auditorium; and he continues to give numerous recitals and workshops for prominent cathedrals and churches on both coasts. In 2021, he played a recital in Usurbil, Spain, as guest artist in the Quincena Musical de San Sebastián and will be playing recitals in Italy during the fall of 2023.
Mr. Williams is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists and served as dean of the Central Hudson Valley chapter from 2012 to 2016. In the early 90’s, he served as dean of the Brooklyn Chapter. Also, he has been a featured performer for conventions held by the AGO and the American Institute of Organbuilders.
Mr. Williams received the masters in organ performance from Westminster Choir College where he was one of three of the first Currin Scholars, a full graduate level scholarship, studying with Eugene Roan. His piano performance degrees include the masters from the Juilliard School, studying with Martin Canin, where he performed with the Juilliard Symphony at Lincoln Center; and the bachelors from the University of Southern California, studying with Daniel Pollack.
In addition to his duties at West Point, he served as adjunct professor of organ at Nyack College (Nyack, NY) and conservatory faculty at Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ) for 19 years. He is devoted to his wife, Lee, and the proud father of Abigail and Stewart.
At West Point, Mr. Williams oversees the music programs of five chapels, in which are given well over 400 services, concerts and various other functions annually. Personally, Mr. Williams performs at approximately 200 of these chapel functions, including worship services, weddings, funerals, class reunion memorial services, recitals, choir concerts and VIP organ demonstrations performing for royalty, cabinet members, generals, members of Congress and many other international government and military figures. He has been featured on television numerous times including his recent appearance on Fox News’ West Point Holiday Special which received over 2,000,000 views, and he also appears as organist on the West Point Glee Club’s DVD Stand Ye Steady.
Mr. Williams has performed on both organ and piano for over 40 years and continues to perform nationwide. His organ credits include performances at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, several appearances at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, and at Segerstrom Hall in Orange County, CA with the Pacific Chorale. His most recent appearance at Segerstrom Hall was in a concert, Superstar Organ Virtuosos, where he shared the stage with Paul Jacobs, Frederick Swann, Christoph Bull and members of the Pacific Symphony. Mr. Williams has also played on the summer series at the Riverside Church in New York, the Crystal Cathedral, and Ocean Grove Auditorium; and he continues to give numerous recitals and workshops for prominent cathedrals and churches on both coasts. In 2021, he played a recital in Usurbil, Spain, as guest artist in the Quincena Musical de San Sebastián and will be playing recitals in Italy during the fall of 2023.
Mr. Williams is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists and served as dean of the Central Hudson Valley chapter from 2012 to 2016. In the early 90’s, he served as dean of the Brooklyn Chapter. Also, he has been a featured performer for conventions held by the AGO and the American Institute of Organbuilders.
Mr. Williams received the masters in organ performance from Westminster Choir College where he was one of three of the first Currin Scholars, a full graduate level scholarship, studying with Eugene Roan. His piano performance degrees include the masters from the Juilliard School, studying with Martin Canin, where he performed with the Juilliard Symphony at Lincoln Center; and the bachelors from the University of Southern California, studying with Daniel Pollack.
In addition to his duties at West Point, he served as adjunct professor of organ at Nyack College (Nyack, NY) and conservatory faculty at Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ) for 19 years. He is devoted to his wife, Lee, and the proud father of Abigail and Stewart.
Dr. JENNIFER PASCUAL was appointed Director of Music at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City in 2003. She is the first woman to hold this position, one of the most prestigious sacred music appointments in the United States.
Jennifer earned a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where she studied with David Higgs and taught undergraduate theory courses. She holds a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from the Mannes College of Music in New York City where she studied with Nina Svetlanova and studied organ privately with Mc Neil Robinson. She received the Bachelor of Music Degrees in Piano and Organ Performance, magna cum laude, and Music Education from Jacksonville University in Florida where she studied with Mary Lou Wesley Krosnick and William Saunders and taught both organ and piano in the University’s Continuing Education Department.
Jennifer was on the Artistic Staff of the Boys Choir of Harlem, Inc. from 1994 to 2003. She has served as an organist and choir director in the Dioceses of St. Augustine (FL) and Rochester (NY), and the Archdioceses of Newark (NJ) and New York (NY), and has served at three Roman Catholic Cathedrals. Dr. Pascual served as Professor and Director of Music of St. Joseph’s Seminary and College in New York from 2007 to 2014. She currently also serves as the Director of Music of the New York Archdiocesan Festival Chorale.
Dr. Pascual is a member of the American Guild of Organists; Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians, having previously served on the Steering Committee; Liturgical Organists Consortium; EastWest Organists; Liturgy Committee for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC; and National Association of Pastoral Musicians, where she served on the National Board and is a frequent recitalist and clinician at national conventions.
She was a finalist in the 1990 Florida First Coast Piano Competition, performed Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Jacksonville University Community Orchestra in 1993 while also a French Horn player in the orchestra, performed in the 1995 Bach Aria Festival in New York, was a featured soloist in the 2004 and 2012 International Bamboo Organ Festival in Manila. In 2013, she was the first American invited to perform in the VI Royal Christmas International Festival in Moscow and the regions of Russia. Jennifer served as a juror during the 2014 Organ Festival at the Catholic Cathedral in Moscow and was one of the organists for the November 2015 dedication of first pipe organ installation in the Far East Russian Federation in Vladivostok. She is a recipient of the Paderewski Medal and Theodore Presser Award. Jennifer has performed in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Spain, Vatican City, and throughout the United States.
In April 2008, she had the privilege of overseeing all of the liturgical music for His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI during his Pastoral Visit to New York in addition to conducting music for the Masses at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Yankee Stadium and the Ecumenical Service at St. Joseph’s Church. Two weeks later, Jennifer conducted the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir for President Bush at the White House for the National Day of Prayer. She also conducted two performances during that Christmas season at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In April 2009, Dr. Pascual conducted all of the music for the Installation Liturgies of Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan. Under her direction, the New York Archdiocesan Festival Chorale travelled to Rome and Vatican City to sing for the June 2009 Pallium Pilgrimage of Archbishop Dolan, the February 2012 Consistory Pilgrimage of Cardinal Dolan, and the April 2016 New York Year of Mercy Pilgrimage led by Cardinal Dolan. They have also travelled to Austria, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Jordan and the Philippines under her direction. In 2010, the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir was the only American choir invited to participate in the IX Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra in Rome and Vatican City. In September 2015, Dr. Pascual oversaw all liturgical music for His Holiness, Pope Francis, during his Pastoral Visit to New York. She conducted the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir and Orchestra for Evening Prayer (Vespers) with Pope Francis at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. She also conducted them, together with the New York Archdiocesan Festival Chorale, for Mass celebrated by the Holy Father at Madison Square Garden.
In December 2008, Dr. Pascual was named a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great in recognition of service to the Church. She was the 2018 recipient of the Paul Creston Award. She was a 2019 recipient of the Linda Berry Stein College of Fine Arts Honored Alumni Award of Jacksonville University. In 2021, Jacksonville University conferred a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree, honoris causa, upon Jennifer.
With the broadcast of live Mass from St. Patrick’s Cathedral on The Catholic Channel, SiriusXM 129, the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir, which she conducts, can be heard from 10:15am–11:30am on Sundays from September to June. She also hosts a radio talk and music show called “Sounds from the Spires” broadcast on the same channel, Saturdays, 1:00am–2:00am and 11:00pm–12:00am and Sundays, 6:00am–7:00am and 5:00pm–6:00pm (all Eastern times). Her Organ Music & Gregorian Chant; Christmas Music for Trumpets and Organ; and Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee (choir) CDs from St. Patrick's Cathedral on the JAV label are available at pipe-organ-recordings.com. Jennifer is also an organist on the World Library Publication 8-CD recording of Psalms and Ritual Music.
Jennifer earned a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where she studied with David Higgs and taught undergraduate theory courses. She holds a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from the Mannes College of Music in New York City where she studied with Nina Svetlanova and studied organ privately with Mc Neil Robinson. She received the Bachelor of Music Degrees in Piano and Organ Performance, magna cum laude, and Music Education from Jacksonville University in Florida where she studied with Mary Lou Wesley Krosnick and William Saunders and taught both organ and piano in the University’s Continuing Education Department.
Jennifer was on the Artistic Staff of the Boys Choir of Harlem, Inc. from 1994 to 2003. She has served as an organist and choir director in the Dioceses of St. Augustine (FL) and Rochester (NY), and the Archdioceses of Newark (NJ) and New York (NY), and has served at three Roman Catholic Cathedrals. Dr. Pascual served as Professor and Director of Music of St. Joseph’s Seminary and College in New York from 2007 to 2014. She currently also serves as the Director of Music of the New York Archdiocesan Festival Chorale.
Dr. Pascual is a member of the American Guild of Organists; Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians, having previously served on the Steering Committee; Liturgical Organists Consortium; EastWest Organists; Liturgy Committee for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC; and National Association of Pastoral Musicians, where she served on the National Board and is a frequent recitalist and clinician at national conventions.
She was a finalist in the 1990 Florida First Coast Piano Competition, performed Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Jacksonville University Community Orchestra in 1993 while also a French Horn player in the orchestra, performed in the 1995 Bach Aria Festival in New York, was a featured soloist in the 2004 and 2012 International Bamboo Organ Festival in Manila. In 2013, she was the first American invited to perform in the VI Royal Christmas International Festival in Moscow and the regions of Russia. Jennifer served as a juror during the 2014 Organ Festival at the Catholic Cathedral in Moscow and was one of the organists for the November 2015 dedication of first pipe organ installation in the Far East Russian Federation in Vladivostok. She is a recipient of the Paderewski Medal and Theodore Presser Award. Jennifer has performed in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Spain, Vatican City, and throughout the United States.
In April 2008, she had the privilege of overseeing all of the liturgical music for His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI during his Pastoral Visit to New York in addition to conducting music for the Masses at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Yankee Stadium and the Ecumenical Service at St. Joseph’s Church. Two weeks later, Jennifer conducted the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir for President Bush at the White House for the National Day of Prayer. She also conducted two performances during that Christmas season at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In April 2009, Dr. Pascual conducted all of the music for the Installation Liturgies of Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan. Under her direction, the New York Archdiocesan Festival Chorale travelled to Rome and Vatican City to sing for the June 2009 Pallium Pilgrimage of Archbishop Dolan, the February 2012 Consistory Pilgrimage of Cardinal Dolan, and the April 2016 New York Year of Mercy Pilgrimage led by Cardinal Dolan. They have also travelled to Austria, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Jordan and the Philippines under her direction. In 2010, the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir was the only American choir invited to participate in the IX Festival Internazionale di Musica e Arte Sacra in Rome and Vatican City. In September 2015, Dr. Pascual oversaw all liturgical music for His Holiness, Pope Francis, during his Pastoral Visit to New York. She conducted the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir and Orchestra for Evening Prayer (Vespers) with Pope Francis at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. She also conducted them, together with the New York Archdiocesan Festival Chorale, for Mass celebrated by the Holy Father at Madison Square Garden.
In December 2008, Dr. Pascual was named a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great in recognition of service to the Church. She was the 2018 recipient of the Paul Creston Award. She was a 2019 recipient of the Linda Berry Stein College of Fine Arts Honored Alumni Award of Jacksonville University. In 2021, Jacksonville University conferred a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree, honoris causa, upon Jennifer.
With the broadcast of live Mass from St. Patrick’s Cathedral on The Catholic Channel, SiriusXM 129, the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir, which she conducts, can be heard from 10:15am–11:30am on Sundays from September to June. She also hosts a radio talk and music show called “Sounds from the Spires” broadcast on the same channel, Saturdays, 1:00am–2:00am and 11:00pm–12:00am and Sundays, 6:00am–7:00am and 5:00pm–6:00pm (all Eastern times). Her Organ Music & Gregorian Chant; Christmas Music for Trumpets and Organ; and Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee (choir) CDs from St. Patrick's Cathedral on the JAV label are available at pipe-organ-recordings.com. Jennifer is also an organist on the World Library Publication 8-CD recording of Psalms and Ritual Music.
KAROL MOSSAKOWSKI est reconnu tant pour ses qualités d’interprète que d’improvisateur. Premier prix du concours du Printemps de Prague et Grand Prix de Chartres, il mène une carrière internationale très active dans ces deux champs qu’il ne cesse de nourrir mutuellement. En février 2023 il est nommé organiste titulaire du prestigieux grand orgue Aristide Cavaillé-Coll de Saint-Sulpice à Paris, prenant la suite d’une lignée de musiciens notamment marquée par les figures de Charles-Marie Widor, Marcel Dupré et Daniel Roth.
Karol Mossakowski se produit régulièrement dans des salles telles que la Philharmonie de Paris, l’Auditorium de Radio France, l’Auditorium de Lyon, le Forum National de la Musique à Wrocław, la Philharmonie de Varsovie, l’Auditorium de Lyon, la Philharmonie de Moscou, le Théâtre Mariinsky, Bruxelles BOZAR, le Palais Montcalm à Québec, la Philharmonie de Dresde, MÜPA Budapest, l’Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, et dans des cathédrales telles que Notre-Dame de Paris, Berlin, Vienne, Cologne, ou encore Milan.
Il est en outre régulièrement invité par des formations telles que l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, l’Orchestre National de France, l’Orchestre National de Lyon, l’Orchestre Symphonique d’Odense, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Wrocław NFM, l’Orchestre Symphonique de la Radio Polonaise à Katowice, ou encore l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Varsovie sous la direction de Myung-Whun Chung, Kent Nagano, Andris Poga, Mikko Franck, Fabien Gabel, Cristian Măcelaru, Giancarlo Guerrero et Lawrence Foster.
En 2023, Karol est artiste en résidence à NOSPR à Katowice, après avoir occupé la même fonction à Radio France pendant trois saisons. Cette même année, il remporte le prix de l’orchestre des International Classical Awards (ICMA). Parmi les événements marquants de cette saison, il jouera également la création mondiale de « Unstern », Concerto pour orgue de Philippe Hersant, avec l’Orchestre National de Lyon sous la baguette d’Antony Hermus.
Karol Mossakowski a pour volonté de faire vivre la musique par le biais de l’improvisation, à laquelle il donne une place de choix dans ses récitals et développe lors d’accompagnement de films muets. En 2014, son accompagnement de la Jeanne d’Arc de Dreyer dans le cadre du Festival Lumière à Lyon paraît en DVD chez Gaumont. En novembre 2021 paraît son premier album « Rivages » pour le label Tempéraments enregistré sur l’orgue Grenzing de l’Auditorium de Radio France. Il propose des œuvres de Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Liszt, liées entre elles par des improvisations. Deux ans après, il enregistre le Concerto pour orgue de Poulenc et la Symphonie concertante de Jongen avec l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Wrocław NFM dirigé par Giancarlo Guerrero, qui paraît en avril 2023, et qui est largement salué par la critique internationale.
Compositeur en résidence du Festival de musique sacrée de Saint-Malo de 2021 à 2023, il a composé « Les Voiles de la Lumière », oratorio pour trois orgues et chœur mixte créé en 2021, « Trois Versets » pour trois orgues, créée en 2022 par Philippe Lefebvre, Olivier Latry, et Vincent Dubois. Sa dernière composition dans ce cadre, « Beauté infinie » pour chœur mixte à cappella, est créée en août 2023.
En 2014 il est pendant six mois « Young Artist in Residence » à la cathédrale Saint-Louis de La Nouvelle-Orléans (USA). Entre 2017 et 2023, il est organiste titulaire de la Cathédrale de Lille. Il est aujourd’hui professeur d’improvisation à l’école supérieure de musique de Saint-Sébastien en Espagne (Musikene).
Karol Mossakowski débute l’apprentissage du piano et de l’orgue à trois ans avec son père. Après des études musicales en Pologne, il intègre les classes d’orgue, d’improvisation et d’écriture au Conservatoire de Paris, où il a comme professeurs Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, Thierry Escaich, Philippe Lefebvre.
Karol Mossakowski se produit régulièrement dans des salles telles que la Philharmonie de Paris, l’Auditorium de Radio France, l’Auditorium de Lyon, le Forum National de la Musique à Wrocław, la Philharmonie de Varsovie, l’Auditorium de Lyon, la Philharmonie de Moscou, le Théâtre Mariinsky, Bruxelles BOZAR, le Palais Montcalm à Québec, la Philharmonie de Dresde, MÜPA Budapest, l’Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, et dans des cathédrales telles que Notre-Dame de Paris, Berlin, Vienne, Cologne, ou encore Milan.
Il est en outre régulièrement invité par des formations telles que l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, l’Orchestre National de France, l’Orchestre National de Lyon, l’Orchestre Symphonique d’Odense, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Wrocław NFM, l’Orchestre Symphonique de la Radio Polonaise à Katowice, ou encore l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Varsovie sous la direction de Myung-Whun Chung, Kent Nagano, Andris Poga, Mikko Franck, Fabien Gabel, Cristian Măcelaru, Giancarlo Guerrero et Lawrence Foster.
En 2023, Karol est artiste en résidence à NOSPR à Katowice, après avoir occupé la même fonction à Radio France pendant trois saisons. Cette même année, il remporte le prix de l’orchestre des International Classical Awards (ICMA). Parmi les événements marquants de cette saison, il jouera également la création mondiale de « Unstern », Concerto pour orgue de Philippe Hersant, avec l’Orchestre National de Lyon sous la baguette d’Antony Hermus.
Karol Mossakowski a pour volonté de faire vivre la musique par le biais de l’improvisation, à laquelle il donne une place de choix dans ses récitals et développe lors d’accompagnement de films muets. En 2014, son accompagnement de la Jeanne d’Arc de Dreyer dans le cadre du Festival Lumière à Lyon paraît en DVD chez Gaumont. En novembre 2021 paraît son premier album « Rivages » pour le label Tempéraments enregistré sur l’orgue Grenzing de l’Auditorium de Radio France. Il propose des œuvres de Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Liszt, liées entre elles par des improvisations. Deux ans après, il enregistre le Concerto pour orgue de Poulenc et la Symphonie concertante de Jongen avec l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Wrocław NFM dirigé par Giancarlo Guerrero, qui paraît en avril 2023, et qui est largement salué par la critique internationale.
Compositeur en résidence du Festival de musique sacrée de Saint-Malo de 2021 à 2023, il a composé « Les Voiles de la Lumière », oratorio pour trois orgues et chœur mixte créé en 2021, « Trois Versets » pour trois orgues, créée en 2022 par Philippe Lefebvre, Olivier Latry, et Vincent Dubois. Sa dernière composition dans ce cadre, « Beauté infinie » pour chœur mixte à cappella, est créée en août 2023.
En 2014 il est pendant six mois « Young Artist in Residence » à la cathédrale Saint-Louis de La Nouvelle-Orléans (USA). Entre 2017 et 2023, il est organiste titulaire de la Cathédrale de Lille. Il est aujourd’hui professeur d’improvisation à l’école supérieure de musique de Saint-Sébastien en Espagne (Musikene).
Karol Mossakowski débute l’apprentissage du piano et de l’orgue à trois ans avec son père. Après des études musicales en Pologne, il intègre les classes d’orgue, d’improvisation et d’écriture au Conservatoire de Paris, où il a comme professeurs Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, Thierry Escaich, Philippe Lefebvre.