| Organ Concert | |
| Time: | June 8th, 2008 4 PM |
| Organ: | Rodgers Custom Masterpiece three manual interfaced to a 38 rank Rieger pipe organ. The Rieger was originally a tracker. R. A. Daffer Church Organs, Inc. installed electric pull-down actions in order to convert the Rieger from a track and permit the inte |
| Artist: | Dr. Ray Weidner |
| Location: | Wood's Memorial Presbyterian Church 611 Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd. Severan Park, MD 21146 |
| Contact: | Ray Weidner 410-647-2550 |
| Information: | Raymond Weidner is a nationally know composer whose works have been featured over National Public Radio and performed by church and symphonic choruses throughout the United States including the famous Westminster Choir. His compositions are published by National Music, Zimbel Press, and Paraclete Press. He holds degrees from Westminster Choir College (B. Mus.), Western Michigan University (M. Mus.), and Michigan State University (Ph. D.), and has collaborated with the Chamber Choir of Grand Rapids (MI), and the Mississippi Girlchoir. As an organist, Dr. Weidner has performed throughout the country including such venues at the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia and at Salisbury Cathedral, England. On the program will be two arrangements by the composer of Campra’s Rigaudon and Couperin’s famous Chaconne for brass, timpani, and organ. Organ works will include Couperin’s Offertoire (Mass for the Convents), Langlais’ Te Deum, Widor’s Salve Regina (from Symphony No. 2), and Rheinberger’s Cantilena among others. The recital will close with the premier of Cortege for organ, brass, timpani, and percussion by the composer. The recital will feature the church’s newly renovated Rieger pipe organ, enhanced by a new electronic console and digital voices by Rodgers Organs of Hillsboro, Oregon. The program is free with childcare provided. For more information, contact Woods Memorial Church at 410-647-2550. |
| Organ Concert | |
| Time: | October 8th, 2008 7:00 PM |
| Organ: | Rodgers Trillium 837 two manual with MIDI |
| Artist: | Rebecca Kleintop Owens |
| Location: | Graceham Moravian Church 8231-A Rocky Ridge Road Thurmont, MD 21788 |
| Contact: | Al Murrell amurrell@dafferorgans.com |
| Information: | A short Lovefeast service followed by a concert celebrating the 250th anniversary of Graceham Moravian Church. Rebecca Kleintop Owens is the Director of Music at the historic Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, PA. She was previously the Senior Organist at the internationally televised Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Prior to her position in For Lauderdale, she held positions of Organist and Choir Director of the Woodside Presbyterian Church in Yardly, PA as well as organist of the West Side Moravian Church in Bethlehem, PA. Rebecca graduated with an Artist Diploma in organ performance from the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA where she studied on a full scholarship with John Weaver. Originally trained as a pianist, Rebecca’s musical interest turned to the organ while a student of Richard Van Auken at Moravian College where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Music Degree. She is both an active solo recitalist and clinician, performing concerts and conducting workshops throughout the east coast, as well as an active accompanist. She was organist for the 2003 Atlanta Boy Choir European Tour and has also played for and with a vast array of notable artists including Marie Claire Alain, Roger Williams, Nielson and Young, Roger Blackburn, and Christine Anderson. While residing in Philadelphia, she served as an assistant organist at the famed Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, the largest playing musical instrument in the world. Rebecca has recently completed a recording with the Central Moravian Church Choir of the Christmas Eve Vigil, which will be released August of 2005. She was organist for the most recent CD featuring the Coral Ridge Chancel Choir, entitled “His Truth Is Marching On”. She is a member of the American Guild of Organists where she serves on the executive board of the Lehigh Valley Chapter, and in the past, has served on the executive board of the Philadelphia Chapter. |
| Organ Concert | |
| Time: | December 14th, 2008 5 PM |
| Organ: | Rodgers Masterpiece 788 two manual digital organ with MIDI |
| Artist: | Hector Olivera |
| Location: | St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church 2504 Cub Hill Road Baltimore, MD 21234 |
| Contact: | Al Murrell amurrell@dafferorgans.com |
| Information: | Hector Olivera is a passionate, gifted, and unique musician, whose personal interpretations of both classical and popular music have amazed and delighted audiences around the world. Born in Buenos Aires, Hector’s first teacher (who was his father) encouraged him to begin playing the pipe organ when he was three. Two years later, Hector was appointed organist of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. At six, he entered the Buenos Aires Conservatory to study harmony, counterpoint, and fugue. Beginning to learn the art of improvisation there, by nine, he had composed a suite for oboe and string orchestra, which was eventually performed by the Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra. Hector entered the University of Buenos Aires when he was 12, where he studied with Hector Zeoli and Juan Francisco Giacobbe. By 18, he had performed more than 300 concerts throughout Latin America, appearing frequently on Argentinean radio and television. During this time, he also served for three years as the senior improvisational accompanist for the Collegium Musicum in Buenos Aires, vastly increasing his prodigious improvisational talent. In 1965, New York’s prestigious Juilliard School of Music offered him a scholarship. He immediately moved to the United States to study with Vernon de Tar and Bronson Reagan. Three years later, Hector won the National Improvisation Contest sponsored by the American Guild of Organists, thereby launching his outstanding professional concert career. Besides performing many concerts in the United States and throughout Mexico and Latin America, Hector has also played in Australia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and Taiwan. Notable venues have included the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, the Crystal Cathedral, Spivey Hall, Constitution Hall, Balboa Park, and Dallas’s Myerson Concert Hall. He was also the featured organist in the 1978, 1980 and 1984 Manchester (UK) International Organ Festival. In 1988, after years of performing in the United States, Hector was invited to play again in Argentina. Upon arriving, he was treated like a national hero with SRO concerts attended by celebrities and heads of state, as well as featured on many radio television shows. Hector has also performed as guest soloist with many orchestras throughout the world, including the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Fort Wayne Symphony, the Dover-New Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Amsterdam Baroque Ensemble, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Pasadena Symphony. (Composer Robert Vandall described Hector's performance with the Tuscarawas Philharmonic as "an opportunity to hear and see greatness.") His collaboration with the Pasadena Symphony produced a limited Gold CD edition featuring Hector in the Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3. In 1992, Hector was featured at the American Guild of Organists convention at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta performing the world premiere of a commissioned work written by William Albright. Later, from this same stage, Hector performed on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion.” According to Keillor, Hector "literally stopped the show!" In 1996, again in Atlanta, Hector performed at Spivey Hall in connection with the Olympic games, receiving many standing ovations and rave reviews. In 2000, Hector performed a solo memorial concert in New York City’s St. Paul the Apostle Church as a tribute to his greatest hero and role model, organist Virgil Fox. He played a second Virgil Fox Memorial Concert at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, in 2004. Hector was invited again to perform for the American Guild of Organists National Convention in 2002, where his transcription of Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" spontaneously brought the large audience of peers to their feet. Again, in 2004, his appearance before the Guild’s National Convention in Los Angeles was considered an historic triumph by 2,200 cheering organists, who gave him four standing ovations in 45 minutes. In addition to performing at concert halls throughout the world and dedication recitals in churches and symphony halls, Hector consults on the design of new and refurbished pipe and electronic organs. He currently works with, and concertizes and gives master classes for, Roland Organs. Meanwhile, Rodgers Instruments is completing a large touring organ for his use throughout the world. Hector continues to thrill audiences with both solo classical literature and his own orchestral transcriptions, now released on DVD and more than 20 classical, contemporary, and film score CDs. Although he is most famous for his prodigious technical proficiency, Hector’s amazing affect on audiences has made many of the most sophisticated and demanding organ aficionados claim that Hector Olivera is one of the greatest organists in the world today. |
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