Organ Series
In addition to its main concert series at the Church of the Good Shepherd, the Riverside Fine Arts Association presents its Pipe Organ Concert Series each spring featuring some of the country’s finest concert organists, each with a unique style, comprising a broad repertoire of magnificent pipe organ music.
A SHOWCASE OF JACKSONVILLE TALENT ORGANISTS
Sunday, January 18, 2009, 3:00 PM // Jacoby Symphony Hall $20 Adults / $10 Students
Jacksonville is home to many fine organists who serve churches and play professionally throughout the area. Riverside Fine Arts is fortunate to have chosen four talented men and women to present at our season opening recital.
JAN KRAYBILL
Sunday, February 15, 2009, 3:00 PM // Jacoby Symphony Hall $20 Adults / $10 Students
Jan Kraybill is the Principal Organist and Director of Music at Community of Christ Headquarters in Independence, Missouri. She presents organ recitals and demonstrations, designs and conducts hymn festivals, provides music for congregational worship services and international worship events, coordinates the "Dome and Spire" concert series, and serves as a resource person for church musicians and worship planners. She holds degrees in music education and piano performance from Kansas State University and a DMA in organ performance from the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri at Kansas City. Dr. Kraybill performs regularly as an organist, pianist and harpsichordist, and has appeared as a recitalist and lecturer at regional and national musicians' conventions in the United States and Canada.
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD
Sunday, March 22, 2009, 3:00 PM // The Church of The Good Shepherd $20 Adults / $10 Students
The acclaimed young English organist William Whitehead is the Organ Professor at Trinity College of Music and Music director at St. Mary's Church, Bourne Street, both in London. Previous positions included seven years teaching at the Royal Academy of Music in London, service on the music staff of Westminster Abbey and later of Rochester Cathedral, and assisting John Eliot Gardiner with the famed Monteverdi Choir. He won first prize at the Odense International Organ Competition in Denmark in 2004, and holds many other awards and honors. He has performed in South Africa, France, Denmark Russia, Scotland, as well as extensively in England at major venues and festivals including those in Litchfield, Cheltenham, and Hampstead and Highgate. He is a graduate of University College, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar, and of the Royal Academy of Music, with a further graduate degree from King's College London.
ALAN MORRISON
Sunday, April 19, 2009, 3:00 PM // Jacoby Symphony Hall $20 Adults / $10 Students
Alan Morrison is recognized as one of America's premier concert organists and his concert appearances in some of the most prestigious organ concert venues in North America emphasize his achievements as a performer and the respect Mr. Morrison has gained in the concert organ world. He is a regular performer at The Kimmel Center where he also serves as an artistic adviser. At the age of 33, Mr. Morrison was appointed Head of the Organ Department at the world renowned conservatory, The Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia). He recently was honored with the Haas Charitable Trust Chair in Organ Studies at Curtis. He is in his twelfth year as College Organist at Ursinus College (Collegeville, PA.) and is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Organ at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. He is a graduate of both The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School of Music receiving degrees in both organ and piano accompanying/chamber music.