On the Arents Memorial Organ:

Jubilee


Scherzo (from Dix Pièces)


Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541


Ar Hyd Y Nos (All Through the Night)


Sonata Eroïca, Op. 94

Leo Sowerby
(1895-1968)

Eugène Gigout
(1863-1945)

Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)

arr. Dale Wood
(1934-2003)

Joseph Jongen
(1873-1953)

ERIC PLUTZ is University Organist at Princeton University. There his responsibilities include playing for weekly services at the Chapel, official University services, solo concerts and accompanying the Chapel Choir in services and concerts. He also coordinates the weekly After Noon Concert Series at the University Chapel. In addition, Mr. Plutz is the accompanist for the Westminster Choir and rehearsal accompanist for the Westminster Symphonic Choir at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, NJ. Mr. Plutz, acclaimed as “an impressive organist” by Donald Metz writing for American Record Guide, recently released his first solo CD recording, Music Héroïque, on the Pro Organo Label. Recorded at the Princeton University Chapel, it is the first SACD recording of the 137-rank Aeolian-Skinner/Mander organ. The Washington Symphonic Brass join him on the recording, and, regarding their performance of the Poème Héroïque by Marcel Dupré, Mr. Metz said it is “…the best interpretation I’ve heard.” Tim Page, writing for the Washington Post, described Mr. Plutz as a “spirited and virtuosic organist.” As an organ concert soloist, Mr. Plutz has accepted engagements in distinguished locations across the United States and abroad including Salzburg, Austria (Franziskanerkirche), New York City (Avery Fisher Hall), Washington, DC (Washington National Cathedral), San Francisco (Grace Cathedral), and Atlanta (St. Philip’s Cathedral). He was a featured artist at the 2007 Regional Convention for the American Guild of Organists in Baltimore, Maryland, and was a featured performer for the 2007 Conference of the American Handel Society. Originally from Rock Island, Illinois, Mr. Plutz earned a Bachelor of Music degree, magna cum laude, from Westminster Choir College of Rider University in 1989 and a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music in 1991. In 2004, while on sabbatical, he studied in Rochester, New York, with David Higgs, chair of Eastman’s organ department, and in Paris, France, with Marie-Louise Langlais, researching the major organ works of César Franck.