On the Loening-Hancock Organ:

Fantasy and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537

O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, BWV 656

Concerto in G major, BWV 592, after Prince Johann Ernst
I. [Allegro]
II. Grave
III. Presto

Vor deinen Thron tret ich, BWV 668

Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540

Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)

FREDERICK TEARDO is Assistant Organist at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, where he accompanies the church’s renowned Choir of Men and Boys. Prior to this appointment, he served as Assistant Organist at Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green in New Haven, CT. Mr. Teardo recently received the Master of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. At Yale, he studied organ with Thomas Murray and harpsichord with Richard Rephann. He also earned his Master of Music degree at Yale, and during that period of time held the post of Yale University Chapel Organist. Mr. Teardo received his Bachelor of Music degree with Highest Honors from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester NY, where he studied organ with David Higgs. His other teachers have included Stephen Roberts and Haskell Thomson. He has also studied improvisation with William Porter and Jeffrey Brillhart. An avid performer, Mr. Teardo has won first prize in numerous competitions: the 1997 L. Cameron Johnson Competition, the 1999 AGO Region I Competition for Young Organists, the 2001 Augustana Arts/Reuter Competition, and the 2002 Wells Competition for Young Organists. He competed as a semi-finalist in both the 2001 St. Albans International Organ Festival in England and the 2003 Dallas International Organ Competition. Mr. Teardo has been a featured performer at Regional and National Conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the 2004 National Convention of the Organ Historical Society, on the NPR program Pipedreams, and in a segment on the revived interest of the pipe organ on ABC World News Tonight.