On the Loening-Hancock Organ:

Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542


On the Arents Memorial Organ:

Symphony No. 1 in D minor
    I. Prélude

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 13, No. 1
   II. Pastorale

Dialectic Fantasy


Fantasie sur Ein Feste Burg

Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)



Louis Vierne
(1870-1937)

Charles-Marie Widor
(1844-1937)

Jacobus Kloppers
(b. 1937)

Denis Bedard
(b. 1950)

A native of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, BRENNAN SZAFRON is the first full-time organist and choirmaster of the Episcopal Church of the Advent in Spartanburg, SC, a position he has held since August 2003. At this church, he is responsible for playing the organ for all services, directing two adult and three children's choirs, and directing and arranging music for the instrumental and hand chime ensembles. Before coming to Spartanburg, Brennan Szafron was the assistant organist and choirmaster of Christ Episcopal Church, Grosse Pointe, MI, with whom he toured France and Switzerland in the summer of 2003. He was also a student at the University of Michigan, where he received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ performance, studying with Robert Glasgow. Other degrees include a Master of Music degree from Yale University, where his teachers were Thomas Murray and Martin Jean, and a Bachelor of Music degree, with distinction, from the University of Alberta, where his teachers were Jacobus Kloppers and Marnie Giesbrecht. At the age of 21, he became a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. Brennan Szafron is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships. While at the University of Alberta, he received several Beryl Barns memorial scholarships and at Yale, he received the Edwin Stanley Seder memorial scholarship. He was the third prize winner of the 1997 Royal Canadian College of Organists National Competition and the 1998 recipient of the RCCO John Goss Memorial Scholarship for advanced organ study outside of Canada.