SAINT THOMAS CHURCH FIFTH AVENUE

The Reverend Andrew C. Mead, OBE, DD, Rector
John Scott, LVO, D.Mus., Organist and Director of Music
Frederick Teardo, Associate Organist

ORGAN RECITAL SERIES


ANDREW SCANLON

Sunday, 20 April 2008 at Five-fifteen o’clock


On the Arents Memorial Organ:

Mors et Resurrectio


Prelude and Fugue in F minor, Op. 7, No. 2


Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544


Martyrs: Dialogues on a Scottish Psalm-tune for organ duet, Op. 73
with Alastair Stout, organ



Jean Langlais
(1907-1991)

Marcel Dupré
(1886-1971)

J.S. Bach
(1685-1750)

Kenneth Leighton
(1929-1988)
ANDREW SCANLON, FAGO, is a member of the organ faculty at Duquesne University, Director of Music at the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, and director of the Pittsburgh Compline Choir. He holds degrees from Duquesne University and Yale University where his teachers were Ann Labounsky and Thomas Murray respectively. He formerly held positions at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Buffalo and Christ & St. Stephen’s Church in Manhattan, as well as having served churches in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Andrew is an active recitalist, performing frequently on the organ throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, France, England, Italy and Croatia. He has performed at such venues at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, National City Christian Church in Washington, Notre-Dame Cathedral and the American Cathedral in Paris, as well as for conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society.

ALASTAIR STOUT grew up in the Shetland Isles off the northeast coast of Scotland. He studied at the Royal College of Music with Joseph Horovitz and Dr. John Birch, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Robert Saxton and Royal Holloway, University of London, with Simon Holt, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in composition. Whilst in London he was assistant organist at Wesley’s Chapel, the Mother Church of World Methodism, and gave recitals at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Ely Cathedral, the Temple and St Brides Church, Fleet Street as well as throughout the UK. Dr. Stout moved to America in 2002 to take up the position of Music Director at the Coraopolis United Methodist Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is very active as a composer, having composed for almost every genre. In 2005 he won the William Mathias Composition Composition Award and was a featured composer in the King’s Lynn Festival (UK) in July.