The Grand Organ Series

Saturday, February 15, 2020

In the third of five recitals in the 2019-2020 Grand Organ Series, Nathan Laube plays The Miller-Scott Organ for the first time. Laube, “Once a ‘rising star,’ is now an international star, and his consummate musicianship is justifiably celebrated worldwide.” (The Tracker) His program, featuring some of his own transcriptions for organ, will present works of Wagner, Liszt and J.S. Bach.

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In the fourth installment of the Grand Organ Series, American Fulbright Scholar, Joy-Leilani Garbutt presents the music of Jeanne Demessieux and les compositrices françaises. A culmination of her own research in France, Garbutt plays a program of rediscovered French organ music composed by Claude Arrieu, Elsa Barraine, Nadia Boulanger, and other women of the early 20th century.

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In the last of the season’s Grand Organ Series recitals, Associate Organist Benjamin Sheen will explore the vast tonal range of the Miller-Scott organ in a unique program featuring music from his native England, including works inspired by one of the world’s most vibrant and revered cities. London has inspired a number of notable composers and this recital will feature brand new transcriptions of Edward Elgar’s ‘Cockaigne’ Overture, Eric Coates’ ‘London Suite’ and other works by C.H.H. Parry, Percy Whitlock and William Walton.

In the second of five Grand Organ recitals of the season, Concerts at Saint Thomas welcomes Christophe Mantoux, a past winner of the prestigious Grand Prix d’Interprétation at the Chartres International Organ Competition. Currently Organiste Titulaire at the Church of Saint-Séverin in Paris, Mantoux brings a Belle Époque program exploring the Parisian colors of The Miller-Scott Organ.

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