Stan's Music Parlor--Hauptwerk Recitals in Los Angeles

Arrival: 7:30-8 pm Saturday, December 7
Doors close for music: 8 pm
(If you arrive late, please wait for applause between pieces to knock for admission.)
Reception follows.
Donations for the musicians are appreciated!

Mr. Mellan has chosen the following Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ for this recital:

1885 A. Cavaille-Coll: St. Etienne Abbey, Caen, France

BIOGRAPHY

Keyboard artist and composer, Thomas Mellan, was born in Lyon, France in 1995. Mr. Mellan lives in Los Angeles where he is Organist in Residence of the Jacaranda Concert Series and pursues a Master of Music degree in Composition with Donald Crockett at the University of Southern California.

Diapason Magazine names Thomas Mellan as one of its 2019 "20 under 30" young musicians pushing organ music in new directions. In 2018, he performed at the International Organ Festival of Lille, and that of St. Antoine l’Abbaye, in France. He gave the Ukrainian premiere of Messiaen’s Livre d’Orgue during an artistic residency at the Organ Hall in Lviv. In 2015, he performed as Rising Star in the American Guild of Organists’ West Region Regional Convention and in the Centennial International Summer Organ Festival at the Spreckels Pavilion. As Young Artist of the Year, he performed a solo recital in the 23rd Organ Festival at St. Eustache in Paris, France. In 2011, Mr. Mellan was one of six organists who recorded the official Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ DVD.

Mr. Mellan's catalog of over thirty compositions includes orchestral, chamber and solo works. In 2019, he performed his organ composition, "Ballade de l’impossible," as Cameron Carpenter's guest at Walt Disney Concert Hall. LA Times music critic, Mark Sved, described "Ballade de l’impossible" as being “manically unpredictable”. In 2016, Sakura cello quintet and the USC Thornton Symphony premiered his work …"on transcendence…," for five solo cellos and orchestra. Mr. Melllan's music compositions have been performed at the Chautauqua Institute (New York), Rider University and the Princeton University Chapel (Princeton, New Jersey), the Spreckels Organ Pavilion (San Diego, California), Walt Disney Concert Hall, (Los Angeles, California), the University of Southern California and Église St. Eustache (Paris, France).

The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music named Thomas Mellan as the Outstanding Graduate of the masters class of 2019 and the undergraduate class of 2017, for graduating with a Master of Music degree in organ and a Bachelor of Music degree with a double major in organ performance and composition. He studied organ with Cherry Rhodes at USC, and worked privately with Jean Guillou in Paris. In 2016, Mr. Mellan received the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award. In 2013, the USC Thornton School of Music awarded the Thornton Faculty Award, its most prestigious undergraduate scholarship, to Thomas Mellan.

PROGRAM

Frédéric Chopin/Thomas Mellan
- Etude Op. 10#3
- Etude Op. 25#10

Franz Schubert/Thomas Mellan
- Piano Sonata #14 in a minor

Franz Liszt
- Fantasy and Fugue on “ad nos, ad salutarem undam”

Thomas Mellan, Hauptwerk virtual organist and harpsichordist, with friends...

Arrival: 7:30-8 pm Tuesday, January 21

Doors close for music: 8 pm

(If you arrive late, please wait for applause between pieces to knock for admission.)

Reception follows.

Donations for the musicians are appreciated!

BIOGRAPHIES

Thomas Mellan is an organist, composer, harpsichordist and pianist. Since 2019, he is the organist in residence of the Jacaranda concert series in Los Angeles. He has performed in spaces including Église St. Eustache in Paris, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia, St. Antoine l’abbaye and others. In 2018, his European tour culminated in a residency at the Lviv Organ Hall in Ukraine, where he gave the Ukrainian Premiere of Messiaen’s Livre d’Orgue. His compositions have been performed in the US, France, Ukraine, Portugal, Canada and Malaysia. He studied organ with Cherry Rhodes and Jean Guillou, and composition with Andrew Norman, Frank Ticheli and Donald Crockett. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music in organ and composition in 2017 and a Masters in organ from the USC Thornton School of Music in 2019.

Ella Sharpe began double bass at seven years old under the tutelage of her father in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is now in her second year of undergraduate studies with David Allen Moore at the Thornton School of Music. Ella has had the opportunity to perform internationally under the direction of Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Valery Gergiev. She has performed in prestigious concert halls including but not limited to Carnegie Hall in New York, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. At 17, Ella was one of eleven young bass players to make it to the semi-finals of the 2017 International Society of Double Bassists Solo Competition (15-18 division). In 2019, she was selected as a double bass fellow at the Sarasota Music Festival. Ella regularly performs with the USC Thornton Symphony as well as the Early Music Ensemble of USC.

Espen Nystog Aas is a Norwegian clarinetist who is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at USC with world renowned clarinet professor Yehuda Gilad. He holds a Bachelor's degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music and a Graduate Certificate from USC Thornton School of Music. Espen is a versatile player with experience in many different genres. He was awarded a fellowship with the Norwegian Wind Orchestra for his free classical improvisations, which led to concerts in Frankfurts Alte Oper, NDR Hamburg and a premiere at Oslo Contemporary Music Festival. Together with Åsbjørg Ryeng on Bandoneon, Espen enjoys a break from the classical world with genres such as klezmer, balkan and tango music. With “Swing’it Dixieband,” he has played in jazz festivals across Europe and recorded two albums. When not playing music, Espen can be found cycling in the canyons or sailing the blue Pacific.

An active performer and composer in Los Angeles, Tristan Heinicke is a third year Bachelor of Music in Composition at the University of Southern California. He currently studies with Frank Ticheli, and has previously studied with Sean Friar and Ted Hearne. Tristan’s music explores the space between what is unspoken and what is understood, the translation of mediums, maximalism, and personal identity as the lens for the performer and audience’s understanding. He frequently uses musical and visual mediums interchangeably, as well as guided and free improvisations.

PROGRAM

Jean-Baptiste Lully: Prelude, Chaconne des Scaramouches

Louis Couperin: Concert Royale No.2

Ella:
Luciano Berio: Psy
François Rabbath: L'infinie Martine

Espen:
J.S. Bach: Suites
Erland von Koch: Monologue
Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces

Tristan:
Tristan Heinicke: Adventures in Painting

Thomas:
Franz Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on BACH (syncretic version by Jean Guillou)

Attending one of these events has been added to my bucket list

THOMAS MELLAN, COMPOSER, PIANIST AND ORGANIST WITH ESPEN AAS, CLARINETIST AND OREST SMOVZH, VIOLINIST

Saturday, February 29, 2020 from 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM (PST)

Stan's Music Parlor

BIOGRAPHIES
Keyboard artist and composer, Thomas Mellan, was born in Lyon, France in 1995. Mr. Mellan lives in Los Angeles where he is Organist in Residence of the Jacaranda Concert Series and pursues a Master of Music degree in Composition with Donald Crockett at the University of Southern California.

Diapason Magazine names Thomas Mellan as one of its 2019 "20 under 30" young musicians pushing organ music in new directions. In 2018, he performed at the International Organ Festival of Lille, and that of St. Antoine l’Abbaye, in France. He gave the Ukrainian premiere of Messiaen’s Livre d’Orgue during an artistic residency at the Organ Hall in Lviv. In 2015, he performed as Rising Star in the American Guild of Organists’ West Region Regional Convention and in the Centennial International Summer Organ Festival at the Spreckels Pavilion. As Young Artist of the Year, he performed a solo recital in the 23rd Organ Festival at St. Eustache in Paris, France. In 2011, Mr. Mellan was one of six organists who recorded the official Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ DVD.

Mr. Mellan's catalog of over thirty compositions includes orchestral, chamber and solo works. In 2019, he performed his organ composition, "Ballade de l’impossible," as Cameron Carpenter's guest at Walt Disney Concert Hall. LA Times music critic, Mark Sved, described "Ballade de l’impossible" as being “manically unpredictable”. In 2016, Sakura cello quintet and the USC Thornton Symphony premiered his work …"on transcendence…," for five solo cellos and orchestra. Mr. Melllan's music compositions have been performed at the Chautauqua Institute (New York), Rider University and the Princeton University Chapel (Princeton, New Jersey), the Spreckels Organ Pavilion (San Diego, California), Walt Disney Concert Hall, (Los Angeles, California), the University of Southern California and Église St. Eustache (Paris, France).

The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music named Thomas Mellan as the Outstanding Graduate of the masters class of 2019 and the undergraduate class of 2017, for graduating with a Master of Music degree in organ and a Bachelor of Music degree with a double major in organ performance and composition. He studied organ with Cherry Rhodes at USC, and worked privately with Jean Guillou in Paris. In 2016, Mr. Mellan received the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award. In 2013, the USC Thornton School of Music awarded the Thornton Faculty Award, its most prestigious undergraduate scholarship, to Thomas Mellan.

Espen Nystog Aas is a Norwegian clarinetist who is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at USC with world renowned clarinet professor Yehuda Gilad. He holds a Bachelor's degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music and a Graduate Certificate from USC Thornton School of Music. Espen is a versatile player with experience in many different genres. He was awarded a fellowship with the Norwegian Wind Orchestra for his free classical improvisations, which led to concerts in Frankfurts Alte Oper, NDR Hamburg and a premiere at Oslo Contemporary Music Festival. Together with Åsbjørg Ryeng on Bandoneon, Espen enjoys a break from the classical world with genres such as klezmer, balkan and tango music. With “Swing’it Dixieband,” he has played in jazz festivals across Europe and recorded two albums. When not playing music, Espen can be found cycling in the canyons or sailing the blue Pacific.


Ukrainian-born violinist Orest Smovzh is currently based in United States.

For the last few years, he works under mentorship of Midori Gotō, and also received most memorable coachings from pianist Ferenc Rados, baritone Thomas Hampson and lute player Nigel North. In addition to performing - Orest is dedicated to organizing festivals, promoting contemporary music, historically informed performance, music journalism and conducting.

Orest is the co-founder of such projects as Melaka Classics – innovative classical music project in Malaysia, Collegium Management - one of the most vibrant concert organizations of Ukraine, Dzenzelivka Classical Week - the first Ukrainian chamber music festival in a village, where he served as the Artistic Director for 8 years.

He commissioned and premiered around 40 works from leading composers of Ukraine, also Singapore and USA. In 2016, Orest had his conducting debut with Antoniy Baryshevskyi and Rivne Philharmonic Orchestra.

Orest collaborated in chamber performances with members of Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, musicians from Suntory Hall Chamber Music Academy, Tsinandali Academy, pianists Thomas Hoppe, Fazıl Say, Albert Tiu, cellist Michael Kannen and violinist Vadim Gluzman. He also worked on a diverse chamber repertoire with Leon Fleisher, Gyorgy Takacs-Nagy, Jeffrey Kahane, Bernard Lanskey, members of Tokyo String Quartet, Ellen Mack and Shlomo Mintz.

As a soloist, Orest took part in historically informed performances with Masaaki Suzuki, and received continuous coachings from Adam and Rotem Gilbert. In numerous outreach projects with Midori, Orest performed at orphanages, jails, hospitals and halfway homes in towns of Baja California, Mexico, Los Angeles, as well as schools in Sendai, Japan and centers for senior citizens in Baltimore.

Over the past few years, Orest led Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Chamber Orchestra, USC Thornton Symphony Orchestra, USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra, YST Conservatory Strings, European Youth Orchestra and Tchaikovsky Academy String Orchestra for performances in Kyiv, Singapore, Beijing, Los Angeles, Baltimore and several cities in Italy.

Orest is a winner of 2015 Tadeusz Wroński Violin Solo Competition, and a finalist of 2018 George Enescu Violin Competition - he has performed on instruments by Guarneri del Gesù, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Carlo Landolfi, Lorenzo Storioni and Stefan-Peter Greiner, loaned by late Mr Rin Kei Mei and private collections.

Orest holds degrees from Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore, and USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied with Mariya Futorska, Yaroslava Rivnyak, Dmytro Tkachenko, Qian Zhou, and participated in masterclasses by Vadym Repin, Ilya Gringolts, Ivry Gitlis, Pierre Amoyal, Pinchas Zukerman, Nam Yun Kim, Augustin Dumay, Petru Munteanu, Kszysztof Węgrzyn and David Takeno.

Being a versatile artist, Orest is most enthusiastic about recital repertoire and creative, unexpected concert programs. His artistic geography includes Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Italy, San Marino, Spain, Great Britain, USA, Mexico, Israel, Georgia, Kuwait, Uzbekistan, India, China, Japan, Malaysia, Australia and Singapore.



PROGRAM

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121 (arrangement for clarinet and piano by Espen Aas and Thomas Mellan):
- No. 1, Denn es gehet dem Menschen
- No. 3, O Tod, wie bitter bist du

Alban Berg (1885-1935): Vier Stücke, Op. 5 for clarinet and piano (transcription by Thomas Mellan):
- Mässig
- Sehr langsam
- Sehr rasch
- Langsam

Anton Webern (1883-1945): Vier Stücke, for violin and piano (transcription by Thomas Mellan):
- Sehr langsam
- Rasch
- Sehr langsam
- Bewegt

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847):
Violin and Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 4 (arrangement by Thomas Mellan):
- Adagio-Allegro moderato
- Poco adagio
- Allegro agitato

INTERMISSION

http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/en/organs/f ... ienne.html
Caen Cavaille-Coll virtual pipe organ


Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) (transcription for organ by Thomas Mellan):
- Étude Op. 25 #10
- Étude Op. 10 #4

Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale “Ad Nos, ad salutarem undam”, from Meyerbeers “Le Prophète”, S.259

https://www.facebook.com/thomas.mellan

Facebook Live concert!
Tuesday, May 19 at 10 am, Los Angeles time.

BIOGRAPHY

Keyboard artist and composer, Thomas Mellan, was born in Lyon, France in 1995. Mr. Mellan lives in Los Angeles where he is Organist in Residence of the Jacaranda Concert Series and pursues a Master of Music degree in Composition with Donald Crockett at the University of Southern California.

Diapason Magazine names Thomas Mellan as one of its 2019 "20 under 30" young musicians pushing organ music in new directions. In 2018, he performed at the International Organ Festival of Lille, and that of St. Antoine l’Abbaye, in France. He gave the Ukrainian premiere of Messiaen’s Livre d’Orgue during an artistic residency at the Organ Hall in Lviv. In 2015, he performed as Rising Star in the American Guild of Organists’ West Region Regional Convention and in the Centennial International Summer Organ Festival at the Spreckels Pavilion. As Young Artist of the Year, he performed a solo recital in the 23rd Organ Festival at St. Eustache in Paris, France. In 2011, Mr. Mellan was one of six organists who recorded the official Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ DVD.

Mr. Mellan's catalog of over thirty compositions includes orchestral, chamber and solo works. In 2019, he performed his organ composition, "Ballade de l’impossible," as Cameron Carpenter's guest at Walt Disney Concert Hall. LA Times music critic, Mark Sved, described "Ballade de l’impossible" as being “manically unpredictable”. In 2016, Sakura cello quintet and the USC Thornton Symphony premiered his work …"on transcendence…," for five solo cellos and orchestra. Mr. Melllan's music compositions have been performed at the Chautauqua Institute (New York), Rider University and the Princeton University Chapel (Princeton, New Jersey), the Spreckels Organ Pavilion (San Diego, California), Walt Disney Concert Hall, (Los Angeles, California), the University of Southern California and Église St. Eustache (Paris, France).

The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music named Thomas Mellan as the Outstanding Graduate of the masters class of 2019 and the undergraduate class of 2017, for graduating with a Master of Music degree in organ and a Bachelor of Music degree with a double major in organ performance and composition. He studied organ with Cherry Rhodes at USC, and worked privately with Jean Guillou in Paris. In 2016, Mr. Mellan received the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award. In 2013, the USC Thornton School of Music awarded the Thornton Faculty Award, its most prestigious undergraduate scholarship, to Thomas Mellan.

Looking forward to playing as part of Dr. Carol Williams' virtual organ festival on May 19th at 1pm EST, here on Facebook live! Thank you to Stanley E Harris for making his epic Hauptwerk setup available for this great cause. I will be playing these two virtual pipe organs:

1885 Cavaille-Coll: St. Etienne Abbey, Caen, France

1973 Marcussen: Laurenskerk, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Program:

Franz Liszt (1811-1886):

- Fantasy and Fugue on BACH (trans. Guillou)
- Transcendental Study No. 5 (trans. Mellan)
- Totentanz (trans. Mellan)
- Nuages Gris (trans. Mellan)
- Fantasy and Fugue on "Ad nos..."
- Transcendental Study No. 10 (trans. Mellan)

During the pandemic, there are no audiences, but some musicians still use Hauptwerk to record. Thomas Mellan created this using Hauptwerk's audio recording feature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7RZk15o7Mk

Event by Stan's Music Parlor--Midori Ataka Master's Degree from Peabody Conservatory Online Organ Recital

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A ... t5aAkGpNG4

Saturday Feb 13, 2021 at 1 PM PST

Price: Free

Hauptwerk organs on a 3-manual Johannus SW-30 console

PROGRAM

Suite du deuxième ton
Basse de trompette
Tierce en taille
Dialogue

Jean-Adam Guilain
c. 1680 – 1739

On 1775 Fr. Isnard organ at Basilique Sainte Marie Madeleine, St. Maximi, France

Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544 Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 – 1750

On 1735 Gottfried Silbermann organ
at St. Peter’s Church, Freiberg, Germany

Vingt-quatre Pièces de fantaisie, Op. 53, No.4
Feux Follets
Hymne au soleil

Louis Vierne
1870 – 1937

On 1885 A. Cavaillé-Coll organ
at St. Etienne Abbey, Caen, France

Poèmes Évangeliques, Op. 2
La Nativité
Finale, Op. 78 (2017)

Jean Langlais
1907 – 1991

On 1885 A. Cavaillé-Coll organ
at St. Etienne Abbey, Caen, France

Rachel Laurin
b. 1961

On 1995 Casavant Freres organ
First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue, WA

Midori would like to thank Dr. Stan Harris for hosting the recital.

BIOGRAPHY

Midori Ataka is a second-year Master’s degree candidate in the studio of Dr. John Walker at Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University and currently serves as Teaching Assistant and Conservatory Accompanist at Peabody. She is going through the audition process now as she would like to pursue doctoral study in organ performance. She is the recipient of the Artistic Excellence Award as well as several scholarships including the Milton H Miller, Sr. Endowed Scholarship in Organ, the Daniel and Isabel Savanuck Endowed Scholarship, the Catherine Laura Stevens Mehr Memorial Scholarship, the George M. Wagner Endowed Scholarship, and the Hortense Iseman Stern Memorial Scholarship from Peabody Conservatory.

The first time Midori saw the pipe organ was when she walked into a college chapel in Iowa. Since then she has always loved the organ music. Prior to that pivotal moment, her keyboard studies began at the age of six in Japan. She went to high school in Portland, Oregon, for a year and self-taught and received GED, General Education Diploma in Japan. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music at Northwestern College in Iowa.

Midori served as the organist/pianist at First United Methodist Church of Torrance, California, and the organist at Mt. Calvary Catholic Church in Baltimore, Maryland. She maintained a private studio, teaching private piano lessons. She also enjoys collaborative work with other soloists and chambers. She worked as a piano accompanist at West Torrance High School and Jefferson Middle School in Torrance.

When not practicing, Midori enjoys hiking and cooking. She is known for her Japanese fried chicken, Gyoza, Okonomiyaki and Japanese Rice Bowls.

In person concerts are resuming!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nicholas-galinaitis-pianist-and-organist-in-person-with-live-audience-tickets-314187472187

In Memorium--Dr. Namhee Han (1970-2020) in Reprise on Hauptwerk Player-Organ. June 11 and 25 at 8 pm in Los Angeles.

Dr. Han passed away on March 27, 2020 from unexpected complications of cancer treatment.

Namhee Han shared her favorite music with friends at Stan's Music Parlor for more than 20 years, often prior to public concert tours. Namhee liked to record herself on the player-organ for performance to prepare music. Sometimes she would leave the recording in my organ computer for me to hear later. She recorded 30 concert pieces for me. I have prepared the player-organ to share them with others, live and on a Facebook Videos playlist. Memorial programs will be LiveStreamed on Facebook Stan's Music Parlor and may be view as video recording there afterwards.

Dr. Stanley Harris, Registrant

June 11, 2022

PROGRAM

JS Bach (1685-1750):

Fugue in D Major (BWV 532)
1730 Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost: Evangelische Lutherische Stadtkirche, Waltershausen, Thüringen, Germany
http://www.organartmedia.com/trost
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 4993540412

Trio Sonata No. 5 in C major: Allegro (BWV 529/1)
1999 Aquincum/1915 Steinmeyer: Cathedral of Szombathely, Hungary
http://02.hauptwerk-augustine.info/Savaria-History/
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 2504613573

Trio Sonata No. 5 in C major: Largo (BWV 529)
1999 Aquincum/1915 Steinmeyer: Cathedral of Szombathely, Hungary
http://02.hauptwerk-augustine.info/Savaria-History/
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 0482242397

Prelude and Fugue in F Minor BWV 534
1979 Alfred Führer: Monastery Church of Riddagshausen, Germany
http://www.pipeloops.com/product_info.php?cPath=22...
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 9337935658

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Pieces for Musical Clocks
1850 Istvan Kolonics: Transylvania village organ, Hungary
1850 Janos Sachs: Transdanubia village organ, Hungary
https://hauptwerk-augustine.info/Hungarian_village.php
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 8801413064

Cesar Franck (1822-1890): Final
1885 A. Cavaille-Coll: St. Etienne Abbey, Caen, France (4-manual Extension)
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/.../top.../ ... ienne.html
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 7423206784

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Danse Macabre (transcribed by Edwin Lemare)
2001 Vladimir Grygar: Church of the Holy Cross, Litomysl, Czech Republic
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/.../litomys ... model.html (modified to 3 manuals by Leslie Deutsch)
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 4900019756

Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933): Valse mignonne (from Drei stücke für Orgel, Op. 142)
1928 E.M. Skinner: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Chicago, Illinois
https://www.milandigitalaudio.com/.../1 ... rmel.../...
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 4612022263

Healey Willan (1880-1968): "Glorious Things"
1983 Schoenstein/1957 Aeolian-Skinner: First Covenant Church, Oakland, California
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/.../aeolian ... -virtual...
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 6545909458

Joseph Bonnet (1884-1944): Variations de Concert
1935 A. Convers/Cavaille-Coll: Basilica of St. Thérèse of Lisieux Tribute Organ (Organo) (70/3+P)*
V1 (Sonus Paradisi Composite: Caen and Santanyi plus Utrecht and Brasov demos)
https://organareginaecaeli.wordpress.co ... ite-of.../
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 8755619836

Guy Bovet (b. 1942): Salamanca from “Trois Préludes Hambourgeois”
2000 Eisenbarth: St. Bartholomäus Church, Friesach, Austria (Les Deutsch extension)
http://piotrgrabowski.pl/friesach.html
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 3113988373

Gerre Hancock (1934-2012): Fanfare
1973 Marcussen & Son: Laurenskerk, Rotterdam, Netherlands
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/.../rotterdam-laurenskerk...
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 5088177664



June 25

Dr. Han assisted with tonal finishing of this virtual organ, and used it for the music below.
1885 A. Cavaille-Coll: St. Etienne Abbey, Caen, France
http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/.../top.../ ... ienne.html

PROGRAM

JS Bach (1685-1750): Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 3957967570

César Franck (1822-1890): Grand Pièce Symphonique, Op. 17
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 9775975978

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868): Overture from “William Tell” (transcribed for the Organ by Edwin H. Lemare)
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 0672240680

Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911): March on a Theme of Handel (Lift Up Your Heads)
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 1135808216

Louis Vierne (1870-1937): Toccata
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 9713104953

Maurice Durufle (1902-1986): Sicilienne (Suite Op. 5)
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 4866836617

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Dieu Parmi Nous (“God among us”) from La Nativité du Seigneur
https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParl ... 1047518569

Yuhan Niu plays Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organs! (Music starts at 8 pm.)


To attend, please register for a seat at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yuhan-niu- ... 2601580627


PROGRAM

HEINRICH REIMANN Phantasie für Orgel über den Choral 'Wie schön

(1850 – 1906) leuchtet der Morgenstern', Op. 25

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, BWV 669

(1685 - 1750) Christe, aller Welt Trost, BWV 670

Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 671

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir BWV 687

(1685 - 1750)

MAURICE DURUFLE Choral varié sur le “Veni Creator”, Op. 4

(1902 – 1986)

MAX REGER Phantasie über den Choral 'Hallelujah! Gott zuloben' Op. 52 No. 3

(1873 – 1916 )

BIOGRAPHY

Yuhan Niu, organist, pianist, harpsichordist and recording engineer, holds a Bachelor of Science in Recording Art from Communication University of China; Bachelor of Science in Music Industry, Master of Music in Organ Performance from the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music. She is currently pursuing Konzertexamen in Orgel at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Germany.

Originally from Beijing, China, Ms. Niu studied Recording Arts at the Communication University of China from 2010 to 2014, during which she received the National Scholarship, the highest student award of the country. Ms. Niu has participated in many recording projects at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing Concert Hall and China National Center for the Performing Arts.

In 2013 Ms. Niu began the study of Music Industry with the emphasize on Music Technology at USC. Since then she has developed a specialty in recording pipe organs. She has recorded various organs including the Great Organs of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles and the organ of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, San Diego. Inspired by those recording sessions, Ms. Niu expanded her passion for the organ and began study of the instrument in 2014 at USC with Dr. Ladd Thomas, Weicheng Zhao and Prof. Cherry Rhodes. She has given recitals at venues such as Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles in Los Angeles and St. Paul Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego. She has performed at the Basílica de Santa Maria in the 6th and 7th International Summer Organ Academy Mataró, Barcelona, and 2019 Oregon Bach Festival as a selected participant. From 2017 to 2020, Ms. Niu served as the Music Director/Organist of Gethsemane Lutheran Church, La Crescenta.

Ms. Niu studied harpsichord with Dr. Lucinda Carver and Prof. Menno van Delft. She is an active basso continuo player. She has performed with USC Baroque Sinfonia and Barockorchester der HfMT Hamburg.

Ms. Niu is currently studying organ with Prof. Wolfgang Zerer and Prof. Matthias Neumann. Recent concert appearances in Hamburg include solo organ recital at VerdenDom (A. Furtwängler organ 1916), Musik zur Marktzeit in der St. Petri Kirche, Buxtehude (Philipp Furtwängler (1859)), Mittags Konzert on the historical organ of Hauptkirche St. Katharinen, and Stunde der Kirchenmusik in Hauptkirche St. Petri.

Dr. Philip Hoch, organist with Erin Wood, soprano! (September 18 at 8 p,.)

For program details, reservations and address, please see https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-philip- ... 5030686957

PROGRAM

Part I


“Ahimè! dove trascorsi! ... Che farò senza Euridice” from Orfeo ed Euridice (1762)

Christoph Willibald Gluck



Chanson perpétuelle, opus 37 (1898)

Ernest Chausson



The Little Horses

Zion’s Walls

Simple Gifts

from Old American Songs (1950-52)

Aaron Copland



“Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém” (Song to the Moon)

from the opera Rusalka (1901)

Antonín Dvořák



Erin Wood, soprano

Philip Hoch, organ



Part II



Choral no. 1 in E Major

César Franck



Floe

from Glassworks

Philip Glass

transcribed by Philip Hoch



Concerto in D Minor, RV 565 (BWV 596)

Antonio Vivaldi

transcribed by Johann Sebastian Bach



Philip Hoch, organ

BIOGRAPHIES
Philip Hoch is a rising concert organist, chorister, and educator from the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Philip started organ lessons with his grandmother, Dr. Olga Schmidt, at the age of five. He later studied under world-renowned organist Dr. Frederick Swann at the University of Redlands, where he earned his bachelor of music (2016) and master of music (2018) degrees in organ performance. He was a two-time recipient of the President’s Honor Recital (2016 and 2017), where he performed a recital in the presence of the University’s president. He was a finalist for the School of Music’s Concerto Competition in 2016 after performing Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ and Orchestra from memory. He was inducted into the elite music honor society, Pi Kappa Lambda, in 2016, in recognition of his academic excellence and service to the School of Music. Philip went on to earn a doctor of musical arts degree (DMA) in December of 2021 at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA, studying under Dr. Christoph Bull. In his dissertation, Transcribing Philip Glass’s Glassworks: Historiography, Case Study, Methodology, Dr. Hoch reevaluates and investigates contemporary practices for organ transcription, offering a compelling perspective through minimalist works. His dissertation study discloses a thorough methodology for creating an organ transcription of Philip Glass’s Glassworks, which premiered in May 2021 at FCCLA. Dr. Hoch serves as organist at Shepherd's Grove Presbyterian Church (Hour of Power with Bobby Schuller) in Irvine, CA, where services are internationally broadcasted on Trinity Broadcasting Network to millions of viewers each week. He currently serves as Artist Teacher of Organ, University Organist, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of Redlands Conservatory of Music.


California native ERIN WOOD’s portrayals of Verdi and Wagner heroines have received praise for her “soaring soprano”, her “immense voice full of grit at the bottom and transcendent radiance at the top” and her “volcanic outpouring of sound”. For Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ms. Wood has portrayed Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Lisa in Pikovaya Dama, Gutrune/Third Norn in Götterdämmerung as well as 9 other roles since her tenure with their Ryan Opera Center. She has been seen as Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera with San Francisco Opera and Opera Colorado, and proudly joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for Die Walküre. She has been featured with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Anchorage Opera, Opera Pacific, Opera Grand Rapids, Toledo Opera, the Grant Park and Ravinia Music Festivals, as well as the Milwaukee, Macon, Bakersfield, Pacific and Lake Forest Symphonies. Concert engagements include Verdi Requiem with the London Symphony Chorus, concert performances of Wagner Wesendonck Lieder, Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Mahler Fourth Symphony, Brahms Requiem, Strauss Vier letzte Lieder, Handel Messiah, Beethoven Ninth Symphony and Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel. Awards include the George London Foundation’s Kirsten Flagstad Award for up-and-coming Wagnerian singers, and she was finalist at the Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition for Wagnerian Singers in Aalborg, Denmark. Ms. Wood is an alumna of UCLA, is seen weekly on Hour of Power with Bobby Schuller and is a member of the El Camino College voice faculty.

Organist, Dr. Joseph Simms, plays Hauptwerk organs! (Music starts at 8 pm.)
Fri, Oct 28, 2022

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Dr. Simms plays music of Couperin, Buxtehude, Handel, Bach, Guilmant, Rene Vierne, and improvisations on Latin Chant, plus some surprises.

Joseph Simms presents an organ recital featuring Hauptwerk virtual pipe organs from Silbermann period instruments in Alsace, France and North Germany, as well as a French Cavaille-Coll organ. He demonstrates Baroque and Romantic Period registrations that reflect historic organ performance customs.
One may also view the recital via Facebook live stream at https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParlor90019 . The program may be viewed later as a recording there.

Biography
Dr. Simms graduated from Arizona State University with a music major. He served as Music Director at the Episcopal Cathedral Center in Echo Park, and the Alternate Cathedral St. John's Episcopal Church. He also was Music Director at St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral, Reno, Nevada. He studied with Nadine Dresskell at ASU, and took organ & improvisation with Ronald Thayer--pupil of Alexander McCurdy at Westminster Choir College. He holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from UCLA.

David Wheatley plays classical and original music on the Steinway grand piano and opens the Johannus/Hauptwerk organ's 25th year celebration!

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Biography:
David Wheatley is an award-winning organist, pianist and composer based in Los Angeles. He is originally from Guelph, Ontario Canada. David attended the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music where he holds the ARCT in Piano and Pipe Organ Performance. He tied for first place for the Edward Johnson Music Foundation Award in Guelph for classical organ performance and won the Ron Collier Composition Contest then held annually in Toronto. Wheatley has a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of North Texas and a Master's Degree in Composition from USC. His diverse background includes performing the Bach B Minor Mass at the organ with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and has served extensively as church organist and as guest choir director. He has given solo pipe organ recitals at various churches including The Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels noontime organ series and Pasadena Presbyterian Church’s Music at Noon Series. David also has performed solo organ and piano concerts, most recently in Laguna Beach and Glendale. This past November, he was one of three recitalists who performed a solo organ program at the Fall Member Recital in Glendora for the American Guild of Organists. His performances always include original compositions and his own brand of humor. He also visited and played eight historical organs in London in 2019 with an eye towards future post-pandemic performances there. David is currently on the Executive Committee as Member-at-Large of the American Guild of Organists, Los Angeles Chapter.
davidwheatley.net



Program: Organ and Piano
Waterways--D. Wheatley
Basse et Dessus De Trompette--L. N. Clerambault (1676-1749)
Prelude for the Day--D. Wheatley
Building into Something--D. Wheatley
Bruyeres--C. Debussy (1862-1918)
Traumerei--R. Schumann (1810-1856)
Emperor from Piano Concerto No. 5--L.V. Beethoven (1770-1827)
Autumn Leaves--J. Kosma (1905-1969)
Fantasia & Fugue in C Minor BWV 537--J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Piano Soundtrack for Organ--D. Wheatley

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Dr. Jeffrey Parola, Composer and Organist, in Lenten Recital--March 17 (Music at 8.)

PROGRAM

Introduction in D Minor by Max Reger (1873–1916)



Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639, by J. S. Bach (1685–1750)



Psalm Prelude, Op. 32, No. 1, by Herbert Howells (1892–1983)



Prelude on ‘St. Flavian’ by Healey Willan (1880–1968)

i. Grave

ii. Andante

iv. Moderato

v. Andante



11 Choral-Vorspiele, Op. 122, Nos. 9 & 10 Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

ix. Herzlich tut mich verlangen [1st setting]

x. Herzlich tut mich verlangen [2nd setting]



Solemn Melody Henry Walford Davies (1869–1941)

Improvisations




BIOGRAPHY


JEFFREY PAROLA is an accomplished organist, conductor, vocalist, and composer. As a liturgical musician, his career spans over 20 years, with an eclectic background of performance in a variety of genres. Jeffrey served as Master of the Music at Saint Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Hollywood for 9 years (2012–2021), until his appointment as Director of Music Ministry at Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Community in the summer of 2021.

As a performer, Jeffrey has recently presented local recitals for the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica and the American Guild of Organists, Los Angeles Chapter. In 2016, he made his Walt Disney Concert Hall debut in the world premiere performance of David Lang’s sleeper’s prayer for boy soprano and organ. Jeffrey has also sung professionally with several highly acclaimed ensembles, including the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Schola Cantorum San Francisco, and most recently with Jacaranda Music, The Benedict 16 (San Francisco), Tonality, the Golden Bridge, the Choir of St. James’, and the LASchola.

A composer of numerous orchestral, chamber, and choral/vocal works, Jeffrey’s works have been commissioned and performed around the world, and his goal as a composer is to write music that is meaningful, challenging, and interesting for performers and audiences alike. Jeffrey’s compositions have garnered numerous notable honors, including the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hoefer Prize, the Rappaport Prize for Music Composition, and the European American Musical Alliance Prize.

Jeffrey is a dedicated educator, and he currently serves as Professor of Music Theory at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music. He has served on the faculty of numerous institutions, including the Thornton School of Music (USC) and California State University at Northridge.

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Organist Mallory Haney plays Hauptwerk virtual pipe organs!
Facebook Live starts at 8 pm: https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParlor90019

Biography

Since the age of twelve, Mallory Haney has been serving churches both in Chile and the United States. She is currently organist for La Cañada Congregational Church. She is enrolled in the program of Master of Music in Organ Performance at the USC Thornton School of Music, where she is studying with Professor Cherry Rhodes.
When she was four years old, Mallory moved to Chile where, at age six, she played her first piano performance at the Palacio Rioja. At this time, she realized that music would be a vital part of her life, but yet had no idea what direction it would take. At twelve years of age, she was accepted into the Conservatorio de música de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso where she was the youngest student surrounded by college level classmates. When she was seventeen, she decided to come back to the U.S. to broaden her studies in organ performance. She was accepted at the University of Indiana, Jacobs School of Music and completed the Bachelor of Music degree studying organ with Dr. Janette Fishell.
When she is on vacation from classes, she enjoys the free time to perform. Last summer she had organ concerts in the U.S, Chile and Argentina. She will be continuing her studies in the Graduate Certificate program with Prof. Cherry Rhodes during the coming year.
Her other interests include cycling, working out and yoga. If you would like to hear the organist's performances online, her YouTube Channel and Instagram can be found at Mallory Haney Organista.

Program

Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543 J.S. Bach
(1685-1750)



Suite du Deuxième Ton Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
(1676-1749)



Piece Heroique Cesar Franck
(1822-1890)



Suite pour Organ Op. 5 Maurice Durufle
(1902-1986)



Prelude and Fugue based on B.A.C.H. theme Franz Liszt
(1811-1886)