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

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Saturday, September 21, 2024 7:30 PM

David Wheatley--keyboardist, composer, and comedian! (Music at 8 pm)

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The Program includes a super-exciting array of styles including classical, jazz and original pieces by composers including Bach, Whitlock, Handel, Wheatley and others. David will make the rounds throughout the parlor playing the organ, piano and harmonium. In addition to his interesting musical choices, the evening will be punctuated with David’s witty observations and humorous stories…including a few surprises!

Biography

David Wheatley is an award-winning organist, pianist and composer based in Los Angeles, California. He was born and raised in Guelph, Ontario Canada where he received his early musical training. He attended the University of Toronto and studied with Clifford Poole at the Royal Conservatory of Music where he holds the ARCT in both Piano and Pipe Organ Performance. David tied for first place for The Edward Johnson Music Foundation Award in Guelph for classical organ performance. He also won the Ron Collier Composition Contest then held annually in Toronto. He has a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of North Texas (formerly North Texas State University) and holds a Master’s Degree in Composition from the University of Southern California. Wheatley’s diverse background includes performing the Bach B Minor Mass on the organ with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra during a 20-city tour including Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; recording the Five Pieces for Orchestra by Arnold Schoenberg with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for Nonesuch Records; performing solo organ recitals at various venues such as The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles and for Pasadena Presbyterian Church’s Music at Noon Series; was one of three recitalists who performed a solo organ program in Glendora, California for the American Guild of Organists, Los Angeles Chapter; as well as giving organ recitals in Canada. David has also performed solo piano and organ concerts in Laguna Beach and Glendale, California. Conductors that he has played under include Daniel Lewis, Anshel Brusilow, Helmuth Rilling, Lionel Newman, Jaco Wong and others. David conducted his original orchestral work, Kroma, with the University of North Texas Symphony and conducted an original film score with the National Philharmonic of London. As a young composer, he was invited to be part of an anthology which was a Premiere of Seven Compositions for the Piano. His composition, Five Short Pieces for Piano, is included in the published anthology edited by Joseph Banowetz and published by Neil A. Kjos, Jr. in one of their Composers of Today editions. Wheatley’s original composition, Duo for Two Marimbas, was performed in the summer of 2023 in Japan by percussionist Kazuhide Takeshita. For four Sundays in July of 2023, David was guest organist at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, home to what is considered to be the second largest church pipe organ in the world. He also performed a 30-minute prelude concert before each service which is a weekly tradition at that church. David has served as organist, pianist, music director and choir director for numerous churches of many denominations. He has also played the organ for graduations at UCLA’s prestigious Royce Hall. In August of 2019, he traveled to London, England where he visited and played eight historical pipe organs with an eye towards giving future concerts there. David will be performing the Organ Concerto in G minor by Francis Poulenc with the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra on September 22, 2024, at 3pm at First United Methodist Church in Ventura, California. For more information, go to cichamberorchestra.org. David is currently on the Executive Committee as Member-at-Large of the American Guild of Organists, Los Angeles Chapter. For more information on David, please visit his website: davidwheatley.net

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Sep 27 at 7:30 pm

Thomas Mellan plays Hauptwerk virtual pipe organs!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-mel ... 1469200607

PROGRAM

- Marcel Dupré (1886-1971): Deux Esquisses, Op. 41

- Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915): Piano Sonata No. 9 "The Black Mass" (arr. Mellan)

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Adagio in B minor, K.540 (arr. Mellan)

- Nestor Nyzhankyvskyi (1893-1940): Prelude and Fugue on a Ukrainian folk melody (arr. Mellan)

- Anton Webern (1883-1945): Variations, Op. 27 (arr. Mellan)

- Max Reger (1873-1916): Symphonic Fantasy and Fugue Op. 57 "Inferno"



BIOGRAPHY

Thomas Mellan is an organist, pianist, producer and composer based in Los Angeles. In 2012, he played his first recital at Eglise St. Eustache in Paris. He is featured in the official Walt Disney concert hall organ DVD. In 2018, his European tour included a residency at the Lviv Concert Hall, where he gave the Ukrainian premier of Messiaen’s Livre d’Orgue on the largest organ in Ukraine. As a classical organist he specializes in virtuosic repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as French classical music.

His classical music has been performed in America, Europe and Asia by performers including the Sakura Cello Quintet, Orest Smovzh, Stephen Tharp and Jared Jacobsen. His output features « impossible » organ music that attempts to push the limits of organ technique, but also a 40-minute set of inventions for solo violin, a concerto for five cellos, and more cinematic atonal classical music.

He's the creator behind the darksynth project DeKapital, releasing dark soundscapes influenced by modern synthwave, death metal and modernist classical music.

He can be heard playing harpsichord and synthesizers on Delirium Musicum’s debut album “Seasons”, released in 2023 by Warner Classics and produced by Fred Vogler.

He graduated from the USC Thornton School of Music in 2017 with a BM in organ and composition and

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Oct 13, 2024 Tyler Zimmerman plays Halloween organ music!
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Feb 14, 2025 Dr. Joseph Simms plays Hauptwerk organs!
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Oct 25, 2024 Mallory Haney plays Haunted Hauptwerk organs!
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Dec 14 at 8 pm: Dr. Peiyao Yu plays Christmas music on Hauptwerk organs!
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Jan 9 @ 8 pm Live stream. https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParlor90019
Ethan Haman plays Caen and Rotterdam HW organs!
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Feb 28 at 8. -- Cancelled
Makenna James plays Hauptwerk virtual organs!
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Live stream: https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParlor90019

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Mar 10--Makenna James Plays Hauptwerk virtual pipe organs!

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Mar 16, 2025: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-peiyao- ... tdtcreator
Dr. Peiyoao Yu plays organ masterworks!