About this Event
Today's Mayfair Organ Concert is given by Damin Spritzer (University of Oklahoma) who will perform the following programme:
Dom Paul Benoit OSB - Toccata pour la Fête Toussaint
Calvin Hampton - 'At the ballet' from Five Dances
Harvey Grace - Meditation 'Ave Maris Stella' from Monologues
Samuel Prouse Warren - Prelude and Fugue in A flat
Searle Wright - Lyric Rhapsody
Marie Louise-Girod - Triptyque sur l’Hymne 'Sacris Solemnis'
As always admsission is free with a retiring collection
Dr. Damin Spritzer is Area Chair and Associate Professor of Organ at the University of Oklahoma. She continues to work with the Cathedral Church of Saint Matthew in Dallas as Artist-in-Residence for Cathedral Arts. Formerly Adjunct Professor at the University of North Texas teaching Organ Literature and Sacred Music, she is active in the Dallas and Oklahoma City Chapters of the American Guild of Organists and serves on committees for the Organ Historical Society, the Association of Anglican Musicians, and Organlive Media Foundation. She received her doctorate from the University of North Texas, her Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music, and her Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
She has performed at historic churches and instruments in Belgium, Brazil, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Norway, and Scotland, and has been honored to contribute to regional and national convention performances and lectures in Austin, Kansas City, Denver, Dallas, Cincinnati, Columbus, Minnesota, and Seattle. Performance venues in 2024 included St. Paul’s Cathedral (London), the University of Glasgow (Scotland), Exeter College Chapel (Oxford, England), and St John the Evangelist (Islington, London), as well throughout the US. Her 2023 performances included venues in the United States as well as in Germany, Belgium, and England. Performances in the United States have included the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; two appearances with the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston; the University of Houston 2012 Conference on Historical Eclecticism: Organ Building and Playing in the 21st Century; the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, and the 2017 International Trombone Festival in Redlands, California.
She is in the process of preparing to release her eighth commercial CD recording, focused exclusively on works by women composers. Volume I was recorded in the US in January of 2025, slated for release later this year, and Volume II will be recorded in France. She recorded her seventh CD, also in France, on the 1849 John Abbey organ at the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Châlons, released in fall of 2023. Spritzer’s sixth CD, recorded in England in 2022 and released in fall of 2022, has received five effusive international reviews. Her acclaimed fifth CD for Raven Recordings was recorded in England where she was the first American and the first woman to record at historic Hereford Cathedral on the landmark Fr. Willis organ. It received a four star review from Choir & Organ and five stars from Organists Review, which said, “Damin Spritzer’s performance is spellbinding – and her wide-ranging program notes are fascinating….on so many levels this CD impresses as as serious undertaking.”
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St George's Hanover Square, St George Street, W1, St George's Hanover Square, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
