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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hamline Church’s Casavant Frères organ with esteemed concert organist Nicole Keller featuring Bach’s Passacaglia BWV 582, works by Ethel Smyth, George Shearing, Charles Tournemire and more. Reception to follow. Freewill offering. RELATED MASTER CLASS OPPORTUNITY
Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 10:00am-12:00pm.
Ms. Keller will lead a Master Class at Hamline Church for organ students in the region, also at Hamline Church United Methodist.
Free and open to the public
ABOUT THE PERFORMER:
Nicole Keller is a concert artist in high demand specializing in eclectic programs that span the centuries and musical styles with ease. Her performances have featured historic and significant instruments and venues including St. Patrick Cathedral, New York; Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Paris; Dom St. Stephan, Passau; St. Patrick Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Ireland; and The Kazakh National University for the Arts, Astana, Kazakhstan. Appearances with orchestra include concertos, works for small chamber orchestra, and large works involving organ, harpsichord, and piano. She has extensive experience as a chamber musician and continuo player, including many performances of Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions, Christmas Oratorio, and Mass in B minor in addition to a host of baroque cantatas and chamber music. Recent concerts featured five world premieres for solo organ, chamber orchestra and vocal ensemble including Concerto for Organ No. 5 in memoriam György Ligeti by Bálint Karosi, and the debut of Handel: Made in America by Terrance McKnight and Pat Eakin Young at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Her debut commercial recording, Those Americans, was released by Raven CDs this year and is a narrative on the American landscape of organ composition through the works of Rayner Brown, Calvin Hampton, Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Anne Wilson. She was recently appointed to the faculty of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan and is Visiting Instructor of Organ at the Interlochen Arts Academy.
Nicole Keller received the Performer’s Certificate and the Master of Music Degree in Organ Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York under the tutelage of David Higgs. While at Eastman, she studied continuo with Arthur Haas and improvisation with Gerre Hancock. She received the Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance from the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio, where she studied piano with George Cherry and Jean Stell and organ with Margaret Scharf.
The Frères Casavant Organ, Opus 3217
The Casavant organ consists of two instruments built by this company.
The Antiphonal Organ was installed in the rear balcony in 1972. This organ console consists of one manual and full pedal board. The pipes and chests are mounted on the rear wall on either side of the Samuel F. Kerfoot stained glass window. It contains 8 stops, 13 ranks, and 793 pipes. It can be played from the Chancel Organ console as well as from the console in the balcony.
The Chancel Organ, built in 1974, has a console of three manuals and a full pedal board. It has 39 stops, 52 ranks and 3,535 pipes, plus chimes, cymbelstern, and nachtigall. The Great division and part of the Pedal division are placed on either side of the George Henry Bridgman stained glass window on the front (chancel) wall. The Positiv division stands at the base of the same window and above the reredos. The remainder of Pedal division fits in the chamber to the right of the chancel. The Swell division is immediately behind the Pedal division.
Two digital stops, 32-foot Sub Bourdon and Posaune, were added to the Pedal division in 1995. It is a memorial to Ellen M. Erickson, given by her daughter and son-in-law, Jean and Wilbur (Chris) Donaldson. In 2000 the combination pistons were enlarged and converted to computerized controls. In 2001 a Nachtigall stop was added. Two new stops (16-foot Diapason and a 10⅔-foot Quintbass) and forty-four 16-foot open wood pipes were added to the Pedal division in 2014.
About the Music and Arts Series at Hamline Church:
http://www.hamlinechurch.org/music-arts-series
The Music and Arts Series provides exceptional and meaningful performances to enrich the lives of those in the Hamline Midway neighborhood and the greater Twin Cities community. The 2024-25 season is filled with a diverse and exciting lineup of high-quality instrumental, choral, musical theatre, R&B, bluegrass, and dance artists. Learn more about the individual performers or purchase a season pass. You can help support the series by volunteering, making a financial contribution, and most importantly: attending concerts! Please contact artistic director, David Kozisek at [email protected] for more information.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1514 Englewood Ave #1299, Saint Paul, MN, United States, Minnesota 55104
