Great Organ Music at Yale | Robert Quinney

Event time: 
Sunday, September 15, 2019 - 3:30pm
Location: 
Woolsey Hall (WOOL) See map
500 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Admission: 
Free; no tickets or registration
Open to: 
General Public
Event description: 

Music of Bach, Mendelssohn, and Dupré

Robert Quinney (born 1976 in Nottingham, England) is Director of the Choir of New College, Oxford, and was formerly Sub-Organist at Westminster Abbey and Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral. In addition to his work at New College, he has a busy freelance career as soloist, ensemble player, and writer on music. Since October 2009 he has been Director of Oundle for Organists, whose residential courses provide inspiring tuition for young organists.

In 2002 Quinney was named Royal College of Organists Performer of the Year.

PROGRAM

Felix Mendelssohn, arr. W. T. Best, Prelude & Fugue in E minor (WoO)

J. S. Bach, Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot, BWV 678 & 679

J. S. Bach, Passacaglia, BWV 582

Felix Mendelssohn, arr. Robert Quinney, Prelude & Fugue in B flat, Op. 35 no 6

C.-M. Widor, Andante sostenuto (Symphonie Gothique)

Marcel Dupré, Évocation (Poème Symphonique)