In-Person
Organ Vespers with Martin Jean
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409 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511
- General Public
Curated by ISM Director Martin Jean, this liturgy is not intended to reconstruct an historic liturgy, but rather to demonstrate original liturgical uses of organ literature within a Lutheran service. Examples of which include short hymn variations used in alternation with the singing of hymn stanzas, and movements from an organ Magnificat, which appear as interpolations within the singing of the canticle by the choir. Hear the Krigbaum meantone organ used in a liturgical setting with the voices of the Yale Consort.
Featuring the music of Hassler, Lassus, Praetorius, and Buxtehude. Free and open to the public.
This event is presented as part of the Yale Consort and Great Organ Music at Yale series.
Contact: Clifton Massey
Organist Bio:
Professor Martin Jean is director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, as well as professor of organ and professor (adjunct) of divinity. He has performed widely throughout the United States and Europe and is known for his broad repertorial interests. A past winner of the Grand Prix de Chartres National Young Artists’ Competition in Organ Performance (AGO), he was a student of Robert Glasgow at the University of Michigan and did extensive coaching with David Craighead and Russell Saunders. In the fall of 1999, he spent a sabbatical with Harald Vogel in North Germany where he prepared a Bach cycle at Yale in 2001 among other projects. He has performed on four continents and in nearly all fifty states, and judged organ competitions in the United States, Korea, Russia, the UK, and France. His compact discs of The Seven Last Words of Christ by Charles Tournemire and the complete Six Symphonies of Louis Vierne, both recorded in Woolsey Hall, have been released by Loft Recordings. Recordings of the organ symphonies and Stations of the Cross of Marcel Dupré are forthcoming. Professor Jean is a former board member of Lutheran Music Program and is represented by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists in North America.
B.A. Concordia College; M.M., A.Mus.D. University of Michigan