Southern Nevada Chapter
of the
American Guild of Organists
Organ Recital Series – 2009-2010
Sunday, October 26, 2009 at 7:30 P.M.
Sietze deVries
Winner of more than fifteen organ playing
and improvisation competitions, Sietze de Vries from
The Netherlands was the 2002 first-place winner of the prestigious Haarlem
International
Improvisation Competition. His concerts are always extraordinary events.
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 7:30 P.M.
David H. Brock
Trained as a chorister at the National
Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Mr. Brock maintains an active
organ recital schedule across the U.S. He currently resides in Incline
Village, Nevada
Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 7:30 P.M.
Advent-Christmas Recital
This year's edition of the holiday recital will again
be performed by members of the
Southern Nevada Chapter.
Friday, February 26, 2010 at 7:30 P.M.
Dr. David C. Pickering
Assistant Professor of Music at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa,
Dr. Pickering earned his
Bachelor of Music degree at Brigham Young University, and his Master’s
and Doctoral degrees in
musicology and organ performance from the University of Kansas.
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 7:30 P.M.
Dr. Heather Hernandez
Currently Director of Music at the Lutheran Church of the Master in Phoenix,
Arizona, Dr. Hernandez
earned degrees in organ performance from Bethany College (B.M.) and the
University of
Nebraska-Lincoln (M.M. and D. Mus. A.) She is also the accompanist for
the Phoenix
Girls Choir. She has presented organ recitals in the U.S. and in Europe.
Sunday, May 16, 2010 - 4:00 P.M.
Organ Plus
The season finale will present local musicians in a program
of works for organ and instruments. One of the
featured works on the program will be Marcel Dupré’s rarely
heard “Variations on Two Themes,"
Op. 35 for organ and piano, performed by Dorothy Young Riess and Voltaire
Verzosa
The Maurine Jackson Smith organ (53-ranks,
38 stops, and three manuals and pedal)
was completed by the Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau of Hamburg Germany
in 2004.
The organ is the largest pipe organ in Nevada and was a gift to the University
and the
community by the Edward D. Smith family.
Help underwrite the series by becoming a Patron. Donations
are tax-deductible, and checks
made to “Southern Nevada Chapter, AGO” should be sent to Dr.
David Dorway, Treasurer
10613 Shoalhaven Drive, Las
Vegas, NV 89134.
This Organ Recital Series is funded, in part, by a grant from the Nevada
Arts Council, a
division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment
for the Arts, a
federal agency.
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