Evensong on First Sunday after the Epiphany January 9, 2022 Welcome to Christ Church Cathedral! Fully vaccinated worshipers are encouraged to wear masks indoors on campus. Worshipers who are not fully vaccinated, including children over the age of two, are expected to wear masks. We have a socially distanced and masked seating section available. The east transept and first rows near the pulpit are reserved for those who choose both to physically distance and wear masks. If you’re sitting in the marked sections, you’re expected to wear masks and sit socially distanced.
Organ Recital quarter past four o’clock in the afternoon
Thomas Gaynor, organist Applause is an appropriate expression of appreciation and thanksgiving. Épiphanie Reges Tharsis (Méditation sur l’offertoire de l’Epiphanie) Marche des Trois Rois Mages
Gaston Litaize (1909-1991) Gaston Litaize Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)
Fiat Lux Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, Krebs-WV 552
Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780)
Fantasie and Fugue on Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, Op. 25 Heinrich Reimann (1850-1906) Thomas Gaynor is an organist, continuo player, accompanist and choral director. He is the first-place winner of a number of international competitions including St Albans 2017, Erfurt/Weimar Bach-Liszt 2015, and Sydney 2015. As a recitalist he has performed across the Americas, Europe and Australasia. Recent highlights include a recital in Notre-Dame de Paris; Lahti Organ Festival, Finland; Bogotà Bach Organ Festival, Colombia; Bergamo International Organ Festival, Italy; Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland; Musashino Concert Hall, Tokyo, Japan; and Sydney Town Hall, Australia. Thomas is a recent graduate of David Higgs’s studio in the DMA program at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he was awarded the highly coveted Artist’s Certificate – an honor the institution had not given an organist for three decades. Born in New Zealand, he began his organ studies at Wellington Cathedral, working with Michael Fulcher first as an organ scholar and later as honorary sub-organist. More recently, he was associate Director of Music at Christ Church, Pittsford, NY. He currently resides in Houston, where he is associate Director of Music at Saint John Vianney Catholic Church. His masterclass and private study with many of today’s most influential artists include Cameron Carpenter, Ken Cowan, Olivier Latry, Jaques Van Oortmerssen, Jean-Baptiste Robin, Stephen Tharp and Harald Vogel.