KENTTRITLE Organ Concert

March 10, 2023

7 PM

MeettheArtist

Called “a superb organist” by The New York Times, Kent Tritle performs regularly across the United States and in Europe, and is the organist of the New York Philharmonic. He is also Director of Cathedral Music and Organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, where he leads the Great Music in a Great Space series.

Kent performed Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony with the Philharmonic in 2018 conducted by Antonio Pappano and David Robertson, and in 2010 conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. He has recorded Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Britten’s War Requiem, and Henze’s Symphony No. 9 with the Philharmonic, all conducted by Kurt Masur, as well as the Grammy-nominated Sweeney Todd conducted by Andrew Litton. He is featured on the DVDs The Organistas and Creating the Stradivarius of Organs. Recordings include The Romantic Organ; Kent Tritle at St. Ignatius Loyola; Kevin Oldham’s Organ Symphony No. 1; Duruflé’s Suite for Organ, Op. 5; and a disc of works played on the Noack tracker organ at the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. He has performed recitals at such historic venues as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Zurich Tonhalle, and Church of St. Sulpice in Paris, King’s College (Cambridge), Westminster Abbey, and St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. Kent Tritle is one of America’s leading choral conductors. Called “the brightest star in New York's choral music world” by The New York Times, he is Music Director of the Oratorio Society of New York and of Musica Sacra in addition to his posts at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Kent founded Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, the acclaimed concert series at New York’s Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, in 1989, and led it for 22 years. www.kenttritle.com

Tickets

Available online at stelmo79.org

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Tickets$20 generalseating

Location

VIP Tickets $50 includes pre-concert wine and cheese. VIP seating in choir loft. [limited to 16 people]. Choir loft not handicap accessible.

Church of St. Monica - 413 East 79th Street - New York, NY 10075 - www.stelmo79.org

Five Minute Jesus

The Gospel according to John 4:5-15,