Frederick Teardo, organ

DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS

FREDERICK TEARDO ORGAN OCTOBER 14, 2010 Woolsey Hall Thursday at 8 pm

MUSIC BY Elgar Schumann Franck Dupré Travers Reger

Robert Blocker, Dean

PROGRAM

SIR EDWARD ELGAR 1857-1934

ROBERT SCHUMANN

Sonata for Organ, Op. 28 I. Allegro maestoso

1810-1856

Studien für den Pedal-Flügel, Op. 56 II. Mit innigem Ausdruck V. Nicht zu schnell

CÉSAR FRANCK

Prière, Op. 20

1822-1890

MARCEL DUPRÉ

Prelude and Fugue in B Major, Op. 7, No. 1

1886-1971 Intermission

AARON TRAVERS b. 1975

MAX REGER 1873-1916

Three Pieces for Organ (2000) I. Black Riders II. Here and There III. Upon a High Place

Fantasie über den Choral “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme,” Op. 52, No. 2

This performance is in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree.

As a courtesy to others, please silence all phones and devices.

Photography of any kind is strictly prohibited. Please do not leave the hall during musical selections. Thank you.

FREDERICK TEARDO ORGAN

Frederick Teardo is Associate Organist at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York City, where he holds primary responsibility for service playing, accompanying the Choir of Men and Boys, and training the Junior Choir.

Prior to this appointment, Mr. Teardo served as Assistant Organist at St. Thomas Church since September 2006.

Mr. Teardo received both the Master of Music and Master of Musical Arts degrees from the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. At Yale, he studied organ with Thomas Murray and harpsichord with Richard Rephann.

During Mr. Teardo’s time at Yale, he held the post of Yale University Chapel Organist, and later served as Assistant Organist at Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green in New Haven, CT. Mr. Teardo received his Bachelor of Music degree with highest honors from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied organ with David Higgs. His other teachers have included Stephen Roberts and Haskell Thomson. He has also studied improvisation with William Porter and Jeffrey Brillhart.

An avid performer, Mr. Teardo has won first prize in numerous competitions and has performed across the United States, including such venues as St. Bartholomew’s Church, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; Washington National Cathedral, Grace Cathedral (San Francisco), Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Trinity Church Copley Square (Boston), and

Princeton University Chapel. He has also been a featured performer at the regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists and Organ Historical Society, on American Public Media’s Pipedreams, BBC Radio 3 with the St. Thomas Choir, and in a segment on the revived interest of the pipe organ on ABC’s World News Tonight.

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COMING UP Yale Philharmonia October 22 | 8 pm | Fri Woolsey Hall Peter Oundjian conducts Glinka’s Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla ; Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto, with soloist Nathaniel Chase; and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor.

Yale Voxtet: Ayres & Dances October 24 | 4 pm | Sun Center for British Art James Taylor, director, with Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord.

Presented by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Yale Schola Cantorum October 30 | 5 pm | Sat Woolsey Hall Monteverdi’s Vespers. Masaaki Suzuki, director. Pre-concert talk by Jeffrey Kurtzman at 4 pm. Presented by the Yale Institute for Sacred Music.

OPERA SCENES october 29–30 scenes from

Don Giovanni La traviata Of Mice and Men Falstaff La clemenza di Tito I Capuleti e i Montecchi Anna Bolena Faust presented by

Yale Opera different repertoire each night Marc Verzatt, stage director Fri & Sat | 7:30 pm | Sprague Hall Tickets $10-15 • Students $5 • 203 432-4158

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