Organ Recital by Timothy Spelbring

The Episcopal Chapel of St. John the Divine

Noontime Lenten Organ Concert Series

Thursday, February, 2010, 12:10 pm

Timothy Spelbring, Organist

Prelude in b minor, BWV 544a Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685 – 1750)

Tierce en Taille Pierre DuMage (1674 – 1751)
Fugue in b minor, BWV 544b J.S. Bach
Selections from Orgelbüchlein, BWV 618 – 622 J.S. Bach
O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig
Christus, der uns selig macht
Christe, du Lamm Gottes
Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund
O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross

Pièce Héroïque César Franck (1822 – 1890)
Timothy Spelbring is a doctoral student at the University of Illinois, where he studies organ performance with Dana Robinson. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at the Yale School of Music where he studied with David Boe and Martin Jean respectively. Further studies were at the Eastman School of Music with David Higgs. Spelbring has received numerous awards including the Paul Manz Scholarship, the Selby Houston Prize (awarded at Oberlin), and the E. Stanley Seder Prize (awarded at Yale). In 2001, he served as concert scholar for the Westfield Center for Early Keyboard studies and performed recitals nationally on their behalf. He currently serves as organist at First Presbyterian Church in Danville, Illinois.

A freewill offering will be collected at all of the recitals to be divided among the recitalists at the conclusion of the concert series.

Upcoming Organ Concerts:
Keith Williams – Thursday, February 25 – 12:10 p.m.
Michael Keeley – Thursday, March 4 – 12:10 p.m.
Yohei Endo - Thursday, March 11 – 12:10 p.m.
Stephen Buzard – Thursday, March 18 – 7:30 p.m.