AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS

MILWAUKEE CHAPTER



  


7:30 pm Stephen Tharp, organ

  • 23 Oct 2012
  • 7:30 PM
  • Church of the Gesu, Milwaukee
Church of the Gesu
presents
STEPHEN THARP, organ


Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 7:30 pm

1145 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI

Free Will Offering


Organ specification

Stephen Tharp, described as having “performed colorfully, rousing and splendid” by The New York Times, is recognized as one of the great concert organists of our age. Having played more than 1300 concerts across 40 tours worldwide, Stephen Tharp has built one of the most well-respected international careers in the world, earning him the reputation as the most traveled concert organist of his generation. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World, and has been given the 2011 International Performer of the Year Award by the New York City chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

His list of performances since 1987 includes such distinguished venues as The Royal Albert Hall, London; St. Eustache, Paris; The Hong Kong Cultural Centre; the Town Halls of Sydney and Adelaide, Australia; Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow; the cathedrals in Berlin and Cologne Cathedrals, Germany; Dvorak Hall, Prague; The Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas; Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles; The Kimmel Center, Philadelphia; and The Riverside Church, New York City.

He is also an active chamber musician nationwide, having performed on organ, piano and harpsichord with artists such as Thomas Hampson, Itzhak Perlman, Jennifer Larmore, Rachel Barton Pine, the American Boychoir (James Litton, conductor), the St. Thomas Choir (John Scott, conductor, in Duruflé’s Requiem), and at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. His 14 solo organ recordings can be found on the JAV, Aeolus, Naxos, Organum and Ethereal labels, and are available from the Organ Historical Society (http://www.ohscatalog.org/), JAV Recordings (http://www.pipeorgancds.com/) and Aeolus (http://www.aeolus-music.com/).

His commercial release The Complete Organ Works of Jeanne Demessieux on Aeolus Recordings, received the 2009 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Germany’s premier critic’s prize for recordings, as well as the French 5 Diapason award. The release was celebrated in October 2010 with Mr. Tharp’s performance of the complete Demessieux works live over three concerts at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Stephen Tharp plays St. Bavo, Haarlem, The Netherlands on the JAV label was called “the most beautiful CD of 2009” by Resmusica in France.

Stephen Tharp earned his BA degree, magna cum laude, from Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL and his MM from Northwestern University, Chicago, where he studied with Rudolf Zuiderveld and Wolfgang Rübsam, respectively. He has also worked privately with Jean Guillou in Paris.

He is currently Artist-in-Residence at Grace Church (Episcopal), New York City. He also served as Organist at St. Patrick's Cathedral from 1995-1997 and the Associate Organist at St. Bartholomew's, NYC, from 1998-2002. For more information, see www.stephentharp.com.


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