James Kealey, organist

Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission ~ Voluntary offering

James Kealey won both the First Prize and Audience Prize at the 2022 American Guild of Organists National Young Artist Competition in Organ Performance (NYACOP). James serves as full time Associate Director of Music and Organist at Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York and holds a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. He is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Music Arts degree at Eastman, in the studio of David Higgs. James was named one of The Diapason magazine’s “20 Under 30” in 2021.

View Mr. Kealey’s complete bio here.

Program:

• Percy Whitlock: Grave-Animato (Organ Sonata in C minor)
• Frederick Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring
• Rachel Laurin: Humoresque, Op. 77
• Louis Vierne: Clair de Lune (from Pièces de Fantasie)
• Louis Vierne: Toccata in b-flat minor (from Pièces de Fantasie)
• Herbert Howells: Rhapsody No. 3 in C-sharp minor
• William Grant Still: Reverie
• Jean Langlais: Thème et variations (sur un thème par Frescobaldi)
• César Franck: Choral No. 1 in E major

Artist:

• James Kealey