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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RENOWNED ORGANIST KENT TRITLE TO PERFORM LIVE DURING INAUGURAL SEASON OF PAUL TAYLOR’S AMERICAN MODERN DANCE
TRITLE TO PERFORM AS LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY BRINGS DORIS HUMPHREY’S “PASSACAGLIA” TO THE STAGE
NEW YORK, February 3, 2015 – Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance (PTAMD) announced today that renowned organist Kent Tritle will perform during its Inaugural Season at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in March. Mr. Tritle will perform as the Limón Dance Company revives Doris Humphrey’s Passacaglia, which is set to the Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Mr. Tritle has been organist of the New York Philharmonic since 1994 and the American Symphony Orchestra since 1993. He is also Director of Cathedral Music and Organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. He performed Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony with the Philharmonic in June 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. Solo recordings include The Romantic Organ, Kent Tritle at St. Ignatius Loyola, and a disc of works played on the Noack tracker organ at the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow.
As an organ recitalist Mr. Tritle performs regularly in Europe and across the United States. Recital venues have included the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Zurich Tonhalle, and Church of St. Sulpice in Paris, King’s College (Cambridge), Westminster Abbey, and St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.
Mr. Tritle will perform on the following dates:
Saturday, March 14 at 8:00 p.m. Syzygy • Passacaglia • Beloved Renegade Sunday, March 22 at 2:00 p.m. Company B • Passacaglia • Piazzolla Caldera Wednesday, March 25 at 7:00 p.m. Passacaglia • Big Bertha • Troilus and Cressida (reduced) • Beloved Renegade Friday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. Aureole • Troilus and Cressida (reduced) • Eventide • Passacaglia
The balance of the live music repertory will be performed by Orchestra of St. Luke’s, led by maestro Donald York.
Major funding for the 2015 Season is provided by The SHS Foundation and the Board of Trustees and Friends of the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation. Support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Funding is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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