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THE TUESDAY CONCERT SERIES Since Epiphany was founded in 1842, music has played a vital role in the life of the parish. Today, Epiphany has three fine THE CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY musical instruments which are frequently used in programs and at Metro Center worship. The Steinway D concert grand piano was a gift to the church in 1984, in memory of parishioner and vestry member Paul Shinkman. The 64-rank, 3,467-pipe Æolian-Skinner pipe organ was installed in 1968 and has recently been restored by the Di Gennaro-Hart Co. It was originally given in memory of Adolf Torovsky, Epiphany’s organist and choirmaster for nearly fifty years. The 3-stop chamber organ by Orglarstvo Škrabl of Slovenia was commissioned in 2014 in memory of Albert and Frances Manola. HOW YOU CAN HELP SUPPORT THE SERIES 1317 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20005 The Tuesday Concert Series reaches out to the entire www.epiphanydc.org metropolitan Washington community. Most of today’s free-will offering goes directly to our performers but a small portion [email protected] helps to defray the cost of administration, advertising and Tel: 202-347-2635 instrumental upkeep. WE ASK YOU TO CONSIDER A MINIMUM OF $10 TUESDAY CONCERT SERIES 2017 We also invite you to consider becoming a PARTNER OF T H E TUESDAY CONCERT SERIES 13 JUNE 2017 at a giving level comfortable for you. 12:10PM We invite you to consider becoming a Partner which you can do at a giving level comfortable for you. For further Please ensure that all cellular phones, pagers, and other electronic devices are turned off information on how to support the series in this way, please before the performance begins. take a Partnership brochure available at the back of the church. For further information on this or if you wish to receive an email giving details of the following week’s program, please email Arrien Davison, Director of Communications at [email protected]. Any other inquiries regarding the series, please contact Jeremy Filsell, Director of Music at 202-347-2635 ext. 18 and [email protected] ERIK WM. SUTER organ PARTNERS OF THE TUESDAY CONCERTS SERIES JEREMY FILSELL Kirkland & Ellis Law Partnership piano Hogan Lovells US LLP Legal Solutions Alan M. King Christine Windheuser David Pozorski & Anna Romanski John Kattler David Post and Nancy Birdsall Erna and Michael Kerst Norman R. Schou & Mary S. Alexander Joyce Walker and Jon Wakelyn Anna & Micahel Karavangelos Charles Berardesco & Jeffrey Thurston PROGRAM orchestral score on the organ). Jeremy is on the international roster of Steinway Piano Artists and has recorded for BBC Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) Radio 3, USA, and Scandinavian radio networks in solo and Prélude et Fugue en B majeur Op. 7 no. 1 concerto roles. His discography comprises more than 30 solo Variations sur un Noêl Op. 20 recordings. Gramophone magazine commented on the series of 12 CDs comprising the premiere recordings of Marcel Dupré’s Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) complete organ works for Guild in 2000 that it was ’one of the greatest achievements in organ recording’. In 2005, Signum released Variations on a theme of Paganini Op. 43 a 3-disc set of the six organ symphonies of Louis Vierne, recorded on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in St. Ouen Rouen. Erik Wm. Suter, a native of Chicago, is a musician of This was BBC Radio 3's Disc of the Week in September of that international acclaim. For nearly 10 years, he served as Organist year. He has taught at universities, summer schools, and at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC. He conventions in both the UK and USA and has served on holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Yale University, international competition juries in England and Switzerland. and his teachers were Haskell Thomson, Thomas Murray, and Recent solo recital engagements have taken him across the USA Gerre Hancock. Previously, he held positions at Trinity and UK and to Germany, France, Finland, Sweden and Church, Copley Square, and at the Parish of All Saints, both in Norway. In North America, he concertizes under the auspices Boston; and at Trinity Church-on-the-Green in New Haven, of Philip Truckenbrod Concert Artists. As a student of Nicolas Connecticut. Mr. Suter has performed extensively throughout Kynaston in London and Daniel Roth in Paris, Jeremy studied the United States and Canada as well as in many Asian and as an Organ Scholar at Oxford University (Keble) before European countries. He has performed at national conventions completing graduate studies in piano performance with David of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara at the Royal College of Music Society. As a continuo artist, he has appeared with The in London. He was awarded a PhD at Birmingham Philadelphia Orchestra and National Symphony Conservatoire/BCU for research involving aesthetic and Orchestra. Mr. Suter has been under the exclusive concert interpretative issues in the music of Marcel Dupré. Before management of Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc. Mr. Suter won moving to the USA in 2008, he held lectureships in Musicology first prize in the 1991 Conrad Sulzer Young Artist’s Piano and Organ Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London Competition in Chicago; first prize in the 1993 Chicago and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and American Guild of Organists Young Organist’s Competition; was a lay clerk in the Queen’s choir at St. George's Chapel, first prize in the 1995 National Undergraduate Organ Windsor Castle. He currently combines an international recital Competition in Iowa; the Gold Medal of the Mayor of and teaching career with being director of music at The Church Musashino/Tokyo in the 1996 International Organ of the Epiphany in Washington DC, artist-in-residence at Competition in Japan; and first prize in the 1997 Yale Biennial Washington National Cathedral, and Professor of Organ at the Organ Competition. He was a two-time finalist in the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. www.jeremyfilsell.com prestigious AGO National Young Artists Competition in Organ Playing. Mr. Suter has been featured numerous times on the nationally syndicated American Public Media FORTHCOMING CONCERTS show Pipedreams. His recordings, including 5 solo compact 20 June discs, can be found on the JAV Recordings, Gothic, and Pro The Choir of St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland Organo labels. Mr. Suter is a commercial pilot and flight This British cathedral choir is currently on tour on the east instructor. Based at Washington National Airport, he is a coast: Sing Joyfully: five centuries of British choral classics captain on the Canadair Regional Jet flying for American Eagle. He lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland with his wife and 27 June son. www.erikwmsuter.com Nicole Levesque, mezzo soprano Jeremy Filsell, piano A recital of the Songs of Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Jeremy Filsell is one of only a few virtuoso performers as both pianist and organist. He has appeared as a solo pianist in 4 July Russia, Scandinavia and throughout the USA and UK. His The USAF String Quartet concerto repertoire encompasses Bach, Mozart and Beethoven plays a patriotic program of works by Sousa, Joplin & Dvorak through to Shostakovich, John Ireland, and Rachmaninov. He for Independence Day. has recorded the solo piano music of Herbert Howells, Bernard Stevens, Eugene Goossens, and Johann Eschmann for Guild 11 July and recently released were discs of Rachmaninov’s piano music Helene Papadopoulos piano for Signum and two of French Mélodies accompanying Michael plays the seminal Goldberg Variations BWV 988 of J. S. Bach. Bundy (baritone) for Naxos. Later his year, recording releases will include a disc of Gaston Litaize’s organ music, and the 18 July 1st and 2ndPiano Concertos of Rachmaninov (recorded at the Adam Ebert clarinet, Raffi Kasparian piano Wanamaker store, Philadelphia, with Peter Conte realizing the play Mozart and the charming Five Bagatelles of Gerald Finzi .