Independent Presbyterian Church
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2012 November Organ Recital Series

IPC organ console    Photo by Lynn Dobson
2012 November
Organ Recital Series
  
   The forty-eighth annual November Organ Recital Series will be the first for the Schreiber Memorial Organ built by the Dobson Pipe Organ Company and dedicated to the glory of God in May 2012.
 
    More than 150 artists representing the finest talent from the United States and Europe performed on IPC's previous Aeolian-Skinner organ over the past 48 years.  All programs are offered as a gift to the community and are open to the public. Advance tickets are not required. Please contact Barbara Fillmer at 205-933-3700 or bfillmer@ipc-usa.org if you have any questions.
    This series is partially funded by the generosity of the late Mrs. Myrtle Jones Steele to the greater glory of God and in loving memory of her husband, Mr. William Calvin Steele, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wallace Jones. 
 
   
Sunday, November 4, 2012    -  Vincent Dubois
Sunday, November 11, 2012  -  Nathan Laube
Sunday, November 18, 2012  -  Peter DuBois
Sunday, November 25, 2012  -  Peter Sykes
 
                         Birmingham News Article Review of Nathan Laube
                         Birmingham News Article Review of Peter Sykes
 
 
 
                                                       Sunday, November 4, 2012,  4:00 p.m.
 
VINCENT DUBOIS
France
    

           Returning to IPC for his second appearance, Vincent Dubois is one of the finest young concert organists to appear on the world stage in many years. Mr. DuBois is the Director of the conservatoire National of Reims and holds the post of titular organist at the Cathedral of Soissons.

   Read more about Vincent DuBois...

Program 

 
 
 
 
 
                                        Sunday, November 11, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
NATHAN LAUBE
Stuttgart, Germany
 
          Returning to IPC for his fourth appearance, concert organist Nathan J. Laube has quickly earned a place amongst the organ world’s elite performers. His brilliant playing, creative programming, and gracious demeanor have thrilled audiences and presenters across the United States and in Europe, and have earned high praise from critics and peers alike. 
         Mr. Laube has been a featured performer at the 2009 and 2011 national conventions of
the Organ Historical Society. In 2010 he was featured at the national convention of The
American Guild of Organists (Washington DC) and in 2012 at the AGO national convention in Nashville, Tennessee where he performed in a concert for organ and orchestra at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.   
Read more about Nathan Laube...  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
Sunday, November 18, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
PETER DUBOIS
 Rochester, New York 
       Peter Dubois serves as Director of Music/Organist (full time) at Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester, New York, a position he has held since September, 1991.  He oversees a large and active music and arts ministry there.  Since 2000 he has also served as Assistant Professor of Sacred Music (part time) and in 2001 was appointed Director of the Sacred Music Diploma program at the Eastman School of Music. 
Mr. DuBois is the host of the public radio program “With Heart and Voice,” which is a program of sacred choral and organ music produced by WXXI Public Broadcasting in Rochester, New York. It is syndicated nationally to over 100 stations in 36 states.    
 
 
 
 
  
                                            Sunday, November 25, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
PETER SYKES
 Boston, Massachusetts 
       Peter Sykes is one of the most distinguished and versatile keyboard artists performing today.His playing has variously been called “compelling and moving,” “magnificent and revelatory,” and “bold, imaginative, and amazingly accurate.”  He has appeared in recital for the American Guild of Organists, the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society, the Organ Historical Society, Boston Early Music Festival, New England Bach Festival, Portland Chamber Music Festival, and throughout the United States. As a teacher and mentor of aspiring professional performers, he is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Historical Performance Department at Boston University. Since 1985 he has also served as Director of Music at First Church in Cambridge, Congregational.
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Organists Who Have Played at Independent Presbyterian Church
for the Annual November Organ Recital Series (1965-2011)
 
Marie-Claire Alain
Robert Anderson
George Baker
Robert Bates
Diane Meredith Belcher
Jonathan Biggers
E. Power Biggs
Guy Bovet
David Bowman
David Briggs
Ji-Yoen Choi
Douglas Cleveland
James Cook
Robert Clark
Michael Corzine
Ken Cowan
David Craighead
Craig Cramer
Matt Curlee
Lynne Davis
Robert Delcamp
Isabelle Demers
James Diaz
Matthew Dirst
Delbert Disselhorst
James Dorroh
Clive Driskill-Smith
Vincent Dubois
Donald Dumler
Maurice and
     Madeleine Duruflé
Stefan Engels
Richard Enright
Thierry Escaich
Jesse Eschbach
Michael Farris
Laszlo Fassang
Ray Ferguson
Susan Ingrid Ferré
Jeremy Filsell
Patricia Fitzsimmons
Stewart Wayne Foster
Faythe Freese
Jean-Louis Gil
Robert Glasgow
David Goode
Eileen Guenther
Stephen Hamilton
Gerre Hancock

Judith Hancock
Martin Haselböck
Jonathan Hehn
David Heller
Christopher Herrick
Richard Heschke
David Higgs
Heather Hinton
Edith Ho
Frederick Hohman
Christopher Houlihan
David Hurd
Peter Hurford
Warren Hutton
Gunnar Idenstam
Paul Jacobs
Marie-Louise Jaquet
Martin Jean
Wilma Jensen
Joyce Jones
Marilyn Keiser
George Kent
James Kibbie
Robert Burns King
Otto Krämer
Marek Kudlicki
Susan Landale
Jean Langlais
Olivier Latry
Nathan Laube
Paul Lee
Jean-Pierre Leguay
Huw Lewis
Joan Lippincott
Heinz Lohmann
Ludger Lohmann
Kenneth Lowenberg
Andrew Lumsden
Donald McDonald
Jeff R. McLelland
George McPhee
Marilyn Mason
John Mitchener
James Moeser
Richard Morris
Alan Morrison
Michael Murray
Thomas Murray
Martin Neary
Bruce Neswick
Simon Nieminski
John Obetz
Sam Batt Owens
Jane Parker-Smith
Richard Peek
Flor Peeters
Gregory Peterson
Pierre Pincemaille
Peter Planyavsky
Robert Poovey
Michael Radulescu
Robert Rayfield
Cherry Rhodes
George Ritchie
McNeil Robinson
Schuyler Robinson
Catherine Rodland
John Rose
Daniel Roth
Joseph Schreiber
John Scott
Keith Shafer
Morgan Simmons
Larry Smith
Rollin Smith
Ann Elise Smoot
Sandra Soderlund
Martin Souter
Herndon Spillman
Ronald Stalford
Frederick Swann
Peter Sykes
William Teague
Carole Terry
Edward Tibbs
Tom Trenney
Thomas Trotter
John Tuttle
James Walker
John Walker
John Weaver
Marianne Webb
Gillian Weir
Bradley Welch
William Whitehead
Gordon Wilson
Grady Wilson
Todd Wilson
Timothy Wissler
Scott Withrow
Wim van der Panne
Christopher Young