The MacGaffin Carillon, 12:00-12:15pm

George Leggiero, carillonneur

Jennifer McPherson

 

Ciaccona                                   

Bernardo Storace (fl. 1664)

 

Ricercare, f# minor (1656)   

Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667)

 

Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 676

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

 

Allegro from Symphony No. 2, Op. 20,            

Louis Vierne (1870-1937)

Jennifer McPherson is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in Historical Performance at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, studying organ with Jonathan Moyer and harpsichord with Webb Wiggins. She graduated cum laude from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, as Organ Scholar of the class of 2013. At Holy Cross, she was the recipient of a full-tuition scholarship and studied with James David Christie. Throughout high school, Jennifer studied organ with Abbey Hallberg-Siegfried. As a recitalist, Jennifer McPherson has performed throughout New England, including Mechanics Hall and All Saints Episcopal in Worcester, MA, as well as Old West Church and King's Chapel in Boston. This past spring, she performed in The Church of the Covenant's recital series in Cleveland, OH. She has performed as organist on concert tours of Ireland and Prague with the Boston College University Chorale under music director John Finney. She has also performed as a free-lance organist with the Newton Choral Society and the Heritage Chorale. Jennifer has participated in organ and harpsichord masterclasses with Webb Wiggins, Lisa Crawford, Jan Overduin, John Grew, Harald Vogel, Hank Knox, Olivier Latry, Gerry Hancock, Paul Jacobs, Marie- Louise Langlais, and Douglas Major. At the age of 21, Jennifer was awarded Third Prize in the prestigious 2012 International Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Organ Competition held at Sweelinck's church, the Oude Kerk, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In the summer of 2013, she won First Prize in the AGO Quimby Region I competition in Hartford, CT, and performed a "Rising Star" at the National AGO Convention in Boston, MA in June 2014. Jennifer was most recently featured on the 2014 Organ Recital Series at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, MA. She is currently employed as Assistant Organist and Music Intern at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Lakewood, OH.

____________________________________________________________

 

Bruce Dickey, cornetto
Liuwe Tamminga, organ

"...the Orfeo of the cornetto..."

Tibia, Germany

"The plangent eloquence and dare-devil bravura of Bruce Dickey's 

cornetto playing would charm the skin off a snake."  
BBC Music Magazine

The cornett, cornetto, or zink is an early wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from 1500-1650. It was used in what are now called alta capellas or wind ensembles often in combination with sackbuts. It is not to be confused with the trumpet-like cornet. The sound of the cornetto is produced by lip vibrations against a cup mouthpiece. It consists of a conical wooden pipe covered in leather, about 24 inches long, and has finger holes and a small horn or ivory mouthpiece.

 

Bruce Dickey is considered one of the world's leading experts in playing this extremely difficult instrument. Dickey and Tamminga are presenting programs at Wellesle College, Holy Cross College, Yale University, Oberlin College, and the Church of the Covenant.