Organ Recital Series
Tickets
Tickets for Organ Recital Series concerts are $7 for adults, $5 for senior citizens and students. All seats are general admission. Community Hymn Sings are generally free and open to the public.
Tickets are available for pre-sale through the Goshen College Welcome Center by calling (574) 535-7566. VISA/MasterCard/Discover accepted.
1. Martin Hodel, trumpet & Bradley Lehman, organ
Sunday 09.23.2007 4:00 pm Rieth Recital Hall
As a soloist, Martin Hodel has been featured on the Minnesota Public Radio programs "Pipedreams" and "A
Prairie Home Companion," live on public television and network radio, and
on several commercial CDs. He was a featured soloist with conductor Helmuth
Rilling and Metropolitan Opera soprano Marlis Peterson on Bach's Cantata No.
51 in 2005. Hodel is a substitute member of the Minnesota Orchestra and performed
in the trumpet section of that group full time during the 2005-06 season. In
addition, he has shared the stage with jazz greats Maria Schneider, Joe Henderson
and Slide Hampton. Martin is an associate professor of music at St. Olaf College
in Northfield, Minn., where he teaches trumpet and music theory.
Bradley Lehman has released seven solo CDs on organ, harpsichord and clavichord. His recording "A Joy Forever" features Goshen College's Opus 41 pipe organ in Rieth Recital Hall, built by Taylor & Boody Organbuilders to the tuning specifications of J.S. Bach, which Lehman discovered, and which has received notable, world-wide attention. A recent segment of the American Public Media program "Pipedreams" was devoted to this discovery and to Lehman's performances using this tuning. He is also an active and award-winning composer, and several of his compositions are featured on Hodel-Lehman duo programs. Lehman resides in Dayton, Va.
2. Carol Terry, organ
Saturday 01.19.2008 7:30 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Carole Terry is Professor of Organ and Harpsichord at the University of Washington
School of Music in Seattle. Her career as a renowned performer and pedagogue
of the organ and harpsichord has taken her to many cities and universities
throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East. Especially known for
her performances and recordings of German Romantic music, she is also an expert
on the physiology of keyboard performance -- the subject of her forthcoming
academic work. Terry is on the Board of Governors of The Westfield Center
for Keyboard Studies, a national resource for the advancement of keyboard
music. She is also a member of the College of Mentors at The John Ernest Foundation,
where her role is to promote the enrichment of young organ scholars, organ
performances and the encouragement of organ studies.
3. Andreas Jetter, organ
Sunday 01.20.2008 4:00 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Andreas Jetter was born in southern Germany 1978. He received his musical
education under Professor Boris L’vov at the
Rachmaninov Conservatory in Tambov (Russia) and with Wei Tsin Fu at the Tübingen
Music Academy, going on to study privately with, among others, Mikhail Pletnev
and Viktor Merzanov at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Andreas Jetter
has performed with many prestigious orchestras including the Moscow Philharmonic,
the Bucharest Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra,
the Singapore Philharmonic Orchestra, the arcademia sinfonica, the Southwest
German Philharmonic (Constance) and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. Andreas
Jetter’s wideranging repertoire includes works for piano solo, piano
concertos and chamber music. His performances have often been broadcast on
radio and television in France, Sweden, Poland, Coatia, Romania, Russia and
the USA. In Germany his concert recordings have been broadcast by various
channels including BR, SWR and NDR.
4. Shirley Sprunger King, organ
Sunday, 03.16.2008 4:00 pm Rieth Recital Hall
Shirley Sprunger King is Director of Academic Advising and Adjunct Professor
of Organ and Harpsichord at Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.). Prior to moving
to south-central Pennsylvania in 2003, she chaired the music department while
teaching organ, music history and theory, and coaching chamber music at Bethel
College (Kan.) for 25 years. She was organist at Bethel College Mennonite
Church and organist-harpsichordist for the Wichita Symphony Orchestra for
26 years. King has been active in the Midwest and in Pennsylvania as a recitalist,
presenter for church music workshops, and an organ consultant.