7:00 PM
Church of the Covenant 11205 Euclid Avenue
Free and open to the public
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Event Details/Summary
This performance is presented as part of The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music 31st Annual Meeting held Thursday, April 20 through Sunday, April 23, at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, hosted by the Department of Music in partnership with the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.
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About the Performer
Jonathan William Moyer is the David S. Boe chair and associate professor of organ at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he oversees one of the largest and most diverse collegiate collections of pipe organs in the United States. He is organist of the Church of the Covenant in Cleveland, OH, and has been a visiting-lecturer in organ at the Hochschule für Musik in Lübeck, Germany. He specializes in a vast repertoire from the Renaissance to the 21st century and has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Upcoming concerts include Rikkyo University and Tachkikawa SDA Church in Tokyo; St. Johannis, Lüneburg, St. Katharinen, Hamburg, and Schwerin Cathedral. Recent concerts include St. Jakobikirche (Lübeck), Marienkirche (Berlin), Ludgerikirche (Norden), Laurenskerk (Alkmaar), the Marktkirchethe (Hannover), Blois Cathedral (France), and J.S. Bach’s complete Clavierübung III at the German Reformed Church in Budapest, Hungary and in Loraine, Ohio. His performances have been included on NPR’s nationally syndicated program Pipe Dreams. He has performed with numerous ensembles including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, Blue Water Chamber Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, the Oberlin Symphony Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland), Quire Cleveland, Concert Artists of Baltimore, and the Handel Choir of Baltimore.
At the Church of the Covenant, Dr. Moyer oversees two remarkable pipe organs (Richards Fowkes, Op. 19 and E.M. Skinner/Aeolian Skinner/Holtkamp). His lauded CD "Voices of the Hanse," recorded on the 1637 Stellwagen organ Lübeck, Germany, was released on Gothic Records and features music from 17th-century North German sources. Tonight’s concert repertoire was recently recorded on the organ of John Brombaugh at Central Lutheran Church in Eugene Oregon volume II of “Voices of the Hanse” and will be released later this year.
Dr. Moyers holds degrees in organ and piano from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Peabody Institute of Music, and Bob Jones University. His teachers include Donald Sutherland, Gillian Weir, Olivier Latry, James David Christie, and Ann Schein. In 2008, he received the second prize in the Sixth International Musashino Organ Competition in Tokyo, Japan, and in 2005 he was a finalist in the St. Albans International Organ Competition. He is represented by WindWerk Artists.
Dr. Moyer resides in Shaker Heights, Ohio, along with his wife, organist, Dr. Kaori Hongo, and sons, Christopher Sho and Samuel Kazu.
“It's delightful to hear an organ recital where everything seems so right and the playing so much in the service of the instrument and the repertoire.”
- Cleveland Classical.com
"ever-expressive, stylish, and riveting”
- The Baltimore Sun
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