Oberlin College and Conservatory

Faculty Recital: Jonathan Moyer, organ

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 8:00pm to 10:00pm

Warner Concert Hall
77 West College Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

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A faculty recital by Jonathan Moyer, organ.

Program:

Praeambulum super D                                     Das Buxheimer Orgelbuch

Ma doulce amour

 

Circuli                                                                      Franz Danksagmüller

 

Constantia                                                                            Codex Faenza

                                                                                                 

Gentil donna                                                     Bartolomeo Tromboncino                                                                                                                                                          

Gagliarda 'L'herba fresca'                                         Intabolatura Nova di Balli

Gagliarda 'Gamba'                                                              

Gagliarda 'Comadrina'

 

Echo ad manuale duplex, forte & lene, SSWV 128              Samuel Scheidt

                                                                                                 

Merry Fugue                                                                    Jonathan Moyer

                                                                           

 

Es ist das Heil uns kommen her                                Matthias Weckmann

      Primus Versus a 5 Voc Im vollen Werck                                 

      Secundus Versus Mannualiter Canon in Hyperdiapente post minimam                                            

      Tertius Versus Auff 2 Clav.                                                                                    

      Quartus Versus a 3 Pedaliter Canon in subdiapason post Semininimam                                           

      Quintus Versus a 3 Pedal(iter) Canon in disdiapente post semiminimam                                          

      Sextus Versus Auff 2 Clavier                                                                                     

      Septimus et ultimus Versus Coral im Tenor Manualiter et pedal

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Jonathan William Moyer maintains a dynamic career as an organist, pianist, singer, and conductor. He specializes in a vast repertoire from the renaissance to the 21st century, and he has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, including such venues as Washington National Cathedral, the Musashino Civic Cultural Hall in Tokyo, and at the Dvôrák Spring Festival in Prague and Vienna. He is a member of the critically acclaimed early music vocal ensemble Quire Cleveland. (Hear performances by Moyer on the C.B. Fisk Organ, Opus 116, in Oberlin's Finney Chapel.)

At the Church of the Covenant in Cleveland, Moyer oversees a music program consisting of a professional and amateur choir, children’s youth and handbell choirs, one of Cleveland’s largest pipe organs (E.M. Skinner/Aeolian Skinner/Holtkamp), the Newberry baroque organ (Richards Fowkes), and a 47-bell Dutch carillon.

In 2008, Moyer performed the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in four recitals at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, celebrating the centenary of the composer's birth and the renovation of the cathedral's organ. Also that year, he received second prize in the Sixth International Musashino Organ Competition in Tokyo, Japan. In 2005, he was one of four finalists in the St. Albans International Organ Competition. He has served on the executive committee of the Cleveland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.He has adjudicated for the American Guild of Organists Quimby Young Artist Competition and the National Organ Playing Competition in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

Moyer resides in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with his wife, organist Kaori Hongo, and sons Christopher Sho and Samuel Kazu.

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