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Bach & the Romantics Wyatt Smith, Paul Fritts Baroque Organ

The Church of the Ascension
Seattle, WA

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Bach & the Romantics Wyatt Smith, Paul Fritts Baroque Organ

Enjoy virtuosic concerts, each exploring the connections between Johann Sebastian Bach and his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors, performed by young master organists on the magnificent Paul Fritts Baroque Organ in the Church of the Ascension, 2330 Viewmont Way, Seattle (Magnolia).

Watch the organist playing right in front of you! No sitting side-saddle or craning your neck to see the organist in a loft!!

THE PROGRAM

Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 Johann Sebastian Bach (16851750)

Five Chorale Preludes
Herzliebster Jesu, BWV 1093 Bach
Herzliebster Jesu, op. 122 no. 2 Johannes Brahms (183397)
Herzlich tut mich verlangen, op. 122 no. 10 Brahms
Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV 727 Bach
O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, BWV 656 Bach

Sonata No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 65 Felix Mendelssohn (180947)
I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante religioso
III. Allegretto
IV. Allegro maestoso e vivace

From the Seven Pieces for Organ, Op. 145 Max Reger (18731916)
No. 1. Trauerode
No. 2. Dankpsalm

THE ORGANIST

American concert organist Wyatt Smith hailed as playing with nuance, polish, and personality (Michael Barone, APM Pipedreams), maintains a very active concert schedule throughout the United States and England. Indeed, over the last seven years he has performed in twenty-eight states, most notably at St. Thomas Church (New York), St. Georges, Hanover Square (London), Kings Chapel and Trinity ChurchCopley Square (Boston), Yale University (New Haven), the National City Christian Church (Washington DC), the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Los Angeles), the Spreckels Organ PavilionBalboa Park (San Diego), the Community of Christ Auditorium and Temple (Independence), Overture Concert Hall (Madison), the U.S. Air Force Academy Protestant Cadet Chapel (Colorado Springs), St. Andrews Cathedral (Honolulu), and St. Mark Episcopal Cathedral (Seattle),

Wyatt appeared at the 2012 AGO National Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, as a Rising Star, having won the AGO/Quimby Regional Competition for Young OrganistsRegion VI in 2011 (see the attached YouTube video). His performances have been heard on several episodes of American Public Medias Pipedreams. His achievements in performance were recently recognized when he was named as a member of the "Class of 2016" by The Diapason's program "20-under-30", which recognizes young leaders in the fields of organ, harpsichord, carillon, and church music.

Wyatt has a passion for commissioning and performing new works for the organ. Over the last several years the composers who have written works for him include David Cherwien, Carson Cooman, Emma Lou Diemer, Kurt Knecht, Kristina Langlois, and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra.

Wyatt is currently a doctoral student at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studies organ performance with Carole Terry. He received his Master of Music degree from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the Yale School of Music, where he studied organ under Martin Jean. His Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance is from the University of South Dakota, where he was a student of Larry Schou.

Hear Wyatt perform Bach at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBaDy8gHbgs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVykEPMN5eY