Event

Carolyn Craig - Organ Concert

METHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL
CAROLYN CRAIG
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
ORGAN CONCERT

Wednesday, July 13th at 7:30 P.M.

In Memory of Kenneth T. Morse

Works by Hakim, Demessieux, Howells, Burge, Perlman and Duruflé

Carolyn Craig, of Knoxville, Tennessee, recently finished her Master of Musical Arts in Organ Performance at Yale University. She also holds an MM in Organ Performance from Yale and a BM in Organ Performance, with minors in Conducting and German, from Indiana University, with highest honors. In 2018/2019, she was Organ Scholar of Truro Cathedral in the UK. Her teachers include Martin Jean, Jon Laukvik, Chris Young, and John Brock (organ), and David Hill, Maggie Brooks, and Dominick DiOrio (conducting).

Carolyn made her Carnegie Hall debut as a pianist at age 14, and her AGO National debut in Boston in 2014, as an RCYO winner. Recent awards include the Mary Baker Award in Organ Accompaniment, Yale University; the Audience Prize in the 2020 Arthur Poister Scholarship Competition in Organ Playing; and the 2nd Prize and the Special Prize for the Interpretation of Mikael Tariverdievs Works in the 2021 Tariverdiev International Organ Competition, held in Kaliningrad, Russia.

Carolyn has been heard in solo recitals at St. Pauls, Winchester, Wells, and Truro cathedrals, in Lund, Västerås and Kalmar Cathedrals World-leading organists from all corners of the earth, virtual series, and in venues throughout the US and Europe. Carolyn has also been featured on Pipedreams and at national conventions of the American Guild of Organists as a performer, improviser, and co-founder of amplifyfemalecomposers.org.