Evento

Clara Gerdes Bartz - Organ Concert

METHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL
CLARA GERDES BARTZ
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
ORGAN CONCERT

Wednesday, July 20th at 7:30 P.M.

Sponsored by Joyce Painter Rice and Rosalind Mohnsen

Works by McKie, Duruflé, Coleridge-Taylor, Reger, Litaize and Liszt

Clara Gerdes Bartz, from Davidson, North Carolina, USA, is a 2021 graduate of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music where she studies with Martin Jean. She recently graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Alan Morrison. She received first prizes in the Albert Schweitzer, AGO-Quimby Mid-Atlantic Regional and UNCSA School of the Arts organ competitions; was the recipient of the 2020 Baker Prize in Organ Performance and the 2021 Julia Sherman Award for Excellence in Organ Playing from Yale; and received the first annual AGO Pogorzelski-Yankee scholarship. She has performed around the United States, including at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York and Washington National Cathedral, the American Guild of Organists 2018 National Convention in Kansas City, and at Spoleto, Oregon Bach Festival, Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts and most recently the Uncommon Music Festival in Sitka, Alaska.Pre-Covid, Clara served as Assistant Organist at Saint Bartholomews Church, Park Avenue in New York City and was previously Organ Scholar at Saint Marks Church, Locust Street in Philadelphia. She now serves as Director of Music at Most Holy Redeemer and Nativity Parish in Manhattan, New York, where her responsibilities include building up the parish's music program and overseeing the restoration of its 1891 Roosevelt organ.