Duke Chapel has announced the dates and artists for its 2008-2009 Organ Recital Series.
All performances are at 5 p.m. (with one additional, early performance Oct. 19) in Duke Chapel. Admission is free.
-- On Oct. 19, Robert Parkins, university organist and professor of the practice of music at Duke, opens this year's series with "Iberian Organ Music from the Golden Age." Presented in conjunction with the Nasher Museum of Art's exhibit "El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III," Parkins' program will feature images of paintings from the exhibit projected onto two screens. The recital will be performed on the Brombaugh organ in Duke Chapel's Memorial Chapel at 2:30 p.m. as well as 5 p.m.
-- Christopher Young, chair of the organ department at the Indiana University School of Music, will perform Nov. 16 on the Flentrop organ in the main Chapel nave. He has received critical acclaim for his performances and won first prize in the National Young Artist Competition of the American Guild of Organists in 1988.
-- On Jan. 25, David Arcus will perform on the Flentrop organ in the main Chapel nave. Arcus is the associate university organist, Chapel organist and Divinity School organist at Duke. He has won national awards in improvisation and composition, and several of his pieces have been published by Concordia Music, Hinshaw Music and Wayne Leupold Editions.
-- On March 1, Daniel Roth, titular organist at St. Sulpice church in Paris, will give a recital of French music and an improvisation on the Flentrop organ in the main Chapel nave. Roth has a reputation as being one of the leading French organ virtuosos. His program is dedicated to the memory of Fenner Douglass, former university organist at Duke and a respected scholar of French organs and organ literature.
-- Iain Quinn, a Welsh organist, will perform Charles Tournemire's "Seven Last Words of Christ," interspersed with the corresponding biblical narration. Quinn is the director of music at the Cathedral Church of St. John in Albuquerque, N.M. He will give his recital March 29 on the newly restored Aeolian organ in the main Chapel nave.