A celebration of Bach and Mendelssohn on organ and a performance by a world renowned choir are are on tap this weekend at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood.
In honor of the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach this month and the 200th birthday of Felix Mendelssohn this year, Trinity’s “Artists at the Organ” series presents the return of Peter Sykes performing on the church’s Pasi organ March 29.
Regarded as one of the leading organ keyboard artists of today, Sykes is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Historical Performance Department at Boston University, Director of Music at First Church Congregational in Cambridge, Mass., and a member of the faculties of the Longy School of Music and the New England Conservatory.
He has served as adjudicator for competitions sponsored by the American Guild of Organists, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and the Bach International Harpsichord Festival, is a member of the board of the Cambridge Society for Early Music, and is a founding board member and current president of the Boston Clavichord Society. Sykes has also appeared in recital at conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society, the Organ Historical Society, American Institute of Organbuilders, International Society of Organbuilders, and at the Library of Congress. He performs regularly at Music Festivals though out the northeast including the Boston Early Music Festival, New England Bach Festival, and with The King’s Noyse, Musica Antigua KbIn, and throughout the United States, and appears regularly in concert and on recordings with Boston Baroque.
Sykes last appeared in this concert series to great critical acclaim in 1999, which highlights the church’s 2 manual, 30 stop mechanical action organ built by Martin Pasi.
The following night, March 30, Trinity host the only Seattle-area appearance of the renowned Worcester Cathedral Choir,
From Worcester, England the choir is comprised of 16 boys and 12 men and is directed by Adrian Lucas, Master of the Choristers. The choir will present a program of sacred music covering the Easter season, including “Miserere of Allegri” sung by the boys, as well as choral music gems by Haydn, Byrd, Poulenc, Bach, Gibbons and Stanford.
The Worcester Cathedral Choir’s history goes back more than 800 years. The choir has one of the largest repertoires of all English cathedral choirs and they were the first cathedral choir to tour South Africa after the end of apartheid. This is their fifth tour to the United States.
Organist Chris Allsop will perform selections by Bach on the Martin Pasi tracker pipe organ.
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