Organ Recital
The 2024 Cathedral Organ Recital Series welcomes first-rate organists to play Truro’s acclaimed Father Willis Organ. This week we welcome Käthe Wright Kaufman. This recital will be live-streamed on this page at 13:10 and our YouTube channel
Programme
Epilogue on "Veni Creator Spiritus" - Bruce Neswick (b. 1956)
Dalby's Fancy - Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Star Fantasy (Alleluia: vidimus stellam) - Kristina Arakelyan (b. 1994)
Andante Religioso - Alec Rowley (1892-1958)
from Symphonie No. 3 in F#-minor: - Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
III. Intermezzo
IV. Adagio
V. Final
Bio
Käthe Wright Kaufman is the associate director of music at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where she serves as principal keyboardist and accompanist for services, oversees maintenance of the 1982 Casavant Frères organ, and aids the director of music in shaping and supporting a vibrant worship and music program. She also serves the Candler School of Theology at Emory University as chapel organist. Previously, she was organ scholar at Peterborough Cathedral (2019-2020) and Truro Cathedral (2016-2017). A native of Chicago, Käthe was launched into church music from age eight as a chorister of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois. She began her organ studies a few years later with James Brown at the Music Institute of Chicago. For both undergraduate and graduate study, she attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she studied organ, harpsichord, and improvisation with William Porter and Edoardo Bellotti, as well as organ with David Higgs for her Master’s degree. Käthe has performed for the nationally-syndicated American radio program Pipedreams Live!, and she has performed in venues around America and the UK including St. Thomas Church, NYC; the cathedrals in Atlanta, Nashville, and San Francisco; Clare College Chapel, St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Peterborough Cathedral, and Truro Cathedral. She has received several awards, including Eastman’s Gerald Barnes Award for Excellence in Pipe Organ (2013), the inaugural VanDelinder Prizes in Liturgical Organ Skills at Christ Church, Rochester (2014 & 2015), and first place in the West Chester University International Organ Competition (2015). She was recently featured as a performer at the American Guild of Organists’ National Convention in Seattle, Washington (2022), at the Anglican Association of Musicians’ National Convention in Dallas, Texas (2023), and earlier this summer at the Reuter Organ Festival at the cathedral in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Käthe is an Associate of the American Guild of Organists and a published composer with Selah Publishing Company.
Live-stream
The series runs from March to October and each recital lasts around 45 minutes. There is no charge to attend or listen to these concerts. We rely on your support to help with the cost of maintaining the cathedral’s famous Father Willis Organ. Keeping the cathedral’s musical instruments in first-rate condition enables us to put on such recitals.
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