Westminster Organ Concert Series

Westminster Presbyterian Church
190 Rugby Road
Charlottesville, Virginia

Friday April 20, 2007 at 8:00 P. M.

Megan Sharp, Soprano
Jonathan Schakel, Organist


Program



Praeambulum in d (WV 34) Heinrich Scheidemann
(1595–1663)
From Kleine Geistliche Konzerte
   Ich will den Herren loben allezeit
   O Jesu, nomen dulce

 Heinrich Schütz
(1585–1672)
Toccata (Bux WV 155) Dietrich Buxtehude
(1637–1707)
Three Sacred Arias:
   Komm in mein Herzenshaus (BWV 80:4)
   Wer ein währer Christ will heißen
     (BWV 47:2)
   Höchster, mache deine Güte
     (BWV 51:3)

Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685–1750)
Organbook III: Volume II (1977–78)
   Underground stream
   Curio II (Trio)
   Basse de Trompette
   Jig for the Feet (Totentanz)
   Nocturne
   Finale – The Offering

 William Albright
(1944–1998)
Rock of Ages James Woodman
(b. 1957)

Confitebor tibi Ned Rorem
(b. 1923)

Variations sur un thème de Clément Janequin

 Jehan Alain
(1911–1940)

Ave Maria Jehan Alain
Laudate Dominum Claudio Monteverdi
(1567–1643)

The Artists


Megan Sharp has performed a wide variety of musical styles throughout New England and Germany. She has sung with the Boston Early Music Festival, the Connecticut Early Music Festival, Ensemble Chanterelle, the Schola Cantorum, Longwood Opera, and Granite State Opera. In opera, she has sung such diverse roles as Amor in Cavalli's L'Egisto and Baby Doe in The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore. Her oratorio credits include Mendelssohn's Elijah under the direction of Louis Lane, and the Mozart Mass in C Minor at Trinity Church in Boston. She holds a bachelor's degree in music from the College of Wooster in Ohio, and a master's degree in opera from the Boston Conservatory.

Jonathan Schakel is a native of Michigan, where he graduated from Hope College with degrees in history and music. He earned a master’s degree with distinction in organ from Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied organ, harpsichord and clavichord with Peter Sykes and continuo with Frances Conover Fitch. He has also studied with James David Christie and in the masterclasses of Olivier Latry, William Porter, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Siegbert Rampe, and James Higdon. He has given recitals on organ and harpsichord throughout the United States and in Germany. He and his wife, Megan Sharp, direct the music program at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville.
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The concert is free and open to the public. Ample parking is available behind the church, and the sanctuary is wheelchair–accessible. A reception for the artists will follow the concert. For more information, please call 434-963-4690 or visit www.avenue.org/organconcerts..

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