James David Christie has been internationally acclaimed as one of the finest organists of his generation. He has performed around the world with symphony orchestras and period instrument ensembles as well as in solo recitals. He was the 1979 First Prize winner of the Bruges (Belgium) International Organ Competition, the first American ever to win First Prize in this prestigious competition and the first person in the 18–year history of the competition to win both First Prize and Prize of the Audience.

Mr. Christie has served as organist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1978 and has performed and recorded with major symphony orchestras in Vienna, London, Stuttgart, Koblenz, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Baltimore, New York, Boston, and many other cities. He has performed in more than fifty tours in Europe, and has often performed in Canada, Asia, Australia and Iceland. He is Music Director of Ensemble Abendmusik, a period instrument orchestra and chorus, based in Boston, which specializes in sacred music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Mr. Christie was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from New England School of Law for his outstanding contributions to the musical life of Boston, and was recently awarded the New England Conservatory Outstanding Alumni Award. He holds positions as Distinguished Artist in Residence at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., and Professor of Organ at Oberlin (Ohio) College Conservatory of Music. He also serves as an adjunct member of the music faculty at Wellesley College. He previously held positions at Boston Conservatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University.

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. To receive e–mail notices from this Series, click here:

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