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Festive sacred music performed by the Cathedral’s own musicians: organist Denis Bédard and the Cathedral Choir, assistant organist Catherine Walsh and the Holy Rosary Women’s Choir, the Contemporary Choir with director Chito Lacsina, and the Spanish Mass Choir with director Ricardo Chaparro-Pacheco.

Mark your calendars!  More details to follow soon.

Works by Bach, Pachelbel, Bedard and others (more details to follow).  Denis Bedard’s solo organ recital will be preceded (at 7::30 pm) by 15 minutes of a cappella works sung by the highly regarded St. Patrick’s High School Chamber Choir under the direction of Tony Araujo.

Denis Bédard has been organist and music director at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver since 2001. He has given recitals across Canada, in the United States, in France and in Brazil and pursues an international career as a composer. His compositions include chamber music, orchestral and vocal music and many organ works.  He has received commissions from Radio-Canada, the CBC, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the RCCO, the RSCM, Monaco Cathedral, and various professional ensembles and musicians in North America and Europe.  His works are performed throughout North America and Europe, as well as in Asia, South Africa, Australia and South America, and many have been recorded on CD.  His music, essentially tonal and melodic, is characterized by a concern for formal clarity and immediate communication with as vast a public as possible.

This recital follows a Reflections In Music service (7pm-745) so early arrivals are asked to enter discretely. Thank you.

Programme:
Trio Sonata in No. 6 in G Major, BWV 530 Johann Sebastian Bach  1685-1750
Vivace
Lento
Allegro
Prelude and Fugue in B Major, Op. 7, No. 1        Marcel Dupré    1886-1971

Symphony No. 5, Op. 42                        Charles Marie Widor    1844-1937
I.              Allegro vivace
II.             Allegro cantabile
III.           Andantino quasi allegretto
IV.           Adagio
V.            Toccata

Yeo Jung Kim, a native of Seoul, Korea, has given numerous solo recitals in the United States and Canada and Korea, including organ recitals at St. Mary Church (New York), the Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago), the Old West Church (Boston), Youngsan Art Hall (Seoul) and Hyehwa Catholic Church (Seoul). She has appeared as an accompanist and organist for various concerts, performed by the Korean National Chorus at the Orpheum Theater (Vancouver), the Korean Chamber Orchestra at Youngsan Art Hall (Seoul), the Oklahoma City Bach Society and Oklahoma All-Collegiate Choir (Oklahoma).Yeo Jung received both the Doctor of Music and Master of Music degrees in Organ Performance at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, where she studied with Professor Wolfgang Rübsam. She holds her bachelor of music degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her teachers in Vancouver include Mr. Darryl Nixon, Mr. Edward Norman and Ms. Barbara Halem-Price. She has held organist positions at Seoul Church (Seoul, Korea), McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church (Oklahoma, USA), and the First United Methodist Church (New York, USA).

Holy Rosary Cathedral Organist and Music Director Denis Bédard in concert.  Including Boëllmann’s famous Suite Gothique, and works by Bach, Bédard and others.  Bédard has given recitals across Canada, in the United States, in France and in Brazil and his works are performed throughout the world. Performance visible on a giant screen at the front of the Cathedral.

Friday October 24 @ 8 PM

Tickets available at the door, at the Cathedral Office (646 Richards) and by phone: 604 682 6774

Programme:

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 545 Anon (18^th century English): Two Voluntaries in A minor Jean Langlais: Eight Modal Pieces (Mode of E, Mode of D, Mode of G) Denis Bédard: Contemplation, Voluntary no. 3, Trois Pièces galantes Louis Marchand: Dialogue in C (Livre III) Georg Boehm: Variations on the chorale “Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig” Léon Boëllmann: Suite Gothique (op. 25)

Vancouver’s spookiest organ concert is back for the 8th year!  Check back soon for more details.

Trumpet and Organ music written for and commissioned by Susan Ohannesian

Toccata on “Sine Nomine” – Paul Ohannesian
Interlude on “Down Ampney” – Paul Ohannesian
Prelude on “Angelus Ad Virginem” – Paul Ohannesian
Toccata on “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” – Paul Ohannesian
Cantelina on “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” for trumpet and organ – Paul Ohannesian
Toccata on “Adeste Fideles” for trumpet and organ – Paul Ohannesian
Epiphany Suite on “How Brightly Shines the Morning Star” – Paul Ohannesian
Prelude – Meditation – Toccata
Chorale Prelude on “Ach bleib bei uns” – Stephen Smith
Chorale Prelude on “Mit freuden zart” – Stephen Smith
Pavane and Allegro giocoso for trumpet and organ – Denis Bédard
Prelude on “Heavenly Message” – Denis Bédard
Postlude on “Tell Out My Soul” – Denis Bédard
Dance Suite for Organ – Paul Ohannesian

Holy Rosary Cathedral’s own musicians: organist Denis Bédard and the Cathedral Choir, assistant organist Catherine Walsh and the Holy Rosary Women’s Choir, the Contemporary Choir with director Chito Lacsina, and the Spanish Mass Choir with director Ricardo Chaparro-Pacheco.  Entry by donation.

Presented by Quest University.

Csaba Király (1965) graduated at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest as performing artist in 1989 (organ), and in 1990 (piano). During his student years he won first prize in all national competitions organized for his age group. He was also the first prize winner at the International Piano Competition in Cagliari 1996 (Italy) and in New Orleans 1997  (USA). Since his student years he has given concerts regularly both as pianist and organist and his exceptional talents have made him a popular young artist. Beyond his recitals in Hungary, he has had concert engagements in nearly all European countries, winning great success in United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, China,Egypt and India. His repertoire covers a wide range from the Baroque to contemporary music. Besides performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt and Bartok, performing the latest modern compositions plays a prominent role in his concert programmes. A characteristic aspect of his repertoire is improvisation. He has obtained the basic knowledge of improvising from his music school teacher Maria Apagyi, as an active student of the Artistic Workshop in Komlo. He approaches music as a composer, which is proved by his numerous arrangements. He has made a significant number of organ transcriptions of orchestral and choral works, which he often plays not only in Hungary, but in countries from Western Europe to Japan, China, South Korea and the United States. Csaba Király is attracted towards great missions and challenges, which gives him free energy for his creative work. Several times he has performed Liszt’s and Bach’s complete organ works. Since 2001 he has been undertaking a huge series of 100 concerts, lasting some years, of the complete piano music of Liszt. His piano-organ CD of Liszt: B-A-C-H Prelude and Fugue, B-A-C-H Fantasia and Fugue, “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” Variations was awarded“Classic CD of the Year 2001” in Hungary (Gramofon-prize). In 2003 he has been awarded a Liszt Ferenc prize for his artistic activity. In 2005 he established the First Pécs International Piano Competition in memory of Liszt Ferenc, in which he was one of the jury members. In 2004 he has been elected as the Secretary-general, in 2013 as the president of the Liszt Ferenc Society. As a piano teacher he has taught several years at the Academy of Music in Budapest. Between 1997and 1998 he was a guest organ teacher at the Taegu-Hyosung University in South Korea. Since 2002 he has been the head of the Piano Department, currently he teaches as associate piano and organ professor in the Institute of Music of the Musical and Visual Art Faculty at the University of Pécs and from the year of 2014 he is the director of the Béla Bartók Memorial House in Budapest. 

Works ranging from J.S. Bach to the present, including Louis Vierne’s famous Carillon de Westminster and music by Denis Bedard, with a special emphasis on contemporary American composers.  One of the organ world’s brightest rising stars, Christian Lane earned first prize in four major American organ competitions before reaching his twenty-first birthday and performs regularly throughout the US and Europe.

“To win the competition requires musicality, coordination, dexterity, virtuosity and good programming…  The $25,000 first-prize winner, American Christian Lane, assistant university organist at Harvard, demonstrated exactly that, with a varied repertoire that made full use of the spectrum of possible sound.”  Montreal Gazette

“If Christian Lane is an example of the future of our instrument, not only will he bring new converts to it, but the panache, vitality and joy with which he plays may just show people how musical the instrument truly is capable of being!” Organ Canada magazine

Performance visible on a giant screen at the front of the Cathedral.

Tickets available at the door, at the Cathedral Office (646 Richards) and by phone: 604 682 6774