Join us for a concert of contemporary music for organ, with American Composers Alliance composer-organist Brian Schober, at Church of the Heavenly Rest, in New York City. The organ at Heavenly Rest is one of the largest in NYC. It contains five manuals, 137-ranks and over 8,000 pipes and was built by Austin Organs. The concert will take place Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, at 4 pm, at The Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City - E. 90th and 5th Ave. The concert will be free, with no tickets required. Music from the past 70 years will be explored. Most of the performed composers will be in attendance.
Miriam Gideon - Three Biblical Masks
Andrew Ardizzoia - Chorale Variations*
John Anthony Lennon - Misericordia*
Richard Brooks - Aaron's Jubilee
Steven Sacco - Elegy
Thomas L. Read - Variations on St. Elizabeth*
Nancy Van De Vate - Prelude
Joseph Dangerfield - Micro Suite*
Jody Rockmaker - The Wide Night Sky*
Brian Schober - Toccatas and Fantasias
* New York Premiere
Award presented by Henry Threadgill
Ilaria Loisa Hawley
Quando L'acqua riflette (When the Water Reflects)
Performed by Face The Music
Isabella Caurucci, flute
Yusei Hata, melodica
Oriana Hawley, viola
John Waller, triangle
Vasudevan Panicker, coach
Born in 2009, Ilaria Loisa Hawley is the recipient of a 2019 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the inaugural recipient of Claire Chase's Pnea Foundation Young Flutist Award. Ilaria's music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic and Face the Music, and she is a composition student of Mathew Fuerst and a flute student of Zara Lawler. She attends PS 314 Muscota New School and enjoys drawing, drama, reading, rock climbing, and making earrings.