The King of Instruments Winter Organ Series: Jason Roberts

• Jason Roberts, organ

Organist Jason Roberts, Director of Music at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in New York City, performs on Riverside's famed Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ as part of the annual King of Instruments Winter Organ Series. Mr. Roberts will accompany the 1925 silent comedy film The Gold Rush, starring Charlie Chaplin.

About the Film: Written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, the The Gold Rush represents the apotheosis of the silent film era. Shoelaces become spaghetti and dinner rolls become dance shoes in this classic 1925 silent comedy, which chronicles the hilarious adventure of a young prospector who heads to the Klondike to join the 1890s gold rush. A delightful blend of adventure, romance, and slapstick comedy, The Gold Rush encapsulates the height of Chaplin's creative strengths and popularity as filmmaker and star.

This concert will be preceded by a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon recital at 6:30pm.

This concert will also be livestreamed on our YouTube channel, free of charge.

About The King of Instruments Organ Series

https://www.trcnyc.org/organseries/

About Jason Roberts, organ

Organist Jason Roberts was appointed Director of Music Ministries at Blessed Sacrament in January 2019. He previously served as Associate Director of Music at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, and at St. James's Episcopal Church in West Hartford, Connecticut. Jason keeps an active recital schedule, and has been a recitalist for national conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Anglican Musicians. He is a graduate of Rice University, Yale University, and the Manhattan School of Music; and has won awards for improvisation at the St Albans International Organ Festival and the Harlem International Organ Competition. He is a winner of the AGO National Competition in Organ Improvisation. Jason is on the faculty at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.