Music at St. James Cathedral: Cathedral Guitarist Mark Hilliard Wilson – Musical Diaries
$18 suggested donation
Mark Hilliard Wilson — Selected works
Johann Sebastian Bach — Selected works
Join Cathedral Guitarist Mark Hilliard Wilson in a concert of musical diaries: music collected and played during the travels of J. S. Bach and from Mark's own journey to Catalonia, Spain in 2017. Featuring a lute suite co-written by Bach and the greatest lutenist of the Baroque, Sylvius Leopold Weiss; as well as music by Wilson inspired by the medieval streets and old castle walls of Girona, evoking the characters of donkeys, bullfrogs, and a puppy.
This concert will be held in the Cathedral Chapel following the first Friday Taizé service.
Suggested donation: $18.00
Passes are available in advance at www.stjames-cathedral.org/music/concerts/Wilson2018 or donate at the door.
For more information, contact the St. James Cathedral Music Office at (206) 382-4874 or musicoffice@stjames-cathedral.org.
About Mark Hilliard Wilson
Mark Hilliard Wilson is an active performer, teacher, and director of the Seattle Guitar Orchestra, which he founded in 1999. As cathedral guitarist at Seattle's St. James Cathedral, he has performed there weekly since 2006. Wilson has written or arranged more than 200 works, and avidly explores new venues for the performance of classical music while addressing contemporary issues through concert programming. Music has always been everything to Wilson, from the barrel organs he heard in his childhood in Holland to the symphony orchestras in Washington, DC and country bands in Weiser, Idaho. He continues to study and embrace the wonder of new places and the creativity of the wonderful artists of every stripe in the world.
https://markhilliardwilson.com/