Advent Organ Meditation: His Light in the Darkness
In person: $30 ($25 senior; student/ages 17 & under free) | Stream: $15
- SharonRose Pfeiffer, organ
Jean Langlais — "La Nativité" from Poèmes Évangéliques, Op. 2
Dietrich Buxtehude — Selected works
Johann Sebastian Bach — Organ Concerto in A minor, BWV 593
John Jacob Niles — Selected works (2 American folk carols TBA)
Reflect on His Light in the Darkness through an Advent organ meditation with works by Langlais, Buxtehude, and Dupré. The concert will be performed by Sharon Rose Pfeiffer, Artist-in-Residence, on the newly completed St. Cecilia organ at the Church of the Transfiguration, Rock Harbor, Orleans.
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About SharonRose Pfeiffer, organ
SharonRose Pfeiffer is one of the organists at the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, MA. Her performing career includes concerts throughout the U.S. and France, with highlights including the Washington National Cathedral, St. Thomas Church, New York City, La Basilique St. Sernin in Toulouse and the American Cathedral in Paris. She earned degrees from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey (summa cum laude), and from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she studied with the late Dr. David Craighead, and served as his teaching assistant.
Dr. Pfeiffer studied harpsichord under Mark Brombaugh and Arthur Haas, performing concerts with the Phoenix Chamber Orchestra, the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, and at the American Embassy in Paris.
The winner of a Fulbright grant, she studied in Toulouse under the late composer and organist Xavier Darasse. After a year of study, she was invited back by the French government to give a sponsored concert tour.
Dr. Pfeiffer has served as a church musician for over 45 years, with a particular interest in the development of children’s choirs. She served under the Bishop of Rochester as the Music Consultant for the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, and as Instructor of Organ and Harpischord at Nazareth College.
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