Great Organ Music at Yale: Martin Jean

Event time: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Woolsey Hall (WOOL) See map
500 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

All are welcome to join us for a concert of organ music by Martin Jean performed on Yale’s Newberry Organ. The concert is part of the Great Organ Music at Yale series. Martin Jean is a professor of organ and the director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Repertoire:

Charles-Marie Widor: Organ Symphony No.9 ‘Gothique’, Op.70
Marcel Dupré: Symphonie-Passion, Op.23

Free and open to the public.

Artist bio:

Professor Martin Jean has performed widely throughout the United States and Europe and is known for his broad repertorial interests. He was awarded first place at the international Grand Prix de Chartres in 1986, and in 1992 at the National Young Artists’ Competition in Organ Performance. A student of Robert Glasgow, in the fall of 1999 he spent a sabbatical with Harald Vogel in North Germany. He has performed on four continents and in nearly all fifty states. In 2001 he presented a cycle of the complete organ works of Bach at Yale, and his compact discs of The Seven Last Words of Christ by Charles Tournemire and the complete Six Symphonies of Louis Vierne, both recorded in Woolsey Hall, have been released by Loft Recordings. Recordings of the organ symphonies and Stations of the Cross of Marcel Dupré are forthcoming on the Delos label. Professor Jean is on the board of directors of Lutheran Music Program.

Open to: 
General Public