Faculty Artist Series: Daryl Robinson, Organ - Form & Expression: Music of Price, Laurin, Simonds, Vierne & Willan
Monday, October 21, 2024
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Come enjoy the another exciting recital in the Moores School of Music Faculty Artist Series! Professor of Organ, Daryl Robinson performs a solo recital on the largest pipe organ in Houston, the magnum opus of Canadian builder Orgues Létourneau, at The Church of St. John the Divine on River Oaks Blvd. The program, Form and Expression, is designed to showcase this heroic instrument through music by Florence Price, Rachel Laurin, Bruce Simonds, Louis Vierne, and Healey Willan.
Daryl Robinson has earned international acclaim from critics and audiences alike, being described as an artist with “… a driving muscular poetry underpinned by nimble technique and nuanced sense of style …” (Choir and Organ) and possessing “… flawless technique and rhythmic verve …” (The American Organist). Winner of both First Prize and Audience Prize in the 2012 American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Performance. Mr. Robinson currently serves as Associate Professor of Organ and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston and is represented by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc.
To learn more about Daryl Robinson and his accomplishments, please visit: www.darylrobinson.com
PROGRAM
Final
from
Symphony
No.
6,
Op.
59
Louis
Vierne
(1870-1937)
Prelude
on
Iam
sol
recedit
igneus
Bruce
Simonds
(1895-1989)
First
Sonata
for
Organ
Florence
Price
(1887-1953)
Three
Short
Studies,
Op.
68
Rachel
Laurin
(1961-2023)
Introduction,
Passacaglia,
and
Fugue,
B.
149
Healey
Willan
(1880-1968)
- Location
- St. John the Divine, 2450 River Oaks Blvd, Houston, TX 77019
- Cost
- Free
- Contact
- msmprog@central.uh.edu