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MSM Faculty Recital: Daryl Robinson, organ

Friday, April 16, 2021

7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Daryl Robinson, Assistant Professor of Organ, performs the music of UH faculty members Marcus Karl Maroney and David Ashley White along with works by Jeanne Demessieux, Thomas H. Kerr, Healey Willan, and others, on the 1938 Aeolian-Skinner organ at Christ Church Cathedral where Mr. Robinson serves as Cathedral Organist. This will be Mr. Robinson’s first faculty recital.

Program:
Te Deum (Jeanne Demessieux)
Trio Sonata (Marcus Karl Maroney)
Come, Pure Hearts: Introduction, Theme, and Variations (David Ashley White)
Suite No. 1 for Organ (1942) (Florence Price)
Introduction, Passacaglia, and Fugue (Healey Willan)

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Mr. Robinson earned both the First Prize and the Audience Prize in the 2012 American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Performance. Robinson has performed across the United States under the auspices of Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc., internationally throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, China, and South Korea. He has been a featured artist for recent national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists, including Boston (2014), St. Louis (2015), and Houston (2016), and the Organ Historical Society (2018). 

Multiple critically acclaimed solo and collaborative commercial discs featuring Mr. Robinson are available, including the first commercial solo recording of the organ at Walt Disney Concert, American Fantasia (Gothic Records, 2017), and Sempre Organo (ProOrgano Records, 2013). In March of 2021, Mr. Robinson will be recording a new CD featuring the organ music of David Ashley White for the Acis Productions Label.

Location
Christ Church Cathedral - 1117 Texas Ave, Houston, TX 77002
Cost
Free event; however, RSVP is required.

Register here starting April 1, 2021!
Contact
Daryl Robins
Email: darobins@central.uh.edu