Organ Extravaganza - Sunday, May 20 at 2 pm

Organ Extravaganza, featuring Hannah Brewer, Joe O’Donnell, Matt Smith, and Rob Stoltz, will be our final performance in the Friends of Music 2011-2012 season.  Join us Sunday May 20 at 2 pm. Refreshments follow the concert. $10 Suggested donation.

Prelude and Fugue in a minor - J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Praeludium in C - Georg Böhm (1661-1733)

Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele-J.S. Bach

Variations on Unter den Linden grüne - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelink (1562-1621)

Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria - Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Arietta - Horatio Parker (1863-1919)

Pastorale - George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931)

Choral - Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)

Chaconne in g minor - Louis Couperin (1626-1661)

Choral Prelude on Rockingham - Gwilym Beechey (b. 1938)

Hymn Concertato on Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Hannah Brewer is an organist, pianist, harpsichordist, and accompanist. She has a Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance from Oberlin Conservatory and a Master of Music degree from Pittsburg State University. She has studied organ with James David Christie and Cherry Rhodes, piano with Lydia Frumkin and Edward Francis, and harpsichord with Webb Wiggins and Susan Marchant. She also has degrees in art history with an MA thesis titled Portatives, Positives, and their Players: Depictions of Organs in Early Netherlandish Panel Painting, c. 1465-1509. A new transplant to the Portland area, Hannah is Organist at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church.

Joe O’Donnell is organist at Portland's First Unitarian Church and plays at St. Stephen's for Journey/Koinonia Catholic Community. He is also a pipe organ technician and design engineer on the staff of Bond Organ Builders, Inc. He is a former resident of Washington, DC, where, in addition to earning degrees in organ and liturgical music from the Catholic University of America, he had the care of numerous Gress-Miles organs.

Matthew Smith is Music Director at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.  He previously held positions at St Timothy Lutheran in Portland, and St John's Lutheran in San Francisco, California. He is a founding member of the vocal sextet Gaude and served on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Lutheran Chorale and San Francisco City Chorus. He studied organ with Charles Rus.

Rob Stoltz is an organist and hymnologist in Portland, Oregon. He has served at various Episcopal and Roman Catholic parishes, and studied with the late Sr. Myrtle Edmondson at Marylhurst University. He is the Parish Administrator at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Gresham.