February 14, 2027 | 8:00 pm
Carolyn Craig

Award-winning American organist Carolyn Craig, MMA FRCO, is Assistant Director of Music at Wells Cathedral in Somerset, England and a Teacher of Organ at Wells Cathedral School, a specialist music school. Originally from Knoxville, TN, Carolyn earned her undergraduate degree at Indiana University (BM in Organ Performance, minors in Conducting and German) and her graduate degrees at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music (Master of Music in Organ; Master of Musical Arts in Organ).

She studied organ with John Brock, Christopher Young, Jon Laukvik, and Martin Jean in the US, Ulrich Walther and Johannes Ebenbauer in Austria, and in the UK held organ scholarships at Truro Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey. Her work has been featured on BBC Radio 3, on the American radio program Pipedreams, and in concert throughout the US, UK, and mainland Europe. Carolyn contributes to the inclusive church music planning resource at greathostcomposers.org and is co-founder of amplifyfemalecomposers.org
All of our recitals and concerts are FREE and open to the public – No tickets or passes are required. Seating is first-come first-served starting at 7:15 PM.  Two seats will be reserved at each Eccles Organ Festival concert for all Friends in the Benefactor and Patron tiers, and four seats will be reserved for all Friends in the Ambassador and Founder tiers, until 7:45 PM.
Program

Florence Price (1887-1953)
Finale from Organ Sonata in D                                  

Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951)
First Flight                                                          

Kerensa Briggs (b. 1991)
Light in darkness
 
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Naïades from Pièces de Fantaisie, op. 55 no. 4                  

Udi Perlman (b. 1990)
Big Fish Eat Little Fish
 
Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968)
Attende Domine from Twelve Chorale Paraphrases on Gregorian Chant Themes, op. 8 no. 3                                                                 
 
Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Symphonie-Passion, Op. 23
         I. Le monde dans l’attente du Saveur
         II. Nativité
         III. Crucifixion
         IV. Résurrection
Program Notes