Performance to celebrate organ’s 40th anniversary in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church will acclaimed organist Douglas Cleveland at 3 p.m. Saturday for a performance in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the church’s Coulter organ.

Admission will be by a $15 donation.

Cleveland will perform Nicolaus Bruhns’ Praeludium in G Major, “Bergamasca” by Samuel Scheidt, J.S. Bach’s “Partita: Sei gegrusset Jesu gutig” and Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major and David Dahl’s “Suite Homage.”

Rose Alexander will join Cleveland for Antonio Soler’s Sixth Concerto for Organ and Harpsichord.

Cleveland was raised in Olympia and studied at the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University and Oxford University.

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He gained international prominence when he won first prize in the 1994 American Guild of Organists National Youth Artists Competition. Since then he has performed in 49 states and in such venues as Westminster Abbey, Berlin Cathedral, Stockholm Cathedral, Moscow Conservatory Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, Minato Mirai Concert Hall in Yokohama, Japan, Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore and the Cathedral of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Cleveland has served on the faculties of St. Olaf College and Northwestern University, where he received thr Searle Award for Teaching Excellence.

He is currently the John Delo Faculty Fellow in Organ at the University of Washington School of Music, and is also director of music and liturgical arts at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Medina.

St. Andrew’s selected artisan Kenneth Coulter to build the organ in 1976, a custom instrument made for the church to replace a 30-year-old Wurlitzer.

According to the church, the Coulter organ is of a classic design, meaning that tonal variety is determined by individual stops or voices and there is no unification or borrowing from other voices to synthesize a new sound. Several stops are designed specifically to provide a “singing” line against softer ones to enhance the melody in hymn singing and concert performance.

For information, contact the church at 360-457-4862.

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