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FREE Organ
Concert!
Free Farmers’ Market Organ Concert: Andrew Schaeffer
Venue: Overture Hall
Saturday, July 23, 2022
11:00 a.m.
FREE and open to the public of all ages!
Step into the cool expanse of Overture Hall on select summer Saturdays during the Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Capitol Square to enjoy the gift of beautiful music with the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s Overture Concert Organ. Bring your family and friends for a relaxing 45-minute free concert. No tickets or reservations are needed and all ages are welcome! Discover more about our Free Farmers’ Market Organ Concert Series.
Please take note: Masks are encouraged, but optional, for this performance in Overture Hall.
Program
Calvin Hampton, Fanfares
Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue in C Major (BWV 547)
Herbert Howells , Master Tallis’s Testament
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , Balletto del granduca
Henry Mulet, Esquisses Byzantines
Meet Andrew Schaeffer
A Chicago native, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer serves as the full-time Director of Music and Organist at Luther Memorial Church in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. He holds a Bachelor of Church Music degree from St. Olaf College, a Master of Music degree from Yale University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma. His dissertation and current research focus is on the role of the pipe organ in American Freemasonry during the first half of the twentieth century.
In addition to his position at Luther Memorial, Andrew serves as the Editor-at-Large of The Diapason, one of the oldest and largest American journals devoted to organ, harpsichord, and church music. He is also Instructor of Organ at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin.
Andrew is active in the American Guild of Organists, having served as Dean of the Oklahoma City chapter and currently serving a term as Dean of the Madison, WI chapter.
He is married to Jenny, a registered nurse, and together they have one son, Walter
Free Farmers’ Market Organ Concerts are presented by the Madison Symphony Orchestra and Overture Center for the Arts, in partnership with Madison Media Partners.
Support for all Overture Concert Organ programs is provided by the Diane Endres Ballweg Fund.
James Ehnes has established himself as one of the most sought-after violinists on the international stage. Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity, serene lyricism and an unfaltering musicality, Ehnes is a favourite guest of many of the world’s most respected conductors including Ashkenazy, Alsop, Sir Andrew Davis, Denève, Elder, Ivan Fischer, Gardner, Paavo Järvi, Mena, Noseda, Robertson and Runnicles. Ehnes’s long list of orchestras includes, amongst others, the Boston, Chicago, London, NHK and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, the Los Angeles, New York, Munich and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Philharmonia and DSO Berlin orchestras.
Recent orchestral highlights include the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Noseda, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig with Shelley, San Francisco Symphony with Janowski, Frankfurt Radio Symphony with Orozco-Estrada, London Symphony with Harding, and Munich Philharmonic with van Zweden, as well as his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Lincoln Center in spring 2019. In 2019/20, Ehnes was Artist in Residence with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, which included performances of the Elgar Concerto with Luisi, a play/direct programme leg by Ehnes, and a chamber music programme. In 2017, Ehnes premiered the Aaron-Jay Kernis Violin Concerto with the Toronto, Seattle and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, and gave further performances of the piece with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Ehnes began violin studies at the age of five, became a protégé of the noted Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin aged nine, and made his orchestra debut with L’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal aged 13. He continued his studies with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School of Music and The Juilliard School, winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music upon his graduation in 1997. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2010 was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. Ehnes was awarded the 2017 Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Instrumentalist category.
James Ehnes plays the “Marsick” Stradivarius of 1715.