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STANISLAUS CHAPTER |
| Last updated: February 22, 2010 |
Message from the Dean |
| Dear Visitor,
On behalf of the American Guild of Organists, Stanislaus Chapter, I want to welcome you to our web site. The American Guild of Organists is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the organ and encouraging excellence in the performance of both choral and organ music. The Stanislaus Chapter has been an active leader in the arts community through our many and varied events. We hold regular recitals featuring professional musicians from the community as well as the next generation of organists who are studying and learning the instrument. We have been privileged to host these events in conjunction with the MJC Organ Department, which has been training organists for decades. We also sponsor special concerts featuring outstanding world class artists, such as Everhard Zwart (Netherlands), and most recently David Dahl (professor emertus Pacific Lutheran University). The organ crawl is another favorite event. On an organ crawl we visit and play selected instruments from the fine selection that California has to offer. Furthermore, we hold workshops such as the Pedals, Pizza, and Pipes, designed to reveal more about the wonderful world of the pipe organ. If you would like to learn more about the guild, or would like more information about an upcoming event, please don't hesitate to contact us. Sincerely, Barbara Vukich Dean, Stanislaus Chapter AGO |
Local Events |
| March 6 Organ Crawl:
8 a.m. Leave from parking lot at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Modesto. We will form carpools. 9 a.m. St. John's Episcopal, Lodi, 1055 S. Lower Sacramento Road. (North of E. Kettleman; just south of W. Vine) St. John’s has a newly installed Felgemaker tracker organ and its stops work well with early English and American music. 11:15 St. John's Lutheran, 1701 L. Street, Sacramento (2 blocks e. of Capitol Park) 12:30 p.m. Lunch 1:30 St. Paul's Episcopal, 1430 J. Street (at 15th--walking distance from St. John's) 3:00 All Saints Episcopal, 2076 Sutterville Rd. (east of river, off I-5, near SCC) Bring: a variety of organ music, organ shoes, sufficient $ to pay for your lunch, and maybe a little gas for the drivers. Optional: cell phone, Sacramento map, camera, recorder Make the whole day about organ music! 7 p.m. Ennio Cominetti - in Concert at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Patterson. 650 West Las Palmas Ave. Free Admission Mr. Cominetti is presenting this recital as part of his North American Tour. He will be performing the always thrilling "Piece d'Orgue" by J.S. Bach, the "Suite Gothique" by Leon Boellmann and works by Francois Couperin and several works by Marco Enrico Bossi. Other stops on Mr. Cominetti's tour include Harvard University, St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Mark's, both in San Francisco. He has performed at many prestigious venues such as St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Notre Dame in Paris, the Warsaw Cathedral, the Christian Protestant Church in Jerusalem and the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gedektniskirche. He has also recorded CDs, videos and authored articles for Italian and European musician magazines. He is the artisitic director of EurArte publishing house. To learn more about Ennio Cominetti, visit his web page at www.enniocominetti.com March is also the month for the student scholarship audition for which we have one person who applied. We also have available study grants for intermediate piano or organ students of any age who would like additional study. If you know of anyone, please have them contact Barbara. |
Newsletter |
| Meet our newest member: Ekaterina"Katya" Gotsdiner, born in Toula, Russia, holds a degree in music theory from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Academic Music College, graduate degrees in musicology and organ from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and a Master of Music degree in church music with organ emphasis from the University of Kansas. Her teachers included Oleg Yanchenko and Alexey Semyonov in Russia, and Michael Bauer in the United States. She has participated in master classes with Ludger Lomann, Jos van der Kooj, Olivier Latry and James Higdon. Katya won prizes at the First Kikta International Organ Competition (2005), the First Beedlaw Moscow Festival of the Young Artists (2007), the Fifth International Organ Music Festival-Competition “Gatchina-St. Petersburg” (2004), the Sixth International Organ Competition Marcello Galanti (2005 - Italy), and the First All Russian Festival-Competition for Young Organists “Soli Deo Gloria” (2007). She has performed at concert halls and churches in Moscow and throughout Russia, as well as in Austria, Italy, The Netherlands and the United States. She has been featured on Russian state radio and television, including a performance with the Russian National Symphony Orchestra, and has performed and lectured about Russian organ music at the University of California Los Angeles, the University of Kansas, and in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In addition, she taught music theory at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Academic Music College (2001-2008). While in Kansas, Katya held the position of organist at St. Ann’s Catholic Church (Prairie Village, KS.) Currently she serves as organist at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Turlock, CA.
Welcome, Katya! We are pleased to have you join us! |
Membership |
| For information on how to join our chapter - contact:
Joan Peck, Secretary email: joanpeck@att.net |
Placement |
| Employers and job seekers are invited to post and search listings of available positions on the Guild's National Website. |
Certification |
Contact Us |
| Dean: Barbara Vukich - bvukich@comcast.net
Sub Dean: Dennis Jensen - djnmodsto@yahoo.com Secretary: Joan Peck - joanpeck@att.net Treasurer/Registrar: Linda Roaks - linronroaks@att.net |
Links |
| Visit the AGO National website |