North Shore American Guild of Organists Young Artist Recital
The Simple Gifts Concert Series of the Glenview Community Church welcomes The North Shore Chapter of the American Guild of Organists for its Young Artist Recital at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 28th, in our sanctuary. The concert will feature Jonathan Rudy, 2014 first prize winner at the Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance in Boston; Adam Gruber, 2018 Master's degree graduate from Indiana University and the Interim Music Director and Organist at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Des Plaines; and Madeleine Woodworth, 2018 graduate of the Eastman School of Music and winner of the 2017 VanDelinder Rochester Area Community Foundation prize in Liturgical Organ Skills. Pieces by Buxtehude, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Eben, Guillou, Hampton and Decker will be featured A free will donation benefits the Northfield Township Food Pantry.
A native of Batavia, Illinois, Jonathan D. Rudy is recognized by colleagues and audiences for excellence as a performer, church musician, improviser, educator, and conductor. He won First Prize and the Audience Prize at the American Guild of Organists 2014 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance, the Guild's premiere young organist competition. He was also a finalist in the National Organ Playing Competition in Fort Wayne, as well as the Second Prize Winner of the Regional Competition for Young Organists (Quimby Competition) in 2011. In 2016 he performed at the 2016 AGO National Convention in Houston TX. Mr. Rudy received his master's degree in Organ and Sacred Music at Indiana University and completed his undergraduate degree in organ at Valparaiso University. While at Valparaiso, he received the Reidenbach Award in Church Music.
Adam Gruber is a native of nearby Arlington Heights, and has always had a love of music. He began taking piano lessons at just eight years old. Organ lessons followed two years later, and while in middle school, his lessons expanded further to include composition and choral conducting. He earned a bachelor's degree in Organ Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and just this past May graduated from Indiana University with a master's degree, also in Organ Performance. Mr. Gruber serves as the Interim Music Director and Organist for St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Des Plaines.
Madeleine Woodworth received her bachelor's degree in Music from the Eastman School of Music in 2018 and is pursuing her master's degree in Choral Conducting from Yale, to be completed in 2020. She was a VanDelinder Fellow at Christ Church in Rochester from 2016-2017 and currently serves as the Minister of Music at Trinity Lutheran Church in Milford, Connecticut. A native of Oak Park, she attended the Chicago Academy of the Arts. Ms. Woodworth won first place at the Great Lakes Region American Guild of Organists Convention in July of 2015.
The American Guild of Organists (AGO) was founded in 1896 and is the national professional association for the organ and choral music fields. The Guild serves approximately 20,000 members and has more than 300 chapters nationwide and abroad. The North Shore AGO draws its members from the area north of Chicago to the Wisconsin border. Its members hold positions at churches, colleges and music schools. They teach privately and perform across the nation. For more information visit www.northshoreago.org.
The pipe organ at the Glenview Community Church was built by John-Paul Buzard pipe organ builders, Champaign, IL, and was completed in 1999. It has 3865 pipes, 49 straight-speaking stops, 69 ranks across three manuals and pedal. John-Paul Buzard describes it as "grand and heroic". Improvements to the acoustics in the sanctuary since the year 2000 show off the instrument's color and versatility. An electronic Harp/Celeste stop was added in 2013. For more information on the organ visit http://www.gccmusic.org/BuzardOrgan.html.
Glenview Community Church is located at 1000 Elm Street (at Glenview Road). The building is handicap accessible and has free onsite parking. It is 3 blocks west of the Glenview Metra North train station.
Visit www.gccmusic.org or call 847-724-2210 for further details.