Organ Dedication Recital
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, Tennessee
Sunday, May 2, 1999, 7:30 p.m.
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Praeludium in e |
Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697) | |
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"Vater unser in Himmelreich" |
Georg Böhm (1661-1733) | |
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Concerto del Sgr Tomaso Albinoni |
Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748) | |
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Allegro |
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Adagio |
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Allegro |
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Sonata in A, op. 65, no. 3 |
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) | |
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Con moto maestoso |
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Andante tranquillo |
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Partita on "Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele" |
Böhm | |
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"Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" (BWV 731) |
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) | |
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"Valet will ich dir geben" (BWV 736) |
J.S. Bach | |
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Fantasy and Fugue in g (BWV 542) |
J.S. Bach | |
Robert Clark is widely known as an organ recitalist and teacher. Formerly Professor of Organ at the University of Michigan, he directed the program of organ instruction at Arizona State University from 1981 until his retirement in 1998.
In 1982, Clark served on the international jury for the Grand Prix de Chartres. He has performed as a concert organist throughout the United States and is a frequent presenter at conventions. He is co-editor, with John David Peterson, of the Concordia edition of the Bach Orgelbüchlein. His students have won or placed in major competitions including Fort Wayne, St. Alban's, Flint, and regional competitions of the American Guild of Organists. In 1990 he was a featured teacher at the National Pedagogy Conference of the American Guild of Organists in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is organist of the Pinnacle Presyterian Church in Scottsdale, Arizona.
In January 1992, Clark, in cooperation with the Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies and the American Organ Academy, was instrumental in directing a symposium, "The Historical Organ in America," at Arizona State University. Registrants and presenters included 350 organists, organbuilders, and scholars from North America, Japan, and Europe. He serves on the Board of Directors of the American Organ Academy.
Clark serves frequently as organ consultant for churches. In Mesa, Arizona, he served as consultant for Victory Lutheran Church, which has one of the largest tracker action organs in the Southwest. During various study trips to Europe, he has played and examined more than fifty historic organs from as early as the fifteenth century through the eighteenth century.
Clark's interests and performing repertory cover some six centuries of organ music. Of special interest for him are the music and performance practice of organ music of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Germany and France. He has also performed and premiered a number of important contemporary compositions for the organ.
Clark has recorded on the Gryphone and Calcante labels. Two of his recent CDs for Calcante were nominated as Critics' Choices for 1998 by the American Record Guide.