Brass Ensemble Concert Fall 2019
Schroeder Hall in the Green Music Center
2:00 pm
Admission Fees:
$8.00 includes parking
Tickets:
Green Music Center Ticket office
The SSU Brass Ensemble celebrates its 13th season with music for brass and organ at 2 p.m. on November 3 in Schroeder Hall. Guest organist David Parsons will be featured in works by Schütz, Franck, Peeters and Pinkham, as well as solo pieces. Brian S. Wilson conducts.
PROGRAM
GUEST ORGANIST
David Parsons
David Parsons, a native of Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Princeton, Northwestern and Cambridge Universities. His organ teachers have included Carl Weinrich and Richard Enright. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies at St. Catharine’s College in the University of Cambridge, he taught organ at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. David served as Organist and Choirmaster of The Round Church, Cambridge (The Church of the Holy Sepulchre), established in AD 1116. From 1987 to 2004 he was Organist at the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, California, and from 1988 to 2005 he worked in San Jose at Adobe Systems Incorporated, where he was a member of the renowned type department, producing digital typefaces (fonts). He is a Deputy Organist at Stanford University’s Memorial Church, and Curator of Organs at Sonoma State University.