Edward Elwyn Jones is the Gund University Organist and Choirmaster at Harvard University, a post he has held since 2003. Mr. Jones directs the music program in the Memorial Church in the midst of Harvard Yard and leads the 180-year old Harvard University Choir in its daily choral services, broadcasts, tours, commissions, and recordings. Mr. Jones is also the Interim Director of Chapel Music at Harvard Divinity School, Music Director of the Harvard Radcliffe Chorus, the Lowell House Opera (New England’s longest-running opera company), and is a frequent collaborator with Yale\u2019s Schola Cantorum. As a conductor, he has guested with such organizations as Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Grand Harmonie, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Boston Camerata, Emmanuel Music (Boston), Longwood Symphony Orchestra, and the
\nHandel and Haydn Society Orchestra. He has led opera productions with Iceland\u2019s Reykjavik Summer Opera Festival, New England\u2019s Intermezzo Opera, Lowell House Opera, and the Harvard Early Music Society. Mr. Jones has worked alongside William Christie, Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas McGegan, and Gil Rose, and has served as continuo player and Assistant Conductor to Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists.
\nDuring his time at Harvard, Mr. Jones has overseen the publication of a new university hymnal, the installation of two new pipe organs in the Memorial Church, and has commissioned works from some of America\u2019s most prominent contemporary composers, including Daniel Pinkham, Alice Parker, and David Conte. A native of Wales, Mr. Jones studied music at Cambridge University, where he was Organ Scholar of Emmanuel College, and served as conductor of three university orchestras. He received his Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting from Mannes College of Music in New York City, where he was the recipient of the Felix Salzer Memorial Award.<\/p>\n
Thomas Sheehan is the Associate University Organist and Choirmaster in the Memorial Church and accompanist and teaching fellow for the Harvard Glee Club. Prior to these positions, he served on the music staff of Saint Mark\u2019s Church in Philadelphia and Trinity Episcopal Church in Princeton, New Jersey. Tom is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he received diplomas in organ and harpsichord, studying with Alan Morrison and Leon Schelhase. He received both the Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, as a student of Ken Cowan. He has also studied improvisation with Matthew Glandorf, Ford Lallerstedt, and Bruce Neswick.
\nIn 2016 he was named one of The Diapason\u2019s \u201c20 under 30,\u201d a list of rising artists in the field of organ playing. In 2009 he was awarded first prize in both the Arthur Poister National Competition in Organ Playing and the AGO\/Quimby Regional Competition for the Mid-Atlantic Region (Region III). In July 2010 Tom was a performer at the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in Washington, DC. He has performed as an organist throughout the United States and in Europe.<\/p>\n
Program:
\nWeir: My Guardian Angel
\nDeBlasio: Psalm 63
\nStanford: Beati Quorum Via
\nByrd: Praise Our Lord, All Ye Gentiles
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\nOrgan solo \u2013 Bach: Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam, BWV 684
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\nBach: Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226
\nStucky: Speak, Lord
\nParry: There Is an Old Belief
\nPaulus: Pilgrims’ Hymn
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\nINTERVAL
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\nElgar: Great Is the Lord
\nWhitbourn: Pure River of Water of Life
\nCooman: Verbum supernum prodiens
\nSigurbj\u00f6rnsson: Heyr, himna smi\u00f0ur
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\nOrgan solo \u2013 Micheelsen: Toccata \u00fcber Es sungen drei Engel
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\nLassus: Omnes de Saba
\nR\u00fctti: A Patre Unigenitus
\nJones: Suo-gan
\nBean: Simple Gifts<\/p>\n
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