Luray Singing Tower Concert
George Matthew, guest carillonneur, presents an afternoon of music spanning from favorite hymns to Haydn, Beethoven and Verdi.
George Matthew, Jr. has been carillonneur of Middlebury College and Norwich University in Vermont since 1986. A church organist since the age of 13, he is currently organist at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church of Middlebury, Vermont.
Mr. Matthew has made 36 carillon concert tours of the USA and 13 of Europe, performing in Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Russia. In August 2005, he played two carillon concerts on the new carillon of St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Matthew is the first American to play carillon in Russia.
He has played organ recitals in the New York and New England area, as well as in Germany and the Netherlands. In recent years, he has made a study of Russian organ music and has played a number of recitals of entirely Russian music on the organ. In July of 2012 he played the 12th such program for the Summer Russian School of Middlebury College. He has also presented Russian organ programs at Christ Church Methodist, Rochester, MN. In June 2004, he was named Artist of the Year by the Vermont Chapter American Guild of Organists.
He has composed and arranged about 100 pieces for carillon, including a number of ragtime piano works; his rather unusual European debut was an all-ragtime program in Ostende, Belgium. His popular ragtime piano performances and accompanying lectures are in demand at area community centers and colleges.
A Carillonneur member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA) since 1980, Mr. Matthew has served on the Carillon Directory Committee, the Student Advancement Committee, and the Bellfounding in America Committee (of which he was chairman). He made the US presentation in Zutphen, Netherlands in 1990 at the World Carillon Federation.
He has studied carillon with Arthur Bigelow and Frank Law, organ with Hugh Ross and Ernest White, and composition with David Barnett. He is a graduate of Columbia, Bridgeport, and Wesleyan Universities.
Date and Time
Saturday Apr 23, 2016
3:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Location
Luray Singing Tower: Northcott Drive, Luray, VA 22835
