Advent Musical Reflections 2 - December 6, 2020 | St. John's Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Welcome to the second of a four-part Advent Musical Reflections series from St. John's Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Poughkeepsie, NY! Peter Walker (bagpipes) and Patrick Walker (organ) present a collection of seasonal music for Advent and Christmas from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque. Renaissance Bagpipes, Peter Walker Organ, Patrick Walker Medieval Bagpipe and Organ Veni Emmanuel (French, 15th century) Picardy (French traditional) Personent Hodie (Piae Cantiones, 1582) Swedish Bagpipe Solo Polska från Säfsnäs Polska efter Nedgårs Lars Vrålkåda Medieval Bagpipe and Organ Gabriel’s Message Den Hoboeken Dans Ronde, Mon Amy Den III Ronde Bergerette Scottish Smallpipe Solo Tàladh Chrìosda Cárul Inis Córthaidh St. Columba Christmas Day ida Moarnin Cornemuse du Centre and Organ Orientis Partibus (Carol of the Donkey, from Beauvais before 1250) Bransle des Cheveaux (T. Arbeau, 1588) Bransle l’Officiel (T. Arbeau, 1588) *All arrangements by Patrick Walker Composer and Organist Patrick Walker’s work explores the boundaries of the emotional and expressive possibilities of traditional structures and harmonies, while embracing the many new musical resources and techniques available to the 21st century composer. He has recently received commissions from the American Guild of Organist's Boston Chapter and the Juventas New Music Ensemble and his work has been performed in Canada, Russia, and across America by the Boston University Symphony, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Heinrich Christensen, Cygnus Trio and others. His music was awarded the BU Composition Department Prize for Performance with Orchestra in 2019 and the Jean Slater Edson prize for Composition from the Vassar College Music Department in 2015. Patrick recently received a Master of Music degree in Composition and Organ Performance from the Boston University College of Fine Arts where he studied with Richard Cornell and Peter Sykes. He graduated Vassar College in 2016 where he studied organ performance with Gail Archer, composition with Richard Wilson and Jonathan Chennette, and conducting with Eduardo Nevega. Patrick holds an AGO Colleague certification and currently serves as Director of Music Ministries at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Poughkeepsie, NY. Peter Walker plays a variety of bagpipes including the Highland bagpipe, Irish uilleann pipes, gaita gallega, Swedish bagpipe, Scottish smallpipes, cornemuse du Berry, and hümmelchen. Notable performances include an appearance with Three Notch'd Road as bagpipe soloist in Leopold Mozart's "Die Bauernhochzeit", solo performances with Early Music New York and other ensembles, and winning the Overseas Class in the Lowland and Border Pipers' Society 2016 competition, in addition an appearance as Highland bagpipe soloist in Peter Maxwell Davies' "Orkney Wedding with Sunrise" with the Stamford Symphony Orchestra. He is the director of Marginalia, an ensemble specializing in the instrumental music and piping of the Medieval era, whose program "Marginalia: in search of the medieval bagpipe" recently premiered in New York. Peter also appears as pipe major of The King's Highlanders, a pipe and drum ensemble specializing in the field music of the 18th century Highland regiments, and forms half of The Royal Pipers, a bagpipe duo playing renaissance and continental European music on a variety of French and Spanish pipes. In addition to concert work (solo and with ensembles up to a full symphony orchestra) he plays regularly for weddings, funerals, and other events, for which he is happy to help decide what instrument and music is right for the venue and occasion. You can hear Peter's piping on his soundcloud page here: / peterwalkerpiper If you'd like to make an online offering, please use this link: http://www.stjohnselc.org/resources/e... Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, License A-708517. All rights reserved.
