Mid-Day Music

The April 13, 2016 Mid-Day Music program features Jacob Street, organ. The concert starts at 12:05 p.m. and lasts approximately one-half hour. The recital is free but donations are gladly accepted. A light lunch follows for a $5 donation.

Organist and harpsichordist Jacob Street performs extensively throughout New England as a solo recitalist and continuo player. A graduate of Holy Cross College and Oberlin Conservatory, Jacob is currently pursuing a Master’s in organ at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. He has studied organ with John Skelton, James David Christie, Olivier Latry, Arvid Gast, and Thomas Murray, as well as harpsichord with Webb Wiggins, Michael Fuerst, and Arthur Haas. From 2013-2014 he studied as a Fulbright Scholar in Lübeck, Germany.

Jacob has been a prizewinner in multiple competitions, including most recently, the Prix de la ville d’Angers in the Jean-Louis Florentz International Organ Competition. He has performed across Europe and North America, including in Tallinn, Estonia; Toronto, Ontario; and in concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Jacob currently serves as Interim Director of Music at St. Paul’s, Norwalk.

Jacob is artistic director and the harpsichordist of les soûls d’amour, an early music ensemble of singers, strings, and hurdy-gurdy, featuring lively and lovely repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque, best heard with wine glass in hand. The group debuted to great acclaim this past summer in performances throughout New England, including a debut show at St. Paul’s Norwalk and at the Boston Early Music Festival. Recordings of the ensemble may be found at soundcloud.com/lessoulsdamour .

Jacob is an active music critic, and was the winner of the inaugural Rubin Award for Music Criticism while at Oberlin. In his free time, Jacob enjoys running and attempting to learn to play the viola da gamba.

The concert will be held at St. Paul’s on the Green, 60 East Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06851.

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