Noontunes Summer Concert: Thomas Sheehan, organ

Wednesday, July 6th, 2016; Thomas Sheehan, organ

Please join us on Wednesday, July 6th, at 12:15pm, for the first concert of our annual Noontunes Summer Concert Series. Organist Tom Sheehan, will be presenting the program. The concert will take place in the stone church at the Church of the Messiah, 22 Church Street, Woods Hole. Free-will offering.

Thomas Sheehan is the Associate University Organist and Choirmaster in the Memorial Church at Harvard University and the accompanist and Teaching Fellow for the Harvard Glee Club. Prior to these positions, he served on the music staff of Saint Mark's Church in Philadelphia, PA and Trinity Episcopal Church in Princeton, NJ. 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 will be beginning doctoral studies at the Boston University School of Music this fall, studying with Peter Sykes. He received both the Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, as a student of Ken Cowan. He has also studied improvisation with Matthew Glandorf, Ford Lallerstedt, and Bruce Neswick. 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.