Don't Miss: Concert 4PM Jan. 4 in Brewster at First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church in Brewster’s Jan. 4 concert features its organist, Dr. Johannes Landgren, and singer and choir director Dominique Hellsten.

Dr Johannes Landgren was born in 1961in Arjeplog, northern Sweden. He is an organist and conductor, and as such has given numerous concerts, toured and recorded. Along with many other musicians, Dr Landgren has recorded more than 25 CD:s, toured all over Europe, and in the USA and in Russia. His repertoire spans from the renaissance and the baroque to popular, jazz and contemporary classical music. Common to these genres is improvisation, which alters the perspective of the given work and creates new ways to approach the same. As a conductor and organist, Dr Landgren has collaborated with a number of professional choirs and has won many prizes at international festivals.

Dr Landgren is both a freelance musician and also Professor at the Academy of Music and Drama, as well as Pro-Dean at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at Gothenburg University

Dominique Hellsten, Director of Music a First United Methodist Church, Brewster , NY and Dr Johannes Landgren, studied at the same time at the Academy of Music, as it was then, in Gothenburg, Sweden in the late 1980s.

Their first concert together was a tour of recitals in the Swedish countryside in the summer of 1987. Ms Hellsten moved to England in 1990, but she and Dr Landgren kept in touch, and continued their professional collaborations in London, Paris, Brussels, Sweden of course and also recorded a CD of sacred music for soprano and organ, from the 20 century.

The organ is original to the church’s 1834 opening.

The concert is free—donations will be put toward the organ fund.