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SUMMARY:Philip Brisson\, organ
DESCRIPTION:The Seattle chapter has extended an invitation for the Tacoma c
 hapter to attend this event.\n\nDr. Philip Brisson is Director of Music an
 d Organist at the Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption in downtown Louisvi
 lle\, the third oldest Catholic Cathedral in the country. In addition to l
 eading the Cathedral's worship program\, he also manages the Cathedral’s
  Concert Series\, which includes the Kelty Endowed Organ Recitals which ha
 ve further recognized the Cathedral for not only musical excellence in lit
 urgy but also for outstanding concerts in the Louisville community. Philip
  has led the Cathedral Choir on international concert tours to England\, I
 reland\, Germany\, and Austria. Recently\, the choir traveled to Washingto
 n DC for performances in the Arlington area and at the National Shrine. Lo
 cally\, the Cathedral Choirs have performed with the Louisville Orchestra\
 , have been featured on television\, and have appeared annually for concer
 ts in collaboration with Louisville’s Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral 
 and Calvary Episcopal Church under the title “Louisville’s Three Choir
 s Festival.” Recent solo performing experiences have included being “O
 rganist in Residence” at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford\, England\; a
 ppearing on the L’Organo Recital Series at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival 
 in Charleston\, SC\; and concertizing in Hasselt\, Belgium and Rome\, Ital
 y.\n\nDr. Brisson was instrumental in the founding of the Louisville Maste
 r Chorale\, a premier chorale ensemble which performs the great chorale li
 terature with orchestra in local churches throughout the Louisville area\,
  where he was Organist and Associate Director for its first five years. Pr
 ior to his work with the LMC\, he was Chorus Master for the Kentucky Opera
  and prepared choruses for performances which included Puccini’s Turando
 t and Madame Butterfly\, Verdi’s La Traviata\, Il Trovatore and Otello\,
  Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites\, Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalil
 a\, Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance\, Massenet’s Werther\, Floyd’s Of
  Mice and Men\, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel\, Leoncavallo’s I Pagl
 iacci\, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana\, Tchaikovsky's Iolanta\, and Do
 nizetti’s L'elisir d'Amore.\n\nAs an organ soloist\, he has given recita
 ls in all 50 states. He has appeared with the Lexington Philharmonic\, the
  Oratorio Society of Queens\, and with the Louisville Orchestra as guest s
 oloist performing the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony with Raymond Leppard con
 ducting. In the summer of 2011\, Philip was also a featured performer for 
 the Region V AGO Convention in Lexington\, KY and the NPM National Convent
 ion in Louisville\, KY.\n\nAs a teacher\, Dr. Brisson served on the facult
 y of Bellarmine University where he taught organ performance and a Church 
 Music Internship at the Cathedral. Until taking over the Kentucky Opera Ch
 orus\, he oversaw the choral program at Indiana University Southeast\, whe
 re he conducted the Concert Choir\, the Community Chorus\, and taught chor
 al conducting. He has also presented workshops to the American Guild of Or
 ganists and to the National Association of Pastoral Musicians at both the 
 regional and national level.\n\nOriginally from New York City\, Philip rec
 eived his BM in Organ Performance from the Aaron Copland School of Music a
 t Queens College\, CUNY. While at Queens\, he studied organ and conducting
  with Paul Maynard\, the former director of the New York Pro Musica. After
  being accepted into graduate organ performance programs at Juilliard\, In
 diana\, and Michigan\, Philip decided to attend Westminster Choir College 
 in Princeton\, New Jersey\, where he earned a Masters in Sacred Music. Whi
 le at Westminster\, he studied organ with Robert Carwithen and choral cond
 ucting with Allen Crowell. He was also fortunate to regularly sing under J
 oseph Flummerfelt in the Westminster Symphonic Choir which performed Strav
 insky’s Symphony of Psalms with the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, conducted
  by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Hindemith’s Requiem with the Philadelphia Orch
 estra\, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. In 2005\, Philip earned a Doctor
 ate in Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester\, N
 ew York\, where he studied organ with David Higgs and received a choral co
 nducting minor while studying conducting with William Weinert.\n\nPhilip B
 risson is active in the American Guild of Organists\, has served on the Lo
 uisville Chapter’s Executive Committee and has held both the Sub-Dean an
 d Dean positions for the Guild. He is also the National Association of Pas
 toral Musicians Organist Liaison for the Louisville Archdiocese\, has serv
 ed as Membership Chairman of the Roman Catholic Conference of Cathedral Mu
 sicians\, and is a member of The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. Dr.
  Brisson also founded the concert artist cooperative EastWestOrganists.com
 \, which represents several prominent young American organists in the Unit
 ed States. Philip\, his wife\, and their eight-year-old daughter reside in
  Old Louisville\, the nation’s largest Victorian Historic District.\n\nP
 rogram:\nPrelude and Fugue on BACH – Franz Liszt\nTrio Sonata in C minor
  – J.S. Bach \nGrande Piece Symphonique – Cesar Franck \nThe Peace May
  Be Exchanged – Dan Locklair \nToccata on Amazing Grace – J. Christope
 r Pardini
CATEGORIES:Organ Recitals
LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Church\, 609 8th Avenue\, Seattle\, WA\, 98104\,
  Seattle\, United States
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