Matteo Imbruno to Give the Edgar John Lownes Memorial Organ Concert, Sunday, February 4, 4:00 p.m., Sayles Hall

International concert organist Matteo Imbruno will perform works by Sweelinck, Frescobaldi, Bach, and other baroque composers for Brown University's 2007 Edgar John Lownes Memorial Organ Concert on Sunday, February 4, at 4:00 p.m., in Sayles Hall on the Campus Green. Imbruno will play on the University's historic 1903 Hutchings-Votey organ. Other composers featured in this concert include Scheidemann, Bruna, Fischer, and De Arauxo.

Currently, Imbruno is the organist of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, the very position that Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck held in the seventeenth century. Active as concert performer, Imbruno has played in the most prestigious festivals and music centres of Europe, Japan, and the United States. He is invited to give master classes throughout Europe, especially on subjects concerning renaissance and baroque music. Imbruno has recorded six CDs on various historic organs and has made several recordings for the BBC radio in London .

The concert is free and open to the public. Sayles Hall is handicapped accessible. The event is sponsored by Brown University's Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life and Music Department. For more information, visit www.brown.edu/ocrl .

Tentative Program

HEINRICH SCHEIDEMANN 1596–1663
Benedicam Domino (Intavolatura di un mottetto a 6 voci di Hieronymus Praetorius)

ANONIMOUS (The Netherland, c.1635)
3 variation on “Daphne”

JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK 1562–1621
Ballo del granduca

PABLO BRUNA 1611–1679
Tiento de medio registro de mano derecha de primo tono

JOHANN CASPAR FERDINAND FISCHER 1670–1746
Chaconne in F

GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI 1583–1643
Bergamasca

FRANCISCO CORREA DE ARAUXO 1575–1654
Tiento de medio registro de dos tiples de septimo tono

JOHANN CASPAR FERDINAND FISCHER
Passacaglia in d

PABLO BRUNA
Tiento de 2° tono por Gesolreut sobre la letanía de la Virgen

JOHANN  SEBASTIAN  BACH  1685–1750
Nun Komm'  der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659

HEINRICH SCHEIDEMANN
Alleluja, laudem dicite Deo nostro (Intavolatura di un mottetto a 5 voci di Hans Leo
Ha ß ler)

Image: Courtesy of Matteo Imbruno @ http://www.antenna.nl/matteo.imbruno/