Music by Bach, Karg-Elert, Paulus, Widor, Franck, and Dupré

A native of Toronto, Canada, Kola Owolabi is University Organist and Assistant

Professor of Music at Syracuse University. He holds degrees from McGill University, Yale University, and The Eastman School of Music. Dr. Owolabi has performed across Canada, the United States, Mexico and Jamaica.

 

Join us for an evening of exceptional singing! The festival will bring together The Crystal Coast Choral Society, the Greenville Choral Society Chamber Chorale, The Craven Community Chorus, The Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina’s Schola Cantorum, and the choir of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, Durham. Culminating in a grand, combined performance of C.V. Stanford’s majestic “Te Deum” in B-flat. Please note that nursery care will be available for young children.

Finley Woolston, guest conductor and ECMAEF board member

Andrew Scanlon, organist

Tickets: $10 in advance/$12 at the door. Tickets are available from “The Scullery” (431 Evans Street) in downtown Greenville, NC

In conjunction with East Carolina University’s 6^th Annual Organ Competition, guest artist and competition judge, Dr. Joby Bell will present a program of music by Franck, Bach, Gawthrop, Jongen, and others on the C.B. Fisk organ at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Dr. Bell's concertizing throughout the United States has met with high acclaim, while his performances abroad have been enthusiastically received in Paris, Chartres, London, and throughout Scotland, Romania, and Hungary. In 2000, he garnered the Audience Prize and Second Prize in the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance.