Sarah Johnson's Enchanting Organ Recital

🎼We are delighted to welcome Sarah Johnson to St. James Cathedral, Toronto to present today's lunchtime recital at 1:00pm 🤗 Share it with your family and friends! 🎹 Our Tuesday Organ Recital series features some of the region’s finest organists and the powerful sounds of St. James Cathedral’s 5,000 organ pipes. ⏰Concerts begin at 1:00 pm and last about 40 minutes. Admission is free and donations are encouraged. Sarah Johnson is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music, where she studies with David Higgs. A native of Garland, Maine, Sarah began her organ lessons with Kevin Birch, organist and music director at Saint John’s Catholic Church in Bangor. In her undergraduate degree at Vassar College, she studied organ with Gail Archer and piano with Todd Crow. Sarah holds a Master of Sacred Music from Boston University, where she studied organ with Peter Sykes. Since beginning college, Sarah has performed in New York City at Central Synagogue, in Boston at Old West, Trinity Copley, and Holy Name Parish, in Atlanta at the Cathedral of St. Philip, and recently in Naumburg, Germany at St. Wenzel. She was named an E. Power Biggs Fellow of the Organ Historical Society in 2013 and featured as a rising star and guest recitalist at the 2017 Musforum Conference in Omaha, Nebraska. She is a board member of the Saint John’s Organ Society in Bangor, dedicated to the preservation of E. & G.G. Hook Opus 288, and recently performed on their 29 th annual concert series. Sarah has also performed at Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, MA on their 74 th and 76 th annual concert series. During her time in Boston, Sarah was Organ Scholar at Holy Name Parish in West Roxbury and Assistant Librarian at the Organ Library of the American Guild of Organists. In Rochester, Sarah was the Organ Assistant (VanDelinder Prize Winner) at Christ Church for the years 2018-2020 and Minister of Music at Church of the Ascension from 2020-2023. Organ Program Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major BWV 564 J.S. Bach Nun ruhen alle Wälder - Jacques van Oortmerssen Scherzetto from 24 Pièces en style libre, Op.31 Louis Vierne Largo from Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World" Antonin Dvořák, transc. Edwin Lemare Fantasia and Fugue in E minor, Op. 2, No. 1 John Knowles Paine