World-Renowned Organist Daniel Roth to Perform in Great Organ Concert Series April 27, 2010

Daniel Roth, Professor of Organ at Frankfurt am Main and organist at Saint-Sulpice in Paris, will perform in the “Great Organ: Great Artists” concert series at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Tuesday, April 27, at 7:30PM.

The “Great Organ: Great Artists” concert series consists of six performances by some of the most celebrated organists in the world including: Daniel Roth, Gerre Hancock, Olivier Latry, Marilyn Keiser, Thierry Escaich and Peter Conte. The featured organists were chosen as individuals who represent a range of world organ performance traditions and are expected to exercise their own individual style of organ playing, utilizing the distinctive features of the Great Organ.

The Great Organ – originally built by renowned American organ builder Ernest Skinner in 1910 and later expanded by the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company in the 1950s – is a unique instrument, custom built with more than 1,800 pipes and 100 speaking stops, and was designed to take advantage of the dramatic acoustics of the world’s largest Gothic Cathedral.

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at http://www.stjohndivine.org/GreatOrganSeries.html. For more information, call (212) 316-7490.

Official Website: http://www.stjohndivine.org/GreatOrganSeries.html