Organ Concert featuring Paul Jacobs

America’s most celebrated concert organist, Paul Jacobs is the only organ soloist ever to receive a Grammy Award.

At the age of 23, Jacobs made musical history when he performed the complete organ works of J.S. Bach in an 18-hour non-stop marathon performance. Jacobs had performed in all 50 states by the age of 31, and has also toured in Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia and appeared with major orchestras. He is chair of the organ department at The Juilliard School in New York City. His program will be varied, and will include works by J.S. Bach, Edward Elgar, and Jeanne Demessieux.

Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 8:00 pm
The Ballroom

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Complete your evening with an elegant pre-performance dinner in Longwood's Fine Dining Room, 1906. Dinner is $39 per person, plus tax and gratuity. (Garden Pass members receive a 10% discount). Make your reservations through OpenTable.com. View the menu.

More about Paul Jacobs

Known for his “charismatic showmanship and unflagging exuberance” (Wall Street Journal), Mr. Jacobs possesses a vast repertoire spanning from the 16th century through contemporary times, including several works written for him by Samuel Adler and Christopher Theofanidis, among others. He has performed the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in a series of nine-hour marathons in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Chicago, where the Chicago Tribune called him “one of the most supremely gifted young organists of his generation,” and in New York, where The New York Times praised his “supple technique and vivid interpretive imagination.”

Paul Jacobs began studying the piano at the age of six and the organ at age 13. At 15 he was appointed head organist of a parish of 3,500 families in his hometown of Washington, Pennsylvania. Mr. Jacobs studied at The Curtis Institute of Music, where he double-majored in organ with John Weaver and harpsichord with Lionel Party. At Yale University, where Mr. Jacobs subsequently studied organ with Thomas Murray, he received a Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma and was awarded several honors, including Yale School of Music’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

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