International
Artist Series

February 15, 2008   
Yuko Hayashi
works of Couperin,
Clerambault,
Nicolas de Grigny,
Muffat and Bach

April 4, 2008          
Jon Gillock
"La Nativite" by
Olivier Messiaen

April 1, 2008          
Jon Gillock Masterclass

Special
Workshop

February 18, 2008
9 am to 3 pm
Workshop by Roberta
Gary and Thom Miles:
What Every Organist
Needs to Know about
the Body

For more information
about any event, call
617-739-1340

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST SERIES



JON GILLOCK
Press and public alike acclaim American organist Jon Gillock for his sensitive and moving performances. He is especially fond of performing the "French spiritual repertoire". This includes the music of such composers as François Couperin, Maurice Duruflé, Nicolas de Grigny, César Franck, Charles Tournemire, Louis Vierne, and, of course, Olivier Messiaen and Johann Sebastian Bach. Jon Gillock earned degrees at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and The Juilliard School in New York City. He also studied with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory.

A friend of Messiaen and one of his preferred interpreters, Gillock has given premieres of several of Messiaen’s works for organ in New York City, across the United States, and in Japan. He is known internationally as an authority on this repertoire. Jon Gillock has established an international career not only as a performer but also as a master teacher. Now a resident of Paris, he has been a member of the organ faculties of both The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music in New York City and Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. He regularly participates each summer as Artist Faculty with Yuko Hayashi in the Boston Organ Academy sponsored by the Old West Organ Society.

Jon Gillock was named INTERNATIONAL PERFORMER OF THE YEAR, 1999-2000, by the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. This prestigious honor was awarded to him "in recognition of his outstanding achievements and contributions to organ performance". Among the awards he has received for his recordings are the "Diapason d’Or" and the "10 de Répertoire" in France and the "Deutsche Schallplatten Preis", the Grand Prix in Germany.

His forthcoming book about the interpretation of Messiaen’s ogan music will be released by Indiana University Press in 2008.

PROGRAM
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