Boston Organ Academy International Series For
more information
Yuko Hayashi & Jon Gillock
January 12-16, 2009
Legacy of Anton Heiller
Music of Heiller & Bach
January 30, 2009
Christa Rakich
March 27, 2009
John Skelton
May 15, 2009
Marian Ruhl Metson
about any event, call
617-739-1340
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST SERIES
MARIAN RUHL METSON
Marian Ruhl Metson is Organist and Director of Music at First Lutheran Church in Yuba City,
California, where she plays a German Baroque style organ built in 1994 by Munetaka
Yokota. She previously held positions as Assistant Organist at Memorial Church, Harvard
University, as Director of Music at Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, D. C.,
and Belleville Congregational Church in Newburyport, Massachusetts. From 1981 to 1993
she taught organ at Boston University and performed frequently in the Boston area. She
holds degrees from BaldwinWallace College, Boston University and pursued additional
study with Anton Heiller in Vienna, Austria.
For the past twenty five years Marian has been a champion for American music as well as
historic American organs. She has recorded for the Raven label organ works of twentieth
century composers Ernst Bacon and John Cook, as well as surveys of historic organs in
Newburyport, Massachusetts (“Yankee: Come Home!”) and the Boston area (“Christmas
Rhapsody”), all enthusiastically received by critics and public alike.
Marian is a frequent recitalist for national conventions of the Organ Historical Society and has
played for national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists. She
played one of the dedication recitals of the Fisk at Old West Church in the spring of 1971,
has played subsequently over the years, and is delighted to be returning one more time to
honor the memory of Anton Heiller
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fugue in C minor BWV 575
Prelude and Fugue in C (9/8) BWV 547
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (from Leipzig Chorales) BWV 659,660,661
Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV 541
Anton Heiller (1923-1979)
Variations on "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland"
Chorale: "Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin"
Peter Planyavsky (born 1947)
Fantasie in Memory of A H
Old West Organ Society
Old West Church
131 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02114
Handicap accessible