Concerts at Saint Thomas Announces their Digital 2020 Season

Organist and Director of Music Jeremy Filsell’s second season presents digital performances from Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue this Fall.

This season includes organ performances from Joy-Leilani Garbutt, Nicholas Quardokus, and Nicolas Haigh on the Miller-Scott Organ, the Complete Beethoven Sonatas by pianist Adam Golka, and the music of Handel and Purcell with New York Baroque Incorporated and mezzo-soprano Sarah Rose Taylor.

For immediate release – New York, NY – Concerts at Saint Thomas announces the fall performances of their 2020-21 season, the second season with Organist and Director of Music, Jeremy Filsell. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, Concerts at Saint Thomas will present their fall programming digitally.

The season will open with organist and American Fulbright scholar Joy-Leilani Garbutt on October 3. The program, which was initially to be performed during the 2019-20 season, will include a program of rediscovered French organ music by female composers of the early 20th century including Jeanne Demessieux, Elsa Barraine, Nadia Boulanger, and other women of the early 20th century.

On October 17, Assistant Organist, Nicholas Quardokus, will perform music ranging from Bach to Distler and Buxtehude to Reger on both the Loening-Hancock and Miller-Scott organs to juxtapose masterworks from the Baroque, late-Romantic, and Neoclassical eras.

Pianist Adam Golka will present the first three parts of an eight-part concert series surveying Beethoven’s complete Piano Sonatas. The series, which is a celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday celebration, will begin on October 24, with the following two installments taking place on October 31 and November 21 respectively.

The centerpiece of the Fall 2020 Digital Season will feature the return of New York Baroque Incorporated to Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. The chamber concert, directed by Jeremy Filsell, will also feature rising mezzo-soprano Sarah Rose Taylor in a program comprising the heroic music of G.F. Handel and Henry Purcell, both of whom emerged as important figures in English music history following the restoration of King Charles II to the English throne of 1660.

The Fall 2020 Digital Season closes on December 5 as Associate Organist, Nicolas Haigh, celebrates the Christmas season with a showcase of the hidden and delicate sounds of the Miller-Scott Organ for a performance of Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur.