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Northwestern State University
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1/14/2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATCHITOCHES – Organist Brent Stamey will present a recital at Northwestern State University Sunday, Jan. 20 at 3 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
Stamey, a native of Natchitoches, is a senior organ performance major at Baylor University where he studies with Dr. Joyce Jones and is a Dean’s List student with a 4.0 grade point average. He will graduate in May and plans to pursue graduate studies in organ performance. Stamey is a 2004 graduate of the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts. He began organ study at age 15 under Jarrett Follette of St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Shreveport.
Last June, he performed for the American Guild of Organists Region VII Convention in Dallas as winner of the AGO/Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists. He will also perform at the AGO National Convention in Minneapolis this summer. Last May, Stamey was named the Presser Scholar, the highest honor given by the Baylor School of Music.
He was a winner of the prestigious Augustana Arts / Reuter National Undergraduate Organ Playing Competition in Denver, and performed the Handel First Concerto for organ with the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra in Denver.
Stamey was named the Outstanding Sophomore in the Baylor School of Music and was accepted into the Pi Kappa Lambda music honor society. He was selected as one of two recitalists in the Young Organ Virtuosi concert series with recital engagements in Washington, Connecticut and Colorado. This season he is also giving recitals in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. He is the principal organist at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Waco.
His program will include “Moto Ostinato” (Sunday Music) by Petr Eben, “Scherzo, WoO 33, No. 2” by Beethoven, Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in F Major,” “Praeludium” by Dietrich Buxtehude “Homage à Buxtehude” by Eben, “Canzona a l’Epistola” by Girolamo Frescobaldi and “Homage à Frescobaldi, Opus 70” by Jean Langlais.
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