Organist Joan Lippincott’s Debut Performance on the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ. Bach and Mozart Program at the Kimmel Center, Feb. 26
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
‘Almost everything about Joan Lippincott's organ recital proved first class...The organist displayed a strong architectonic flair in both programming and performance, a penchant for detail and more than ample technical facility to realize her interpretative goals.' —The Los Angeles Times
Master recitalist and teacher, Joan Lippincott debuts on The Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall on Saturday, February 26 at 3pm. A Bach specialist after eight critically acclaimed Bach in the Big Apple performances, Lippincott’s show features Bach’s monumental Passacaglia in C (BWV 582) and Liszt’s Prelude & Fugue on B-A-C-H. She will also play Mozart’s Fantasy in F-minor (K. 608), Trois Danses by Frenchman Jehan Alain and works by American composers Ned Rorem and Aaron Copland, performing his popular, Fanfare for the Common Man. Prior to this organ performance, Michael Barone of Pipedreams will moderate an Artist Chat with Lippincott at 2:15pm on the Verizon hall stage.
Tickets for Joan Lippincott organ recital are available for $19 to $28 and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office, open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings. (Additional fees may apply.) For group sales call 215-790-5883.
A Curtis Institute graduate, Joan Lippincott is well-known for her musicianship and technical skill. She has performed extensively in the United States and has toured throughout Europe and Canada. Lippincott has been a featured recitalist at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, at the Spoleto Festival, at The American Bach Society Biennial, at the Dublin International Organ Festival, and at conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society, and the Music Teachers National Association. She has performed on most of the prominent organs in churches and universities throughout the United States including Yale, Harvard, Duke, Stanford, Columbia, and Princeton. She has traveled widely in Europe, studying, playing, and performing in recital on historic and contemporary organs in Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and France.
Lippincott was Principal University Organist at Princeton University from 1993 to 2000, and for many years has been Professor of Organ at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. At Westminster, she was Head of the Organ Department, the largest organ department in the world, well known for the outstanding quality of work by students and faculty. She directed many European organ study tours and summer organ workshops, including the popular Organ Week for High School Students. She has served on summer faculties at the New England Conservatory of Music, University of Wisconsin, the Montreat Conference, the Evergreen Conference, and Bach Week at Columbia College.
Kimmel Center, Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit organization, owns, manages, supports and maintains The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, which includes Verizon Hall, Perelman Theater, Innovation Studio and the Merck Arts Education Center. Kimmel Center, Inc. also manages the Academy of Music, owned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, and the University of the Arts’ Merriam Theater. Our mission is to operate a world-class performing arts center that engages and serves a broad audience from throughout the Greater Philadelphia region.
The 2010/2011 season is sponsored by Citi, and the Broadway 2010/2011 season is sponsored by Verizon, and American Airlines. For additional information, visit kimmelcenter.org.
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