PROGRAM
Pièce d’Orgue, BWV 572
Johann Sebastian Bach Tres vitement-Gravement-Lentement (1685–1750)
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731
Andante, K. 616
Méditation, B.12*
Corinne Stillwell, violin
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)
* This piece is currently unpublished and is being edited for a new edition by Iain Quinn. It is possible that this is the first performance of the piece since 1897.
Praeludium Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967)
Epigrams Zoltán Kodály
I. Lento arr. Gábor Trajtler
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IV. Moderato
V. Allegretto
VI. Andantino
VII. Con moto
VIII.
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Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Johann Sebastian Bach
Born in Cardiff, Wales, Dr. Iain Quinn is an award-winning organist, musicologist, and composer with over ninety publications across multiple disciplines. He is Associate Professor of Organ and Coordinator of Sacred Music at Florida State University.
Dr. Quinn has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and a Visiting Composer in Chapel at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. As a composer, he has received commissions from churches across the USA and UK and from the American Guild of Organists. He has been a Fulbright Scholar (2017), teaching at The Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory, the Rudolph Ganz Fellow (2018) at The Newberry Library, Chicago, and the
recipient of a fellowship (2020) from the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin. Earlier in his career, he received a fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust for research on the historic organs of Brazil, and grants from Musica Britannica, Society for American Music, The Prince’s Trust, and the Music & Letters Trust.
He began his study of the organ with Robert Court and Nicolas Kynaston, having also studied the piano and trumpet. In 1994, he moved to the USA to pursue advanced study at The Juilliard School, The Hartt School, University of Hartford, (BM summa cum laude), and the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University (MM). His principal teachers were John Weaver, Larry Allen, Thomas Murray, and William Porter (improvisation). In 2009, he returned to the UK as a Doctoral Fellow at the University of Durham where he was also Director of Music at the College of St Hild and St Bede. He completed the PhD (Historical Musicology) in 2012. He also holds the diplomas of Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and Fellow of the Royal Schools of Music.
Dr. Quinn has held college, church and cathedral positions in Durham (UK), New York, Connecticut, New Mexico and Georgia. He has taught at the Blackheath Conservatoire, London, Western Connecticut State University, the University of the South summer school, and Oundle for Organists (UK) and he gives regular masterclasses. He has presented lectures and conference papers in the UK, Europe, and North America, including papers for the Royal Musical Association-Society for Musicology in Ireland, College Music Society, American Musicological Society, and for universities throughout the USA.
He is the author of two books: The Genesis and Development of an English Sonata (Routledge – Royal Musical Association Monograph Series, 2017); The Organist in Victorian Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and the editor of Studies in English Organ Music (Routledge, 2018). Further scholarly writings have been published in Tempo, Notes (MLA), Journal of Victorian Culture, The American Organist, The Organ, and Interpreting Historical Keyboard Music (Ashgate). He has also edited critical editions of Samuel Barber (2 vv) (G. Schirmer), Carl Czerny (2 vv), John Goss (A-R Editions), Corelli-Czerny, Robert Papperitz (Ur Orpheus Edizioni), and volumes 1 and 7 of the Edward Elgar Complete Edition. His reconstruction and publication of the early choral work of Samuel Barber, Christmas Eve, was the subject of interviews for American Public Media’s Performance Today and Pipedreams that were heard on National Public Radio with performances by the Harvard University Choir. His most recent research will be published in his next monograph, Music and Religion in the writings of Ian McEwan (Boydell & Brewer, 2023).
Dr. Quinn has given performances in many of the world’s most important musical centers including London (St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral), Cambridge (King’s College, St. John’s College, Trinity College), Oxford (Queen’s College), Haarlem (St. Bavo), Berlin (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche), Lisbon (Sé), Melbourne (Melba Hall), Moscow (Gnessin Academy), Washington (National Cathedral and National Shrine), New York (St. Thomas Fifth Avenue and Alice Tully Hall) and Hong Kong (Cultural Centre). He has also performed at many international festivals, including Tender is the North (Barbican Centre, London), Cambridge Summer Music (UK), Basically Bach (New York), Festival Barocco (Rome), Closer to Bach (Gdansk), 31 Days of Organ Music (Krakow), Dark Days Music Festival (Reykjavik), Dundee Summer Festival (Scotland), Cardiff Festival (Wales), Welsh Arts Festival (San Francisco), Orgue et Couleurs (Montreal) and the Göteborg International Organ Academy, Sweden.
Dr. Quinn’s choral and organ works are published by Church Music Publishing, Encore Publications, GIA Music, and Paraclete Press. He has recorded fifteen CDs as an organist or conductor that are available on the Chandos, Guild, Hyperion, Naxos, Raven, and Regent labels. His most recent recordings include the Complete Organ Sonatas of C.P.E. Bach recorded at Princeton Theological Seminary (Naxos); The Enlightenment Influence, works of
Mozart, Beethoven, and Hummel recorded at Trinity College, Cambridge University (Regent); Twentieth-Century Masterworks, Hindemith organ sonatas and works of Heiller, Pärt, and Shostakovich recorded at Pacific Lutheran University (Guild); Haydn Organ Concertos with Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo (Chandos); Organ works of Vincent Persichetti (Naxos). The choir and organists of Selwyn College have recorded a CD of his organ and choral works, The Garment of Holiness (Regent), and the Harvard University Choir have recorded his anthem Save us, good Lord (Harvard). His compositions have frequently been featured on BBC broadcasts including a televised performance of his anthem Christus est stella with the Durham University Chamber Choir on Songs of Praise. This episode examined the life of the Venerable Bede and was specifically filmed on The Holy Island of Lindisfarne.
Violinist Corinne Stillwell entered The Juilliard School at the age of ten, where she subsequently spent 15 years working with Dorothy DeLay. A versatile musician, she is an active soloist and chamber musician, a dedicated teacher, and a frequent concertmaster and orchestral leader. Currently Associate Professor at Florida State University, she also is Concertmaster of the Tallahassee Symphony and Artist Faculty at the Brevard Music Center.
A frequent concerto soloist, Ms. Stillwell has been featured in over 30 works with orchestras, including the New Jersey Symphony, the Nanjing Philharmonic in China, the Amarillo Symphony, the Greater Rochester Women’s Philharmonic, and on tour to Romania, Hungary, and Poland. As a recitalist, she has performed at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess series, and in Germany, Canada, and across the United States. For over 25 years, she has been a frequent orchestral leader, having served as Concertmaster of the Amarillo Symphony, Randall Chamber Orchestra, Janiec Opera Company, and the School of American Ballet Orchestra; Guest Concertmaster of the Nanjing Philharmonic in China; and Associate Concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic and the Victoria Bach Festival.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Stillwell has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today; was a founding member of Trio Solis; and has collaborated with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, violinist Mikhail Kopelman, and members of the Ying, Cavani, Pro Arte, and Carpe Diem quartets. She has also performed at Alice Tully Hall and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, Chamber Music Rochester, the Amarillo Chamber Music Society, Kosciuszko Foundation, and the American Festival of Microtonal Music. Other festival appearances include Saarburg (Germany), Aspen, Norfolk, Skaneateles, and Arizona Musicfest. As a member of the Harrington String Quartet, she performed extensively across the Midwest, from Texas to Wisconsin. Other projects with the Quartet included a PBS documentary, TV and radio broadcasts, and collaborations with clarinetist David Shifrin, pianist Robert Levin, and guitarist Pepé Romero. Her mentors have included members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, Amadeus, and Vermeer quartets.
With a robust studio at Florida State University, Ms. Stillwell is a dedicated teacher known for her community engagement activities. In 2018, she launched “Building Bridges,” a multi-year project featuring performances of the complete Beethoven string quartets in collaboration with aspiring young musicians. She has also taught courses on the Beethoven quartets for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and is currently the coach and mentor for Sinfonia Gulf Coast’s Quartet-in-Residence. She has given masterclasses at many music schools, such as the Eastman School of Music and Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, and she has also served on the faculties of West Texas A&M University, Kinhaven Music School, Point CounterPoint Music Festival, and the Hochstein School of Music, where she was the Director of Chamber Music. Locally, she is Co-Artistic Director of Music for Food Tallahassee, a musician-led initiative to fight hunger and further social justice. She has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, and MSR Classics.