THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY College of Music presents
Members of The University Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Jiménez, Music Director and Conductor
With Special Guest Iain Quinn, Organ
Friday, March 21, 2025
7:30 p.m. | Trinity United Methodist Church
Sonata No. 1 for Organ and Strings
Daniel Pinkham (1923–2006)
Sonata No. 2 for Organ and Strings
Andante sereno
Allegro scherzando
Sonata No. 3 for Organ and Strings
Allegro grazioso
Allegretto balando
Andante dolente
Vivace — Brief Pause —
Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings, and Timpani
Poulenc (1899–1963)
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Alexander Jiménez serves as Professor of Conducting, Director of Orchestral Activities, and String Area Coordinator at the Florida State University College of Music. Prior to his appointment at FSU in 2000, Jiménez served on the faculties of San Francisco State University and Palm Beach Atlantic University. Under his direction, the FSU orchestral studies program has expanded and been recognized as one of the leading orchestral studies programs in the country. Jiménez has recorded on the Naxos, Neos, Canadian Broadcasting Ovation, and Mark labels. Deeply committed to music by living composers, Jiménez has had fruitful and long-term collaborations with such eminent composers as Ellen Taafe Zwilich and the late Ladisalv Kubík, as well as working with Anthony Iannaccone, Krzysztof Penderecki, Martin Bresnick, Zhou Long, Chen Yi, Harold Schiffman, Louis Andriessen, and Georg Friedrich Haas. The University Symphony Orchestra has appeared as a featured orchestra for the College Orchestra Directors National Conference and the American String Teachers Association National Conference, and the University Philharmonia has performed at the Southeast Conference of the Music Educators National Conference (now the National Association for Music Education). The national PBS broadcast of Zwilich’s Peanuts’ Gallery® featuring the University Symphony Orchestra was named outstanding performance of 2007 by the National Educational Television Association.
Active as a guest conductor and clinician, Jiménez has conducted extensively in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, including with the Brno Philharmonic (Czech Republic) and the Israel Netanya Chamber Orchestra. In 2022, Jiménez led the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a recording of works by Anthony Iannaccone. Deeply devoted to music education, he serves as international ambassador for the European Festival of Music for Young People in Belgium, is a conductor of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in Massachusetts and serves as Festival Orchestra Director and artistic director of the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. Jiménez has been the recipient of University Teaching Awards in 2006 and 2018, The Transformation Through Teaching Award, and the Guardian of the Flame Award which is given to an outstanding faculty mentor. Jiménez is a past president of the College Orchestra Directors Association and served as music director of the Tallahassee Youth Orchestras from 2000-2017.
Born in Cardiff, Wales, Professor Iain Quinn is an award-winning organist, composer, and cultural historian with over one hundred publications across multiple disciplines. He is Professor of Organ and Coordinator of Sacred Music at Florida State University. He is also a Research Fellow in the Arts and Humanities and Director of the annual Festival of the Creative Arts in the Office of the Vice President for Research.
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, teaching at The Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory, the Rudolph Ganz Fellow at The Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf Fellow at 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, (B.M. summa cum laude), and the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University (M.M.). 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.
Quinn has held college, church, and cathedral positions in Durham (UK), New York, Connecticut, and New Mexico. He is currently Director of Music and Organist at First Presybterian Church, Thomasville, 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 four books: The Genesis and Development of an English Sonata (Routledge – Royal Musical Association Monograph Series, 2017); The Organist in Victorian Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); Music and Religion in the Writings of Ian McEwan (Boydell and Brewer, 2023); Rudolph Ganz, Patriotism, and Standardization of The Star-Spangled Banner, 1907-1958 (Routledge, 2023). He is also the editor of Studies in English Organ Music (Routledge, 2018) and Life and Letters of John Bacchus Dykes (Wipf and Stock, 2021). Further scholarly writings have been published in Tempo, Notes (MLA), Journal of Victorian Culture, The American Organist, The Organ, Church History, and Interpreting Historical Keyboard Music (Ashgate). He has edited critical editions of Samuel Barber (2 vv) (G. Schirmer), Carl Czerny (2 vv), John Goss (A-R Editions), Ernest Bloch, Corelli-Czerny, Robert Papperitz, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Ut Orpheus Edizioni), and volumes 1 and 7 of the Edward Elgar Complete Edition. He is also the editor of the series English Organ Sonatas (Ut Orpheus Edizioni). 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 together with performances by the Harvard University Choir.
He 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.
His 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 (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); Vincent Persichetti Organ Works (Naxos), Zoltán Kodály Organ Works with works of Dohnányi, Novák, Sokola, Wiedermann. The choir and organists of Selwyn College, Cambridge 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 matutina with the Durham University Chamber Choir on Songs of Praise. This episode examined the life of the Venerable Bede and was filmed on The Holy Island of Lindisfarne.
Quinn is the principal faculty advisor for the installation of the Rockwood Organ in Opperman Music Hall to be built by Paul Fritts & Co. Organ Builders of Tacoma, Washington.
Members of the University Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Jiménez, Music Director
Violin 1
Jean-Luc Cataquet‡
Madelyne Garnot
MaryKatherine Brown
Gabriel Guzman
Keat Zhen Cheong
Alyssa Donall
Hope Welsh
Violin 2
Anna Kirkland*
Elizabeth Milan
Bailey Bryant
Hayden Green
Mari Stanton
Sarita Thosteson
Harshul Mulpuru
Delaney Reilly
Viola
Abby Felde*
Tyana McGann
Keara Henre
Maya Johnson
Cello
Turner Sperry*
Noah Hays
Abigail Fernandez de Castro
Lucas Ponko
Natalie Taunton
Ryan Wolff
Bass
Maximilian Levesque*
Christian Maldonado
Timpani
Ian Guarraia
Orchestra Manager
Melody Quiroga
Stage Manager
Carlos Mendez
Librarian
Guilherme Rodrigues
Administrative Assistant
Chelsea Blomberg
‡ Concertmaster * Principal