FREDERICK TEARDO - Saint Thomas Church

SAINT THOMAS CHURCH FIFTH AVENUE
THE REVEREND ANDREW C. MEAD, OBE, DD, Rector
JOHN SCOTT, LVO, D.Mus. Organist and Director of Music
FREDERICK TEARDO, Associate Organist
KEVIN KWAN, Assistant Organist
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ORGAN RECITAL SERIES
FREDERICK TEARDO
Sunday, 29 November 2009 at Five-fifteen o’clock
On the Loening-Hancock Organ:
The Schübler Chorales
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645
Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 646
Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 647
Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, BWV 648
Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649
Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter, BWV 650
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
from The Leipzig Chorales
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland à 2 claviers et pédale, BWV 659
Trio super: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland a due bassi e canto fermo, BWV 660
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland in organo pleno/il canto fermo nel pedale, BWV 661
On the Arents Memorial Organ:
Three Pieces for Organ (2000), based on poems by Stephen Crane
I. Black Riders
II. Here and There
III. Upon a High Place
Aaron Travers
(b. 1975)
FREDERICK TEARDO is Associate Organist at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in New York City, where he holds
primary responsibility for service playing, accompanying the Choir of Men and Boys, and training the Junior Choir. Prior
to this appointment, Mr. Teardo served as Assistant Organist at St. Thomas Church since September 2006. Mr. Teardo
received both the Master of Music and Master of Musical Arts degrees from the Yale School of Music and Institute of
Sacred Music. At Yale, he studied organ with Thomas Murray and harpsichord with Richard Rephann. During Mr.
Teardo’s time at Yale, he held the post of Yale University Chapel Organist, and later served as Assistant Organist at
Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green in New Haven, CT. Mr. Teardo received his Bachelor of Music degree with
Highest Honors from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he studied organ with David Higgs. His other
teachers have included Stephen Roberts and Haskell Thomson. He has also studied improvisation with William Porter and
Jeffrey Brillhart. An avid performer, Mr. Teardo has won first prize in numerous competitions and has performed across
the United States, including such venues as St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City, Grace Cathedral in San
Francisco, Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Trinity Church Copley Square in Boston, and Princeton University Chapel. He
has also been a featured performer at Regional and National Conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the
Organ Historical Society, on the NPR program Pipedreams, on BBC Radio 3 with the St. Thomas Choir, and in a segment
on the revived interest of the pipe organ on ABC World News Tonight.
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