Organ Concert 'Bach's Heritage'

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Saturday, November 9th, 2019
7:00 PM

Saint Barnabas Church presents “Bach’s Heritage” with Christina Hutton playing the Brombaugh German Tracker Organ on Saturday, November 9, 7:30 pm. There will be a pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm.

Tickets: $20, $10 students available at Ivy’s Bookshop, church office and at the door. 

This inaugural concert in the St. Barnabas Early Music Organ Series kicks off with the brilliant Vancouver organist, Christina Hutten exploring the 17th-century musical influences on Bach. Christina will play works by Scheidemann, Heinrich Bach, Pachelbel, Böhm, and J.S. Bach, among others on the church's magnificent John Brombaugh baroque tracker chamber organ, copied after early German instruments, ca. 1620. Tuned in 1/5 comma meantone temperament, this organ is one of the finest in the city, as well as the country.

Christina Hutten organ & harpsichord Organist and harpsichordist has presented recitals in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including performances in concert series hosted by the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, the Hooglandsekerk in Leiden, Early Music Vancouver, the Universities of British Columbia and Calgary, and others. She performs regularly with Pacific Baroque Orchestra and has appeared as concerto soloist with the Okanagan Symphony, the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, and the Arizona State University Chamber Orchestra. She participated in the Britten-Pears Programme led by Andreas Scholl and Tamar Halperin, for which she was awarded the Loewen Prize, and is also active as a workshop and masterclass leader, giving presentations at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Canada’s National Music Centre, and Wilfrid Laurier University. Funded by a generous grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, she pursued historical keyboard studies in Europe with Francesco Cera, François Espinasse, and Bernard Winsemius. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Organ Performance from Arizona State University under the direction of Kimberly Marshall and an Advanced Certificate in Harpsichord Performance from the University of Toronto, where she studied with Charlotte Nediger. She is now a doctoral candidate in musicology at the University of British Columbia.