TGIF, Feb 23, 5:30pm

For our Friday concert, we are delighted to have Margaret-Mary Sauppé on the organ, playing music by Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and George Baker. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm and the concert begins at 5:30pm. The concert is free with donations accepted.

Program

Offertoire pour le Jour de Pâques Op. 38 No. 10 by Alexandre Pierre François Boëly (1785-1858)

The Young Prince & The Young Princess from Scheherazade Op 33 (1888) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) transcribed Margaret-Mary Sauppé (b. 1995)

L’Envoi by George Baker (b. 1971)

Margaret-Mary Sauppé

Margaret-Mary Sauppé (née Owens) earned her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) and Master of Music (MM) in Organ Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY after studying with Nathan Laube, William Porter, Anne Laver, Edoardo Bellotti, and Lisa Crawford. Her primary research has involved the keyboard works of Sir William Herschel, partially published in the Organ Historical Society’s journal The Tracker (Oct 2023). Previous academic work has involved “The Combination of Digital Communications: Music and the Telegraph in the 19th Century” (2016) and being research assistant to Iain Quinn’s editions of John Goss: Complete Anthems (2015) and [Arcangelo] Corelli’s Twelve Solos [Sonatas, op. 5], (2015). In April 2023, she performed her international debut on the 1746 Hildebrandt “Bach” organ in Naumburg, Germany, which was broadcast on the Belgian internet radio Organroxx.

Some of her awards include academic scholarships from the Eastman School of Music and The Florida State University (2013-2022), several travel and research grants through the Eastman School of Music and the Rochester chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) (2023, 2020), the Clarence R. Warrington Organ Scholarship (2019-2022), a research grant from the Organ Historical Society (OHS) (2020), and an OHS Biggs Fellowship (2016). Dr. Sauppé has participated in masterclasses led by Raul Prieto-Ramirez, Michel Bouvard, Arvid Gast, Renée Anne Louprette, Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, Iain Quinn, James Kibbie, and William Porter. From 2011-2013, she maintained a private piano studio, and since 2013, she has held multiple positions on the boards of the Tallahassee FL, Rochester NY, and Albuquerque NM AGO chapters. While at Eastman, Sauppé assisted in the production of the Rochester Celebrity Organ Recital Series (RCORS), the Third Thursdays with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery concert series, and she founded her own monthly concert series First Fridays at St. Mary’s in 2020. She is currently Organist and Music Director at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church in Los Alamos, NM.