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Organ Recital by Chelsea Chen at MAPC: Sunday, December 12, 2004
4 pm in the Sanctuary

Recently deemed “extraordinary” in a review by The American Organist, twenty-year-old Chelsea Chen is a senior at The Juilliard School, a student of John Weaver and Paul Jacobs.

 

 

 

 

Ms. Chen was the first prize winner of the 2003 American Guild of Organists’ RCYO (Regional Competition for Young Organists) and recently performed at its national convention in Los Angeles. She has premiered works of Teddy Niedermaier in Paul Hall at Juilliard and her own Taiwanese Suite at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, San Diego. In 2004 Ms. Chen was chosen to be organ soloist with the Juilliard Percussion Ensemble at Alice Tully Hall.

Originally from San Diego, CA, Chelsea began studying piano at age five with Jane Bastien and later with Lori Bastien Vickers, winning many honors from the National Guild of Piano Teachers and Music Teachers Association of California. She began organ lessons five years ago with Leslie Wolf Robb and later with Monte Maxwell, organist at the U.S. Naval Academy. Since 1999, she has given benefit concerts each year for youth organizations, Heart to Heart International, Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the mission work of La Jolla Presbyterian Church.

Her MAPC program at 4 pm, Sunday, December 12, will begin with a short piece by Teddy Niedermaier entitled Lobe den Herren followed by Olivier Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur. You don’t want to miss hearing this extraordinarily gifted young artist. There is no charge for admission to the recital.

 

 

 

 

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