2023-24 Season

California State University, Fresno • Concert Hall

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Jack Mitchener (organ)

Sunday, April 24, 2022 • 4:00PM
First Congregational Church
2131 N. Van Ness Boulevard, Fresno

Jack Mitchener has established himself as one of America’s leading concert organists bringing “music to life with supple rhythmic control, clear phrasing, energy, and sensitivity” (The American Organist). He enjoys a thriving international performance career that includes appearances in such notable venues as St. Thomas Church in New York City, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, the Church of St. Augustine in Vienna, Jacobikirche in Lübeck, Germany, and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.

Co-sponsored with the San Joaquin Valley Chapter, American Guild of Organists.

Concert Program

LÜBECK
Praeambulum in E Major, LübWV 7
HÄNDEL
Air with Variations “The Harmonious Blacksmith”
from Suite in E Major, HWV 430
J.S. BACH
Chorale Prelude on “Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr”, BWV 662
Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532
ALAIN
Litanies, JA 119 from Trois Pièces (1937)
SANDRESKY
Excerpts from the Organ Mass “L’homme armé” (1979)
MENDELSSOHN
Sonata in F minor, Op.65 No.1