St. Alban’s Concert schedule 2023–2024
Friday, December 1, 2023, 7:00 p.m.: Bálint Karosi
Sunday, March 3, 2024, 3:00 p.m.: Stephen Keyl
Sunday, April 14, 2024, 3:00 p.m.: Carolyn Smith
Biographies of the artists appear below.
For St. Alban’s-sponsored concerts, admission is by donation. The amount is up to you.
St. Alban’s also hosts concerts sponsored by other organizations such as True Concord, Arizona Early Music, and Sonoran Bells. For information about these events, contact the sponsoring organizations.
Sunday, March 3, 2024, 3:00 p.m.: Stephen Keyl
Sunday, April 14, 2024, 3:00 p.m.: Carolyn Smith
Biographies of the artists appear below.
For St. Alban’s-sponsored concerts, admission is by donation. The amount is up to you.
St. Alban’s also hosts concerts sponsored by other organizations such as True Concord, Arizona Early Music, and Sonoran Bells. For information about these events, contact the sponsoring organizations.
Friday, December 1, 2023, 7:00 p.m.: Bálint Karosi (St. Peter’s Church, New York City)
Bálint Karosi has been Cantor and Director of Music at Saint Peter’s Church in New York City since 2015. After winning the 2008 Bach Prize in Leizpig, Bálint has been in demand as a recitalist and clinician worldwide and widely known and respected for his interpretation of Bach’s music and his Baroque-inspired improvisations. His recording portfolio of albums on the Hungaroton label includes his original orchestral works, and thirteen albums of the complete works for organ by J. S. Bach. Bálint was appointed to the faculty of the Organ Department at the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre, and Dance where, as visiting Lecturer, he will teach organ literature, church music, and improvisation starting August 2023.
Dr. Karosi’s compositions include the reconstruction of Bach’s lost St. Mark’s Passion, four organ concerti, two operas, and cantatas, choral, orchestral, and instrumental works. His eight volumes of organ works are published by the Leupold Foundation. His Toccata in Memory of Bartók was the compulsory work for the 2022 NYACOP competition, his Kodály Triptych won the first prize of the Hungarian Philharmonia’s 2022 composition competition, and in 2023 his organ concerto Syöjätär was awarded the Kaija Saarijaho prize and the prize of the Finnish National Composer Award in Helsinki, Finland.
Bálint studied at the Liszt Academy in his native Budapest, Hungary, the Conservatoire Superieure in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. He earned his DMA in composition at the Yale School of Music in 2017.
www.karosi.org
Bálint Karosi is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.
Sunday, March 3, 2024, 3:00 p.m.: Stephen Keyl
Stephen Keyl studied organ with Fenner Douglass, Andrew Clarke, and Robert G. Barrow. He received a Ph.D. in musicology from Duke University with a dissertation on the Renaissance organist Arnolt Schlick. He has published articles in Early Music and Imago Musicæ, and was a contributor to the 2000 revision of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Dr. Keyl served for ten years on the faculty of the University of Arizona School of Music and has been Director of Music at St. Alban’s since 1995.
Sunday, April 14, 2024, 3:00 p.m.: Carolyn Smith
Carolyn was born into a musical family where the boys played the trumpet and the girls piano, often performing and accompanying trumpet trios, duets and solos. Also interested in science, Carolyn completed undergraduate studies in Medical Technology at the University of Arizona. While working in Microbiology at Tucson Medical Center, she returned to UA for advanced music training. For seven years she studied organ with Dr. Roy Johnson, who was a beloved guide and mentor for her. At the same time she was hired as organist of First Evangelical Free Church in Tucson, giving concerts and eventually serving as Dean of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. During summers she attended and participated in many workshops and masterclasses abroad, including in France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany (particularly in Leipzig), and at the Royal School of Church Music in England.
After moving to the United Kingdom, Carolyn earned a Master of Music degree from the University of East Anglia in conjunction with Cambridge University, studying organ in the College Chapels of Cambridge and Norwich Cathedral with Anne Page and doing research at the famous Cambridge Library. She completed her dissertation on The English Hymn Prelude of the Twentieth Century. She also served as Secretary, and later President of the Peterborough and District Organists’ Association (UK), and has performed concerts in England, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
Carolyn has been employed at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Northwest Tucson since 2009 as Organist and Accompanist of the Chancel Choir.
Bálint Karosi has been Cantor and Director of Music at Saint Peter’s Church in New York City since 2015. After winning the 2008 Bach Prize in Leizpig, Bálint has been in demand as a recitalist and clinician worldwide and widely known and respected for his interpretation of Bach’s music and his Baroque-inspired improvisations. His recording portfolio of albums on the Hungaroton label includes his original orchestral works, and thirteen albums of the complete works for organ by J. S. Bach. Bálint was appointed to the faculty of the Organ Department at the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre, and Dance where, as visiting Lecturer, he will teach organ literature, church music, and improvisation starting August 2023.
Dr. Karosi’s compositions include the reconstruction of Bach’s lost St. Mark’s Passion, four organ concerti, two operas, and cantatas, choral, orchestral, and instrumental works. His eight volumes of organ works are published by the Leupold Foundation. His Toccata in Memory of Bartók was the compulsory work for the 2022 NYACOP competition, his Kodály Triptych won the first prize of the Hungarian Philharmonia’s 2022 composition competition, and in 2023 his organ concerto Syöjätär was awarded the Kaija Saarijaho prize and the prize of the Finnish National Composer Award in Helsinki, Finland.
Bálint studied at the Liszt Academy in his native Budapest, Hungary, the Conservatoire Superieure in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. He earned his DMA in composition at the Yale School of Music in 2017.
www.karosi.org
Bálint Karosi is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.
Sunday, March 3, 2024, 3:00 p.m.: Stephen Keyl
Stephen Keyl studied organ with Fenner Douglass, Andrew Clarke, and Robert G. Barrow. He received a Ph.D. in musicology from Duke University with a dissertation on the Renaissance organist Arnolt Schlick. He has published articles in Early Music and Imago Musicæ, and was a contributor to the 2000 revision of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Dr. Keyl served for ten years on the faculty of the University of Arizona School of Music and has been Director of Music at St. Alban’s since 1995.
Sunday, April 14, 2024, 3:00 p.m.: Carolyn Smith
Carolyn was born into a musical family where the boys played the trumpet and the girls piano, often performing and accompanying trumpet trios, duets and solos. Also interested in science, Carolyn completed undergraduate studies in Medical Technology at the University of Arizona. While working in Microbiology at Tucson Medical Center, she returned to UA for advanced music training. For seven years she studied organ with Dr. Roy Johnson, who was a beloved guide and mentor for her. At the same time she was hired as organist of First Evangelical Free Church in Tucson, giving concerts and eventually serving as Dean of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. During summers she attended and participated in many workshops and masterclasses abroad, including in France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany (particularly in Leipzig), and at the Royal School of Church Music in England.
After moving to the United Kingdom, Carolyn earned a Master of Music degree from the University of East Anglia in conjunction with Cambridge University, studying organ in the College Chapels of Cambridge and Norwich Cathedral with Anne Page and doing research at the famous Cambridge Library. She completed her dissertation on The English Hymn Prelude of the Twentieth Century. She also served as Secretary, and later President of the Peterborough and District Organists’ Association (UK), and has performed concerts in England, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
Carolyn has been employed at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Northwest Tucson since 2009 as Organist and Accompanist of the Chancel Choir.