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Bach & Buxtehude Henry Lebedinsky, Paul Fritts Baroque Organ

Enjoy virtuosic concerts, each exploring the connections between Johann Sebastian Bach and his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors, performed by young master organists on the magnificent Paul Fritts Baroque Organ in the Church of the Ascension, 2330 Viewmont Way, Seattle (Magnolia).

Watch the organist playing right in front of you! No sitting side-saddle or craning your neck to see the organist in a loft!!

THE PROGRAM.

Dietrich Buxtehude, Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV 148

Johann Sebastian Bach, Two Chorale Preludes

An Wasserflüßen Babylon, BWV 653
Jesus Christus unser Heiland, BWV 668

Moritz Brosig, Three Lenten Chorales

Herzlich tut mich verlangen
O Traurigkeit, O Herzelied
Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir

Johann Ernst Bach, Fantasia and Fugue in F major

J. S. Bach, Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537

Johannes Brahms, Prelude and Fugue on "O Traurigkeit, O Herzelied"

Brosig, Fantasia No. 3 in D minor, Op. 55

ENCORE: Buxtehude, Fantasia on Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223

THE SOLOIST.

Historical keyboardist, conductor, and composer Henry Lebedinsky has been bringing people together through music for the past twenty-five years. He performs on harpsichord, organ, clavichord, and historical pianos with Pacific MusicWorks, the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Cantata Collective, Sonoma Bach, and the Spire Ensemble. He has also played with Seattle Opera, The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, The Charlotte Symphony, Seraphic Fire, and Boston Revels. Henry is the co-director of the acclaimed Bay Area band Agave Baroque, with which he has released two albums featuring countertenor Reginald L. Mobley on the VGo Recordings label. With Mr. Mobley, he has performed programs featuring 200 years of music by Black composers for audiences from Massachusetts to Morocco. As an organist, he has been featured on American Public Medias Performance Today and has performed live on APMs Pipedreams.

Henry is the founder and director of the ATTUNED concert series at the California Jazz Conservatory and Pacific MusicWorks Underground concerts, dedicated to bringing Baroque and Classical music to places where people gatherfrom brewpubs to wineries and other fun, informal venuescreating experiences that appeal to both seasoned concertgoers and first-timers alike. Now in its fifth season, the Underground offers over 40 boozy, high-spirited, multimedia-driven shows a season across the greater Seattle metro area.

An avid composer of music for choir and organ, Henrys sacred music is published by Paraclete Press, Carus-Verlag Stuttgart, and CanticaNOVA. He served as a music critic for FANFARE Magazine and is currently editing the complete works of Italian nun composer Isabella Leonarda for Cor Donato Editions. When not at a keyboard instrument, he plays guitar and bouzouki with several Celtic traditional music bands including The Beggar Boys, who were featured in National Public Radios syndicated holiday special A Celtic Christmas from Biltmore Estate with Kathy Mattea. Henry holds degrees from Bowdoin College and the Longy School of Music, where he earned a Master of Music in historical organ performance as a student of Peter Sykes. He currently serves as Outreach Director for Pacific MusicWorks and as Organist and Choirmaster at Seattles historic Christ Episcopal Church. For more information see www.henrylebedinsky.com.