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Free Concert/Open to the Public: Renowned Organist Joan Lippincott to Perform at the Lawrenceville School October 16, 2010

Renowned Organist Joan Lippincott to Perform at the Lawrenceville School
Free Concert -- Open to the Public

Lawrenceville, N.J. -- The Lawrenceville School's historic Woods Family
Organ will sing again at a free concert, open to the public, on October 16,
2010, in the School's Edith Memorial Chapel, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Performing will be renowned musician Joan Lippincott, Professor Emerita of
Organ at Rider University's Westminster Choir College and former Princeton
University Principal Organist. She will play works by Johann Sebastian
Bach, Aaron Copland, William Mathias, Olivier Messsiaen, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, and Charles-Marie Widor. This concert will be given in celebration
of the Lawrenceville's School's Bicentennial anniversary. The Lawrenceville
School is located at 2500 Main Street in Lawrenceville, N.J.

The Woods Family Organ was restored in 2010 by Orgues Létourneau Limitée.
When new in 1968, it was claimed to be the largest modern mechanical action
pipe organ built in the United States. Restoration efforts included
rebuilding the organ's tracker key actions so as to greatly reduce the
physical effort required to play the instrument and to minutely adjust the
3,650 pipes to give the organ a bolder and warmer sound. The Organ is
located in the School's 115-year old Edith Memorial Chapel, which provides
a superb acoustic and atmospheric setting. Lawrenceville hosts concerts by
professional organists throughout the year and this magnificent instrument
is also available to student musicians.

Lippincott has been acclaimed as one of America’s outstanding organ
virtuosos.  She performs extensively in the United States under Karen
McFarlane Artists and has toured throughout Europe and Canada.  She has
been a featured recitalist at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New
York City, at the Spoleto USA Festival, at The American Bach Society
Biennial, at the Dublin (Ireland) International Organ Festival, and at
conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical
Society, and the Music Teachers National Association.  She has performed on
many of the most prominent organs in churches and universities throughout
the United States and Europe

Her many recordings on the GOTHIC label include music of Bach, Duruflé,
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Widor, Alain, and Pinkham on major American organs.
Lippincott presently devotes full time to performing and recording.  She
has served on summer faculties at the New England Conservatory of Music,
University of Wisconsin, the Montreat Conference, the Evergreen Conference,
and Bach Week at Columbia College.

A graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music and Westminster Choir College,
where she was a student of Alexander McCurdy, she also studied at Union
Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary.  She has been on
the Advisory Board of The American Bach Society, is an honorary member of
Sigma Alpha Iota, and has received the Alumni Merit Award, the
Distinguished Merit Award, the Williamson Medal, and an Honorary Doctorate
from Westminster Choir College.