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Trinity Organ Concert - Joel Kumro
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMLocation: NaveJoin us on October 6th at noon for a varied program from Bach’s predecessors, Bach himself, and several composers who carried on his traditions. The program will feature Mendelssohn’s third organ sonata and Bruhns’ Praeludium in E minor.
About our performer
Joel S. Kumro received an undergraduate music degree from SUNY Buffalo State and studied organ privately with Margaret Harper at the Eastman School of Music. He received a Master of Arts in Liturgical Music from Saint John’s University in Collegeville MN, where he studied organ with Kim Kasling, voice with Carolyn Finley, chant with Fr. Anthony Ruff, and conducting with Axel Theimer.
Joel is the Choirmaster and Organist at Saint Benedict Catholic Church in Richmond, VA. In addition to planning music for all liturgical celebrations and directing choirs of both adults and children, he also coordinates the parish concert series and is the instructor of Liturgical Music at Saint Benedict Catholic School.
Performing frequently as an organist, tenor, and harpsichordist, Joel has appeared with organizations including the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, the Richmond and Twin Cities Chapters of the American Guild of Organists, Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians, RVA Baroque, Richmond Concert Chorale, Central Virginia Masterworks Chorale, Forgotten Clefs, Camerata di Sant’ Antonio, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus. In 2012, he was a featured soloist for the dedication ceremony of the new Robert H. Jackson U.S. Courthouse in Buffalo, NY. In 2018, he assisted in conducting the modern premiere of Michel Richard de Lalande’s grand motet Ad Te Domino Clamabo, S. 64, with RVA Baroque. He has been a featured recitalist for annual conventions of NPM in 2018 and 2020.
