Wednesday, July 14 at 12:30 pm - Riyehee Hong
Director of Music and the Arts, Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral
PROGRAM
Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C - Dietrich Buxtehude
Praeludium and Canzona in D - Johann Heinrich Buttstett
Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Praeludium e-moll - Nicolaus Bruhns
Dr. Riyehee Hongis Director of Music and the Arts at Philadelphia Cathedral where she oversees all music and art programs as well as all the liturgies at the Cathedral and the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. She is also Artistic Director of the LeClair Ensemble, a group focused on 17th and 18th century French chamber music.
Dr Hong is also a recitalist and has performed numerous concerts in the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, and France. As a scholar, her article Lasceux, Bedos et Le Livre d’orgue de Michigan (1771-1772) has been included in Cahiers d’Artes consacré à Dom François Bedos de Celles, no. 2, 2006, France and her study and edition of a hitherto unattributed 18th-century manuscript has been accepted for publication by Wayne Leupold Editions. Recently a paper on “New source for French Post-Classical organ registration” was presented at the Keyboard Music and Colonial Philadelphia Conference in March at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA, and a lecture on “Journal de pieces d’orgue – Newly discovered organ music of Guillaume Lasceux” was presented at Colloque International Conferences at Bordeaux, France for the 300th anniversary of Dom Bedos de Celles.
She holds a DMA from the Moores School of Music, the University of Houston where she was a lecturer in Music History and Music Theory. She holds a Master of Music degree from Boston University where she was the Associate University Organist at Marsh Chapel where the services were broadcasted on WBGH radio. She also has a M. Div. from Hanshin University focused on Liturgy and Music, at B. Th. in Social Ethics from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.
For more information on this concert and other upcoming events at Cathedral, please call 215.386.0234 ext 104. Free will offering.