Wednesday, July 21 at 12: 30 pm - Julie Vidrick Evans
Director of Music, Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC
PROGRAM
Trio Sonata III in D minor (bwv 527) - J. S. Bach
Sonata I in F minor - Felix Mendelssohn
My Lord What A Morning - Raymond Haan
Fugue sur le nom d’Alain - Maurice Durufle.
An active recitalist, Julie Evans has been featured soloist with The Washington Bach Consort, Bach Sinfonia, Masterworks Chorus, and Thomas Circle Singers and has been heard in venues which include The Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Trinity Church and St. Thomas Church, New York City, Washington National Cathedral, Princeton University Chapel, St. Philip’s Cathedral in Atlanta, as well as concerts in California, Colorado, and Eastern Europe.
Ms. Evans has won First Prize in the North Carolina National, the National Federation of Music Clubs and The Chicago American Guild of Organists National Organ Playing Competition and was awarded the Individual Artist Award in Instrumental Performance by The Maryland State Arts Council.
She was the first organist to perform all six of J.S.Bach’s Trio Sonatas for Organ (BWV 525-530) as part of the annual Bach Marathon held at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church and at The Eleventh Grace Church Bach Festival, Grace Church, Georgetown.
The Washington Post describes her playing as “giving meaningful tonal and emotional character to each movement… She gave a sense of magnitude and individual subjectivity to all six sonatas.”
Ms. Evans earned a Master of Music from The Catholic University of America as a student of Wojciech Wojtasiewicz and a Bachelor of Music from James Madison University as a student of Richard McPherson.
She has held positions as Choral Conductor-in-Residence at American University, Washington, D.C. and as Associate Conductor of Masterworks Chorus (now The National Philharmonic Chorale).
Ms. Evans has served the American Guild of Organists as clinician, recitalist, Dean, and Trichapter Chair. Currently she is Co-Chair of the Committee for New Music and Executive Assistant for the 2010 National AGO Convention and is Director of Music at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.
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