Concert organist Susan Jane Matthews has performed throughout the United States and in Europe, including solo organ recitals at the Washington National Cathedral; St.-Sulpice, Paris; and the Himmerod Abbey, Germany. She has been featured on the radio programs Pipedreams, Organ Loft, and With Heart and Voice.
She is currently Director of Music at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Burlingame, California where she serves as organist, director of the Chancel Choir, and founding director of the St. Paul’s Choir School for boys and girls, the latter affiliated with the Royal School of Church Music. She has served as Director of Music at St. Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral, Boise, Idaho and as Principal Organist of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.
During her four-year tenure at Grace Cathedral from 2001 through 2005, she performed frequently at the Alexander Memorial organ, now boasting some 125 ranks and 7,466 pipes, first built by the Aeolian-Skinner organ company of Boston in 1934.
- Venue: Grace Cathedral
- Date: Sun March 14, 2010 4:00pm
- City: San Francisco
- Price Range: free-will donation
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Program
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV 532
Petr Eben
Moto Ostinato from Sonntagsmusik
Maurice Duruflé
Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d’ALAIN, Opus 7
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings
Alexander Guilmant
Finale from Sonata 1
Performers
Susan Jane Matthews
Organist
