Lunchtime Pipe Organ Series: Mark Howe
Wed, Nov 02
|Epsilon Spires
The Vermont Chapter of the American Guild of Organists named Mark Howe Artist of the Year for 2013-14. In Vermont, he has performed as organ soloist with the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and has given lecture-recitals at UVM.
Time & Location
Nov 02, 2022, 12:00 PM – Nov 03, 2022, 1:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Mark Howe has been Organist and Choirmaster of St. Paul’s Cathedral (Episcopal) in Burlington since 1999. A native of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, he moved at age 6 to Providence, Rhode Island, where he had his first piano lessons with Dorothy Joslin Pearce and his first organ lessons with T. James Hallan; nine years later, he moved to Springfield, Vermont, and studied organ with Harriette Slack Richardson. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Church Music at Westminster Choir College, where his organ teacher was William Hays; his Master’s degree in organ is from the Yale School of Music (through the Institute of Sacred Music), where his teacher was Thomas Murray. Later, Mark earned a Ph. D. in musicology at NewYork University, where he wrote a dissertation on a unique Renaissance manuscript of sacred music housed in Aachen, Germany.
Mark has performed as organist in the New England states, New York, New…