Stephen Tharp

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Stephen Tharp (* 1970 ) is an American organist .

Stephen Tharp, 2019

Life

Tharp studied at Illinois College and Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) with Rudolf Zuiderveld and Wolfgang Rübsam and was a private student with Jean Guillou in Paris . From 1995 to 1997 Tharp was organist at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and from 1998 to 2002 associate organist at St. Bartholomew's Church there . During the 2013/2014 season he was artist-in-residence at Grace Church in Manhattan and since November 2014 he has been artist-in-residence at St. James' Church in New York City. In 2008 Tharp became the official organist for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. in New York and his organ playing was broadcast live on various television stations. Tharp is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World .

With more than 60 concert tours as a soloist and 1,600 concerts, Tharp is considered the concert organist of his generation who has toured the most and for the most part. Since 1987 it has been performed in many European countries, in Australia and the USA.

Tharp gave masterclasses at several universities in the USA, at the universities of music in Stuttgart, Trossingen and Bochum as well as at the American Guild of Organists (AGO). He was a jury member in competitions at the Juilliard School , Northwestern University and the Grand Prix de Chartres (2018).

Stephen Tharp is an important exponent of new organ music. He also gives numerous world premieres of compositions for the instrument. The first such piece was Jean Guillou's symphonic poem Instants, op. 57, which Tharp premiered at King's College (Cambridge, England) in February 1998. Several works were dedicated to him. In 1992 and 1995 he played the world premieres of works dedicated to him by Anthony Newman's Second Symphony and Morgan Simmons' Sequencia Pedalia . He himself transcribes works for the organ and is also active as a composer.

Tharp is also active as a chamber musician, giving concerts on the organ, piano and harpsichord with Thomas Hampson , Itzhak Perlman , Jennifer Larmore , Rachel Barton Pine, The American Boychoir (conductor: James Litton) and the St. Thomas Choir ( Directed by John Scott) at locations like Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.

Awards and honors

Among other things, he received the 2011 International Performer of the Year Award from the New York City Association of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and in May 2015 he received the Paul Creston Award.

Tharp won the German Record Critics' Prize in 2009 for his complete recording of Jeanne Demessieux's organ works .

In 2005 and 2011, American Public Media Pipedreams aired two full shows about his career.

Discography

Tharp has recorded fifteen solo organ CDs. His CD The complete works of Jeanne Demessieux 2009 was rated "5 Diapason" by the French journal Diapason and his CD Stephen Tharp plays St. Bavo, Haarlem, The Netherlands was named "one of the most beautiful organ CDs of 2009" by Resmusica in France designated.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. James' Church Madison Avenue . Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Steinmeyer organ Corpus Christi . Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  3. ^ Grandes Orgues de Chartre Association . Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  4. ↑ Stephen Tharp . Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  5. ^ Organist Stephen Tharp in concert . Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ https://actorschapel.org/paul-creston-award . Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  7. ↑ Record review : best list 2-2009 . Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  8. ↑ Stephen Tharp, 2011 Organist of the Year . American Public Media. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
  9. ↑ ResMusica: Haarlem n'est pas que le plus beau buffet du monde . Retrieved November 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Tharp, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American organist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970