from Dix Pièces pour Orgue (1890) Eugène Gigout Toccata (1844-1925)

Apparition de l’Église Éternelle (1932) Olivier Messiaen(1908-1992)

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1936) Samuel Barber (1910-1981)arr. William Strickland

Deux Danses à Agni Yavishta, JA 77 & 78 (1932) Jehan Alain(1911-1940)

from 24 Pièces de fantaisie: Troisième Suite, Op. 54 (1927) Louis Vierne Carillon de Westminster (1870-1937)

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Please hold all applause until the conclusion of the performance.If you must leave during the concert, kindly do so only at the conclusion of a work.

St. Patrick’s Cathedral“AmericA’s PArish church”

New York City

Daniel Brondel, Organ

Thank you to the supporters of the Friends of Music who make these concerts possible.Please visit our website to join or for more details at: www.saintpatrickscathedral.org/fom.We encourage you to email us feedback and suggestions about the Kilgen Organ Recital Series at: music@SaintPatricksCathedral.org.

Sunday, April 25, 20213:15 P.M.

Noted by The New York Times for playing the organ with flair, French-American musician Daniel Brondel is the Associate Director of Music at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, where he plays Masses each week that are streamed on the Internet and broadcast live on SiriusXM Satellite Radio. He is also the Associate Director of the Cathedral Choir, and he manages the organ recital series. He performs solo recitals in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Europe, and has also appeared as soloist in piano concertos of Mozart and Rachmaninoff, and organ concertos of Poulenc and Jongen.

Mr. Brondel is the Artistic Director of The Salvatones, a new vibrant professional choral ensemble based in New York City. He made his Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) debut in 2010 as narrator in a performance of Erik Satie’s Sports et divertissements. He has also

recorded and appeared regularly as countertenor soloist (Schnittke’s Requiem and Bach’s B-minor Mass) with Grammy-Award-winner Paul Halley, and has sung with the Gentlemen of the Choir of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. He has performed extensively in oratorios of Bach and Handel, and in opera, notably the lead role of Oberon in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Praised for a colorful timbre and an exceptionally wide vocal range, he is featured as solo sopranist in Aural Borealis, a CD recording by award-winning Publick Musick. His first solo-organ album, The Glory of the Organ, recorded at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in 2010 is available on the JAV label.

In 2015, Daniel was one of the organists during Vespers (Evening Prayer) at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Mass at Madison Square Garden both celebrated by Pope Francis.

A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where he studied organ with David Higgs and improvisation with Gerre Hancock and Rick Erickson, Mr. Brondel holds a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance. Mr. Brondel earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance cum laude from Georgia State University, Atlanta, where he studied piano with Geoffrey Haydon and organ with Sarah Martin. During his entire college career, he was a singer and French-diction coach for the Grammy-Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus, directed by Robert Shaw. Recipient of a grant from the Theodore Presser Foundation, several prestigious academic fellowships, and winner of various piano competitions, Daniel Brondel also won the First Prize at the 1996 Arthur Poister Competition and the Second Prize at the 1996 National Young Artist Competition in Organ Playing of the American Guild of Organists in New York City.

A native of southern France, Mr. Brondel has lived in the United States since 1988. He is a member of EastWest Organists, the American Guild of Organists, and the Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians.

His EminenceTimothy Cardinal Dolan

Archbishop of New York

Rev. Msgr. Robert T. Ritchie, Rector

Jennifer Pascual, DMA, Director of Music & OrganistDaniel Brondel, Associate Director of Music & Organist

Michael Hey, Assistant Director of Music & OrganistRobert M. Evers, Music Administrator & Programs Editor

Peragallo Pipe Organ Company, Organ Curators

Fifth Avenue at 50th Street · New York, NY 10022(212) 753-2261

www.saintpatrickscathedral.org

Thank you to the supporters of the Friends of Music who make these concerts possible.Please visit our website to join or for more details at: www.saintpatrickscathedral.org/fom