Thomas Gaynor plays a Halloween recital on the world's largest pipe organ!

Thomas Gaynor plays a Halloween recital on the world's largest pipe organ!

Thomas Gaynor plays the World’s Largest Pipe Organ. Thomas will presents a special Halloween program with many favorites that will be sure to thrill and chill you! 

Program:
Toccata in D minor, BWV565 - J. S.
Bach Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns, arr. Gaynor, Horowitz, Lemare Phantom of the Opera medley, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Arr. Gaynor

Winner of the first and audience prizes in the 2017 St Albans International Organ Competition, and first prizes in the Third International Bach-Liszt Organ Competition in Erfurt/Weimar, Germany, the Sydney International Organ Competition and the Fort Wayne National Organ Playing competition, as well as being second prize winner in the Miami International Organ Competition, Thomas Gaynor is rapidly making his mark on the organ scene in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. He is a doctoral student in David Higgs’s studio at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he was recently awarded the highly coveted Artist’s Certificate – an honor the institution had not given an organist for nearly three decades.

Born in New Zealand, Thomas was Richard Prothero Organ Scholar at Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul for a number of years before being granted the title of Honorary Sub-Organist. His teachers included Douglas Mews for organ and harpsichord repertoire, Michael Fulcher for organ and church music, and Judith Clark CNZM for Piano. He later held the Maxwell Fernie Scholarship at St Mary of the Angels church in Wellington. 

An aspiring concert organist, Thomas has studied in masterclasses and workshops with many of this generation’s most influential organists, including Edoardo Bellotti, Michel Bouvard, Cameron Carpenter, James David Christie, Ken Cowan, Olivier Latry, Nathan Laube, Jean-Baptiste Robin, Jaques Van Oortmerssen, Stephen Tharp, Thomas Trotter and Harald Vogel. He can be heard frequently in solo and collaborative recitals across the USA, as well as in Australasia. Recent and upcoming projects include a complete performance of Bach’s Clavierübung III, Mahler’s Rückert Lieder and Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical songs with Baritone, Jarrett Logan Porter, and concert featuring Liszt’s ‘Ad Nos’ paired with a transcription of the first act of Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète, complete with soloists and chorus.

WE RELY ON YOUR DONATIONS to continue the restoration of the organs at Boardwalk Hall and to continue to present our streamed recitals!

To donate please visit https://www.boardwalkorgans.org

Donations can be mailed to:
Historic Organ Restoration Committee
2301 Boardwalk Atlantic City, NJ 08401

Historic Organ Restoration Committee is presenting these recitals as part of an ongoing broadcast series of the organs of Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall so that patrons can still enjoy the instruments while remaining socially distant.

The recital is made possible in part by funds from the Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Nathan L. Bryson
Curator of Pipe Organs at Boardwalk Hall
Historic Organ Restoration Committee
2301 Boardwalk
Atlantic City, NJ 08401