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Ocean Grove Presents "Holiday Encores" To Conclude Summer Organ Recital Series

originally published: 08/16/2017

Ocean Grove Presents "Holiday Encores" To Conclude Summer Organ Recital Series(OCEAN GROVE, NJ) -- Concluding Ocean Groves’ summer organ recital series, OGCMA will present “Holiday Encores,” featuring Organist-In-Residence Gordon Turk, pianist Hugh Sung and tenor Ronald Naldi, on Monday, September 4, 2017 at 7:00pm in the Great Auditorium.  Tickets are $13.  

“For Holiday Encores, we’ve selected beautiful, lush and romantic pieces that showcase the wonderful talents of Hugh Sung and Ronald Naldi,” says Gordon Turk.  The program features works by composers Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Edvard Grieg, Louis Lefebure-Wely and Franz Liszt, including: Debussy’s “Petite Suite” for piano and organ; Adagio,” the second movement of Ravel’s Concerto, arranged for piano and organ; Debussy’s “Romance,” for tenor, piano and organ; Songs about love and romance for tenor and piano by Debussy, Faure, and Grieg and two Neapolitan songs including "O Sole Mio"; Piano arrangements (Hugh Sung) of popular movie songs,  "A Thousand Years" and "Man of Steel"; and “Sortie” by Louis Lefebure-Wely, and “Liebestraume” by Franz Liszt, both transcribed as lush, dramatic versions for organ by Gordon Turk.

Tickets are available online at www.oceangrove.org, or call 800-590-4064.  The Great Auditorium is located at Pilgrim and Ocean Pathways in Ocean Grove, NJ.   All facilities are handicapped accessible.

About the Performers

Gordon Turk – Organist -- has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Russia, Ukraine, and Japan in concert halls, cathedrals, and universities in both solo performances and with orchestras. His collaborations with other musicians in chamber music concerts include principal instrumentalists from the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and other distinguished musicians. He has won awards for performances of J.S. Bach and in the national AGO Improvisation Competition. Dr. Turk is Organist-in Residence at the historic Ocean Grove Great Auditorium and Artistic Director of Ocean Grove’s Chamber Music Series, “Summer Stars.” Turk is a devoted champion of the pipe organ; a consultant for the building of new pipe organs and the restoration of historic ones; and is a frequent adjudicator of organ competitions. He is also the Organist and Choirmaster at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and serves on the faculty of Rowan University.



 
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Ronald Naldi – Tenor -- is an internationally acclaimed lyric tenor who has performed with The Metropolitan Opera, Verona Opera, Opera da Camera of Rome, L’Opera Francais, New Jersey State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Salzburger Landestheater. With St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble he has sung over 200 performances of Haydn, Mozart, Offenbach, Rieti, Bakst, Fioravanti, and Rossini. He has performed with over 25 symphony orchestras and has an extensive repertoire of more than 30 oratorios. Mr. Naldi has worked under the baton of the world’s most famous maestri and has been a colleague with such artists as Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. He studied with Charles Kullman, Margaret Harshaw, Licino Francardi, Luigi Ricci, Carol Bayard and William Riley; has a BM and MM in voice from Indiana University; and was a Fulbright scholar in Rome. He is the tenor soloist and artist-in-residence at OGCMA, where he is completing his 42nd consecutive season.

Hugh Sung – Pianist -- has been an active soloist and chamber musician ever since his debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 11. Two years later, he was accepted for studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, where his principal teachers included Eleanor Sokoloff, Jorge Bolet, and Seymour Lipkin, along with Karen Tuttle and Felix Galimir for chamber music. Throughout his studies and subsequent to graduating with a Bachelor of Music, Sung has performed in major cities throughout the Americas, England, Canada, South Africa, Japan, and Korea. Mr. Sung has been presented at some of the world's most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall, Wigmore Hall, The National Gallery of Art, and The Ravinia Festival. He has made several guest appearances on radio stations throughout New York City, Rochester, Philadelphia, and New Zealand, and was featured on NPR's nationally syndicated "Performance Today" performing works by Clementi, Ravel, and Mussorgksy. In addition, his concerto engagements have included performances with the Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, annual appearances with the Masterworks Festival Orchestra since 1998, and extensive tours with the South Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, he was presented on Japanese National Television NHK in collaboration with violinist Aaron Rosand during a recital in the esteemed Ouji Hall in the Ginza district of Tokyo.



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