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Sept. 5, 2014 – Christian Lane, winner of the 2011 Canadian International Organ Competition, will perform at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13 in Ford Chapel at Allegheny College. Admission is free.

The program ranges from J.S. Bach’s “Jig” Fugue and Toccata and Fugue in D Minor to Calvin Hampton’s “Lullaby” and John Knowles Paine’s “Variations on the Star Spangled Banner.” Works by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Franck, Sowerby and Cooman will also be included in the 65-minute program.

One of America’s most accomplished, respected and versatile young organists, Lane is also vice-president of the American Guild of Organists.

He performed a recital at this year’s national Guild convention. The American Organist calls him “a true artist whose gratifying musical maturity is demonstrated through playing that is suave, elegant, and exciting.”

Lane holds a bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, where his mentor and teacher was David Higgs. He completed graduate work with Thomas Murray as a Robert Baker Scholar at Yale University.

Lane has served within several of the United States’ most prominent parish music programs, including the Episcopal Churches of Trinity-on-the-Green in New Haven, Conn., and Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York City. From 2008 to 2014, he was associate university organist and choirmaster at Harvard University.

His concert at Allegheny College is supported by the Chapel Organ Recitals Fund established by Dr. Edward S. Hodgson Jr., Allegheny Class of 1947.

For more information call 814-587-3998.