Please join us at National City Christian Church this Friday, September 6, at 12:15 p.m., as Music at Midday begins a new year of free weekly concerts that will inspire and uplift you. We are delighted to be welcoming organist Nicholas Will to perform a program of music by great French composers:
- Prelude and Fugue in E-flat – Camille Saint-Saëns
- Choral varié sur le thème du Veni Creator– Maurice Duruflé
- “Sicilienne” from Perlléas etMélisande – Gabriel Fauré
- Sonata No. 3 in C minor – Alexandre Guilmant
Nicholas Will is Director of Sacred Music at the Pittsburgh Oratory of St. Philip Neri. He has previously held positions at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary (Emmitsburg, MD), the Pontifical North American College (Rome), and Franciscan University of Steubenville. A graduate of Duquesne University and the Peabody Conservatory of Music with additional study at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Rome, Nicholas is a past winner of the André Marchal Award for Excellence in Organ Performance (Duquesne), the Dorothy DeCourt Prize in Organ (Peabody), the Young Organists’ Audition sponsored by the Pittsburgh Concert Society, and the Duquesne University Concerto Competition. He has performed as an organist, accompanist, and conductor throughout the United States and in Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Croatia, and Austria. His recordings as an organist and conductor have been released by Navona Records and Jade Music, and he is a published composer with CanticaNOVA Publications.
If you are unable to join us in person, you may view a livestream on our YouTube channel (Friends of National City Christian Church) or on our Facebook page (National City Christian Church). You may also view a recording afterwards at those same sites.