Organist Hans Davidsson and the Princeton Seminary Singers Perform Works by German Baroque Composers at Princeton Seminary October 20

Princeton, NJ, October 13, 2006–Hans Davidsson, professor of organ and project director of the Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, will present the Joe. R. Engle Organ Concert at Princeton Theological Seminary at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 20 in Miller Chapel on the Seminary campus. 

The Princeton Seminary Singers wil also perform in the concert, which will highlight composers of the German Baroque, including Weckmann, Buxtehude, and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Davidsson received his soloist diploma from the Conservatory of Göteborg, Sweden, in 1985. In 1991 he received the first doctorate in music performance in Sweden after defending his thesis, “Matthias Weckmann: the Interpretation of His Organ Music.” He has taught organ at the School of Music at Göteborg University, established an organ center for research in performance practice, was the director of the Göteborg Organ Art Center, is currently its general artistic and research director, and is the artistic director of the Göteborg International Organ Academy. He was awarded the Åforsk research prize in 2001, one of Sweden's most distinguished research awards, and was awarded the King's medial, the highest national award in Sweden, for “significant accomplishments in musicology and music, primarily in the fields of organ research and organ education” in 2004.

Davidsson gives regular recitals in the Scandinavian countries, as well as in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States.

The concert will showcase the many voices of the Seminary’s Joe R. Engle Organ, a two-manual pipe organ built by Paul Fritts and Company and installed in 2000. It is open to the public free of charge, through a generous endowment given by Seminary benefactor Joe R. Engle. For more information, call 609.497.7890.