David A. Weadon Memorial Organ Concert at Princeton Theological Seminary

Princeton, NJ, February 12, 2007–Joan Lippincott, one of America’s outstanding organ virtuosos, will perform, along with the Princeton Seminary Singers, some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most beloved organ works in a concert on the Joe R. Engle Organ in Princeton Seminary’s Miller Chapel on Sunday, February 25 at 3:00 p.m. The choir and audience will join in the singing of seasonal chorales, and the concert will begin with a brief Lenten prayer service.

Lippincott has extensively toured throughout Europe and Canada. She has been a featured recitalist at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, at the Spoleto USA Festival, at The American Bach Society Biennial, at the Dublin (Ireland) International Organ Festival, and at conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society, and the Music Teachers National Association.

Her many recordings on the GOTHIC label include music of Bach, Duruflé, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Widor, Alain, and Pinkham on major American organs. The most recent releases are Sinfonia (Organ Concertos and Sinfonias of J.S. Bach with instrumental ensemble) on the Engle Organ at Princeton Seminary, J.S. Bach Preludes and Fugues recorded at Pacific Lutheran University, and Clavierübung III and Schübler Chorales at Princeton Seminary.

She was principal university organist at Princeton University from 1993–2000, and for many years has been professor of organ at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and former head of the Organ Department at Westminster.

A graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she was a student of Alexander McCurdy, Lippincott also studied at Union Theological Seminary and Princeton Seminary. She is on the advisory board of The American Bach Society, an honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota, and has received the Alumni Merit Award, the Distinguished Merit Award, and an honorary doctorate from Westminster Choir College.

This concert is presented in memory of David A. Weadon, the late director of music and organist at Princeton Seminary. It is free of charge, and made possible by the David A. Weadon Memorial Trust. Please call the Chapel Office at 609.497.7890 for more information.

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812 as the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. It is the largest Presbyterian seminary in the country, with more than 700 students in seven graduate degree programs.