David A. Weadon Memorial Organ Concert at Princeton Seminary

Princeton, NJ, March 7, 2008–John Kitchen, senior lecturer and university organist at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland, will perform with the Seminary Singers in an organ concert celebrating the Octave of Easter. The concert will take place on Sunday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Miller Chapel and is free and open to the public.

Kitchen teaches in the areas of harmony, counterpoint, keyboard skills, history, and performance practice at all levels. He previously served as lecturer in music and university organist at the University of St. Andrews. A graduate of Glasgow University, Kitchen went to Cambridge to research seventeenth-century French harpsichord music. While there he was organ scholar of Clare College and studied the organ with Gillian Weir.

An active performer, Kitchen is a member of several ensembles and gives many solo recitals, both in the United Kingdom and overseas. He is also conductor of the Edinburgh University Singers and organist of Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh. He was appointed Edinburgh city organist in December 2002, with promotional and curatorial duties attached to the restored 1913 Norman and Beard organ in the city’s Usher Hall. He records regularly for the BBC and has made many CD and other recordings.

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 or visit www.ptsem.edu.

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.