Renowned Organist and Composer Aaron David Miller to Perform at Princeton Seminary October 26

Princeton, NJ, October 23, 2007–Aaron David Miller, renowned concert organist and composer, will present the Joe. R. Engle Organ Concert at Princeton Theological Seminary at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, October 26 in Miller Chapel on the Seminary campus. 

A concert of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs for organ, choir, and congregation will be performed.

Miller is currently the music director at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was awarded the top prize in improvisation at the American Guild of Organists National Convention in New York in 1996, won the Bach and improvisation prizes at the Calgary International Organ Festival and Competition in 1998, the 1999 Helen Cohn Award for Music Research for his study of late Medieval and Renaissance keyboard music, and the 2004 Hellenikon Idyllion  Composition Prize offered by the Olympic Committee in Athens, Greece.

His performances have been heard on National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Pipe Dreams, and the Zurich Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and Toledo Symphony have performed his compositions.

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. The concert 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.

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812, 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.