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Upcoming Events:
Date TBA (after 7 June 2009): Kevin Bowyer performs the European première of Tikker’s Sequentia: Dies Iræ (Introduction & Passacaglia for Organ) on the Willis organ at Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, Scotland. Also on the program are works by Dieter Buwen, Gabriel Erkoreka, Joe Hallman, Alistair Hinton, David Sheinfeld, and the world première of Wave by Iain Matheson.
Recent Concerts:
17 October 2009, 8:00 PM: Mr. Tikker performs on the Wolff organ in Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, as part of the Kalamazoo Bach Festival. He will be joined by soprano Deborah Friauff and an ensemble of period-style instruments, performing Bach’s Cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82a. Tikker will also perform solo organ works of Bach, Mendelssohn and Messiaen. This concert is repeated at Eastern Michigan University, Alexander Music Building room 125, Sunday, 18 October at 3:00 PM.
10 February 2009, 7:30 PM: Timothy Tikker joins Scott Elsholz and James Wagner in an organ faculty recital at Pease Auditorium, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti. Tikker will perform works of Mendelssohn and Messiaen.
26 October 2008 at 5:00 pm (following Evensong): along with organists David Enos and Janice Beck, Mr. Tikker performs works of Olivier Messiaen in honor of the composer’s centennial, at the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, Detroit, Michigan.
18 July, 8:00 PM: Organist Joseph Adam, performing at St. James Cathedral, Seattle, Washington, in the concluding concert of the 2008 National Convention of the Organ Historical Society; includes the world première of Tikker’s Divinum Mysterium, commissioned for this event, as well as a performance of his Variations sur un vieux Noël.
14 June, 8:00 PM: Baccalaureate at Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan; prelude and postlude of Carnatic (South Indian classical) music performed on organ, in collaboration with graduating senior Rohan Krishnamurthy, acclaimed virtuoso on the mridangam (double-headed hand-drum). See a video on YouTube of part of this performance.
16 March, 2008, 5:30 PM: Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue, University of Rochester, New York; features the US première of Peter Bannister’s Menorah.
5 March, 12:15 PM: University of Michigan School of Public Health (SPH I) Community Meeting Room; corner of Observatory and Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
29 February, 12:05 PM: First Congregational Church, corner of State and Williams Streets, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
30 September, 2007; 8:00 PM: Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Lecture-Recital featuring the first American performance of Debout sur le Soleil by Jean-Louis Florentz; assisted by Deborah Friauff.
Recent Publications:
A recording of the world-première performance of Divinum Mysterium: Solemn Meditation by organist Joseph Adam on the 4-CD album of highlights of the 2008 Organ Historical Society National Convention (see disc 3).
An anecdote in the new book Organ-isms: Anecdotes from the World of the King of Instruments by Jenny Setchell.
“Appariation de l’Église Éternelle,” review of Paul Festa’s DVD, in the March 2009 issue of The American Organist.
“Messiaen Plays Messiaen,” article in the November 2008 issue of The American Organist. Here is the promised link to this article’s supplement, a PDF file describing the mixture compositions of the organ at l’Église de la Sainte Trinité, Paris, France: Messiaen Article Supplement (final revision)
Three Bulgarian Dances: Intermediate Études for Harpsichord, in Aliénor Harpsichord Competition: the 2000 Winners, Wayne Leupold Editions WL 600233, 2007.