)

Thank you for supporting the ASU
Organ Series.

BACH'S
FORMATIVE
INFLUENCES I

We're organizing another great
season for next year!

GEOFFREY HAR
WARD
ORGAN

A511.Herberger Institute
FOR DESIGN AND THE ARTS

ARIZONA
0 2009 ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts 0709

STATE

UNIVERSITY

Geoffrey Harris Ward is from
Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
He studied piano performance
at the Royal Conservatory of
Music in Toronto and earned
his Bachelor degrees in
trumpet performance and
education at Mount Allison
University in Sackville, New
Brunswick. Dr. Ward
completed the Master of
Music degree at Arizona State
University in Tempe, Arizona
before completing his
Doctorate in Musical Arts in
Organ Performance, Church
Music at the University of
Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas
While at Arizona State he
studi·ed with Robert Clark and
Kimberly Marshall.
Dr. Ward commenced his
duties as University Organist and Choirmaster at the University of the
South in July 2016. He is also on the faculty for the Department of Music
teaching organ and conducting lessons, directing the University Choir and
teaching courses in music history and theory. He came to Sewanee from
Memphis, Tennessee where he served Saint John's Episcopal Church and
was the Artistic Director of the Memphis Boy Choir Inc. for 10 years. He
also taught organ lessons at the University of Memphis. Geoffrey met his
wife Hilary in Kansas. She teaches in the Department of Music at the
University of the South and is the Assistant Director of the Sewanee
Summer Music Festival. They welcomed their son Harris to their family
shortly after moving to Sewanee in August 2016.
Dr. Ward has held many church positions including the Healey Willan
Organ Scholar at The Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Toronto,
Ontario . He has also conducted children's choir festivals 'in Arkansas and
worked as a coordinator of worship for the CREDO convocation in
Memphis, Tennessee.

Program

Toccata in F, BWV 540

Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685-1750)

Vater unser im himmelreich

Georg Bohm

(1661-1733)

Praeludium in g, BuxWV 149

Dieterich Buxtehude

(1637-1707)

AHein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr, BWV 662

Excerpts from Kyrie, livre d'orgue
Plein jeu
Fugue 5
Dialogue sur les Grands jeux

a

Prelude and fugue in E minor, BWV 548

Bach

Nicolas de Grigny

(1672-1703)

Bach

*****
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turn all beepers, cell phones and watches to their silent mode . Thank you.

)

Thank you for supporting the ASU
Organ Series.

BACH'S
FORMATIVE
INFLUENCES I

We're organizing another great
season for next year!

GEOFFREY HAR
WARD
ORGAN

A511.Herberger Institute
FOR DESIGN AND THE ARTS

ARIZONA
0 2009 ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts 0709

STATE

UNIVERSITY