JAMES DAVID
CHRISTIE
ORGAN

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2007 • 8:00 PM

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JAMES DAVID CHRISTIE has been internationally acclaimed as one of the

finest organist of his generation. He has performed around the world
with symphony orchestras and period instrument ensembles as well as in
solo recitals. He has served as organist of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra since 1978 and has performed and recorded under such
conductors as James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Colin Davis, John Williams, Edo
de Waart, Gerard Schwartz, Jeffrey Tate, Andrew Davis, Klaus Tennstedt,
Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Trevor Pinnock, Roger Norrington, Christopher
Hogwood and Andrew Parrott. He has been a guest professor at
conservatories in New York, Paris, Krakow, Vienna, Montreal and Brussels
and gives over thirty master classes every year. He is the
Distinguished Artist in Residence and College Organist at College of the
Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, and Professor of Organ at Oberlin
Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio. He has previously held positions
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and Boston
Conservatory.
James David Christie received his degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory
and the New England Conservatory, including the coveted Artist Diploma.
He has studied with David Boe, Bernard Lagace, Harald Vogel and
Marie-Claire Alain. He has served as Organist for the Boston Symphony
Orchestra since 1978 and has toured the United States and Japan with
them. He has performed as soloist with the Boston Symphony,
Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Mainly Mozart Orchestra,
Orchestra of St. Luke's, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony,
Bach Ensemble, Baltimore Symphony, Seattle Symphony and the Boston
Philharmonic. James David Christie is Music Director of Ensemble
Abendmusik, a Boston-based period instrument orchestra and chorus
specializing in sacred music of the 17th and 18th centuries. He was
awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the New England
School of Law for his outstanding contributions to the musical life of
Boston. He was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from New
England Conservatory.
James David Christie has served on international organ competition
juries in Paris, St. Omer-Wasquehal, Bordeaux, Biarritz, Chartres,
Liege, Montreal, Dublin, Worcester, Calgary, Leipzig, Lubeck,
Kaliningrad, Speyer, Erfurt, Lausanne, Boston, Dallas, Amsterdam and
Bruges. He was the 1979 First Prize winner of the Bruges International
Organ Competition; he was the first American to ever win First Prize in
this competition and the first person in the 18-year history of the
competition to win both the First Prize and the Prize of the Audience.
He has given over 40 concert tours of Europe. Recently, he performed
solo recitals in Paris, France, on the Evening Artists Series at St.
Sulpice, Notre-Dame Cathedral and Notre-Dame des Blancs-Manteaux and
gave master classes at the Paris Conservatory-CNR. He has performed for
National, Regional and Chapter AGO Conventions and events in Boston,

Program
Praeludium in G minor
BuxWV 148
Gott der Vater wohn uns bei
BuxWV 190
Ach Herr, mich armen Sunder
BuxWV 178
Praeludium in C major
BuxWV 136
Nun bitten wir, den Heiligen Geist
BuxWV 208
Passacaglia

in D minor
BuxWV 161
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
BuxWV 211
Praeludium in G minor
BuxWV 163
Lobt Gott, ihr Christen allzugleich
BuxWV 202
Von Gott will ich nicht lassen
BuxWV 221
Te Deum laudamus
BuxWV 218
[Praeludium]
Versus I: Te Deum laudamus
Secundus versus-Pleni sunt coeli et terra
[Versus II]: Te martyrum
[Versus IV]: Tu devicto
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Worcester, Tanglewood, Cape Cod, New York City, San Antonio, Dallas, San
Francisco, Salt Lake City, Spokane, Richmond, Seattle, Spokane, Detroit,
Lincoln, Baltimore and Philadelphia. His students have been
international prize winners in the United States, Europe, South Africa
and Japan. This summer, he will perform solo concerts in Italy,
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Estonia, the Netherlands, Denmark and
France as well as concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tanglewood
and on their 2007 European tour. He will also teach at the
McGill University Summer Organ Academy in Montreal, Canada, and the
Musica Antigua Bolzano Festival, Italy. James David Christie has
recorded for Decca, Philips, Nonesuch, JAV, Northeastern, Arabesque,
Denon, RCA, Dorian, Naxos, Bridge Records and GM Records and he has
received several awards for his recordings, including the prestigious
Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik and the highly prized Magazine
d'Orgue: Coup de Coeur.

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