Seattle Symphony Resident Organist Joseph Adam will perform the second of three recitals in this season’s Fluke/Gabelein Organ Recital series on Monday, January 28, at 7:30 p.m. Adam will present a program of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, including In dir ist Freude (“In You is Joy”) – a piece written especially to celebrate the New Year – and other selections from Bach’s Das Orgelbüchlein (“Little Organ Book”).
Joseph Adam is Resident Organist for Seattle Symphony and has served as the Cathedral Organist at St. James Cathedral in Seattle since 1993. He has been a faculty member at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma for the past eight years. In July 2004, he was one of three organists to take part in the inaugural performances of the Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. Recent highlights include performing at the American Guild of Organists Convention in Portland, OR, and appearing as a soloist in the Poulenc Organ Concerto with Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz.
Adam has performed in many of the world’s most famous cathedrals, including the Chartres Cathedral, St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, and the Bavokerk and Basilica of St. Bavo in Haarlem, the Netherlands; at cathedrals in St. Albans, Newcastle and Chester, England; Mainz, Magdeburg and Erfurt, Germany; and Vienna and Graz, Austria. U.S. performances include Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, St. Paul’s Cathedral in Pittsburgh and the National Shrine in Washington, D.C. In 1991, Adam was awarded first prize at the St. Albans International Organ Competition.
Adam received undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano from the University of Iowa and a Performer’s Certificate in Organ from the Eastman School of Music. He presents free bi-monthly demonstration recitals on the Watjen Concert Organ in Benaroya Hall. -- www.seattlesymphony.org
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