Join us as Grace Church welcomes organist
Naoko T. Maeda as guest artist for Bach at Noon on Tuesday 28 March at 12:20 p.m.
PROGRAM
Fantasia in C major BWV570
From “Kirnberger Chorales”
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV706
Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten BWV690
Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten BWV691
Prelude in C major BWV943
From “Dritter Teil der Klavierübung”
Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit BWV672
Wir glauben all an einen Gott BWV681
Vater unser im Himmelreich BWV683
Prelude in D minor BWV539
”Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” from Cantata BWV147
Naoko T. Maeda is organist of Kobe College and Toyonaka Church in Osaka, Japan. She is now giving organ lessons regularly at Kobe College, at Toyonaka Church and at Osaka Johoku Church.
An organ student of Keiko Inoue and Frans Boon, and piano student of Yoko Ikeda, she holds a BA from the school of Music, Kobe College. In Berkeley, California, from 1989 to 1991, she studied organ with University organist, John Butt, and she was organist of Grace Institute for Religious Learning. She performed with the U.C. Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and concertized throughout the Bay Area (Old St. Mary’s Church, St. Ignatius Church and St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, and Grace Institute in Berkeley). She was chosen one of 25 competitors in National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance(1993/94) held by American Guild of Organists. As organ soloist, she has played with Kyoto University Symphony Orchestra in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo and had the honor of premiering the new Klais organ at Kyoto Concert Hall at the opening concert with Kyoto Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No.8.
She frequently appears as an organist in the concerts with Arcadia Orchestra. Active as a recitalist, she appears in the concerts at Kyoto Concert Hall, The Symphony Hall in Osaka, Izumi Hall in Osaka, and many others in Japan. In 1995, 2003, 2008 and 2014 she visited California and played solo concerts at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, St. Stephen’s Church in Belvedere, and at Grace North Church in Berkeley. In 2012 she visited UK and played recitals at Newton St Cyres Parish Church in Exeter, at King’s College Chapel in University of Aberdeen and at Memorial Chapel in University of Glasgow. She also performed in Exeter Cathedral, in St. David’s Church, Exeter and in Pembroke College, Cambridge.
This time she is visiting the US to play an organ recital at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco on March 26 and play Bach at Noon at Grace Church in New York on March 28, 2017.
