Taft’s 2016-17 Music for a While performance series kicks off Sunday, October 16 with concert organist Nathan Laube. The program begins at 4 pm in Woodward Chapel. The event is free and open to the public; tickets are not required.
A star among young classical musicians, Laube has quickly earned a place among the organ world's elite performers. He has often been a featured performer at the national conventions of both the Organ Historical Society and the American Guild of Organists, and regularly performs at major venues across the globe, including the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonie, Copenhagen Cathedral, the Sejong Center in Seoul, South Korea, and the UK’s York Minster, Canterbury Cathedral, Exeter Cathedral, Ely Cathedral, and Truro Cathedral. Laube also serves as Assistant Professor of Organ at The Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he teaches with distinguished professors David Higgs and Edoardo Bellotti.
Laube earned his Bachelor of Music Degree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and holds a Master’s Degree in Organ from the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, Germany where he was a student of Ludger Lohmann, and recipient of a German DAAD Fellowship Study Scholarship for his studies there. As a recipient of a William Fulbright Grant, Nathan spent the 2010-2011 academic year studying with Michel Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Toulouse where he earned Prix de Spécialisé with the mention “Très Bien” and “Féliciations du Jury," in addition to the Prix François Vidal from the city of Toulouse.
To learn more about this or any of the Music for a While performances, visit www.taftschool.org/concerts. To listen to a performance by Nathan Laube, visit www.concertorganists.com.