Faculty Recital Series features Organist Michael Gartz posted 3/3/10

ADRIAN, Mich. - Adrian College faculty member, Michael Gartz, will be heard in recital on the historic Hutchings-Votey organ at Herrick Chapel on the Adrian College campus on Monday, March 15, at 8 P.M. 

Gartz teaches applied organ and accompanies student recitals, studio classes, as well as Opera Workshop at Adrian College. He graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a bachelor’s degree in organ performance, and a minor in piano. He currently serves as organist at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Toledo, accompanist for the Lenawee Community Chorus, University Choral Society in Bowling Green, and Canterbury Singers USA.

Also featured on the recital is Shannon Ford who will be playing the world-premiere of a piece for organ and saxophone by Pete Ford, assistant professor of music at Adrian College. Saxophonist and clarinetist Shannon Ford has been active as a musical freelancer and private teacher, both classical and jazz styles, in the Toledo area since 1991.

As a saxophonist, she has performed throughout the Midwest and recorded with the saxophone quartet Sax 4thAvenue, which was recently featured in concert in the Toledo Symphony’s Classical series. Ford is a teacher of saxophone at Oakland University and teacher of saxophone and clarinet at Adrian College and has performance degrees from Indiana State University and Bowling Green State University.

Gartz will also perform works by Buxtehude, Bach, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Guilmant, Sowerby and Edmundson, as well as two Hymn Preludes by Toledo-area composer Margaret Weber. 

The concert is free and open to the public. Herrick Chapel is located on Charles St.