Sunday, July 28, 2024, 3:00 PM
Tickets are $25, available at the door. Students and patrons 18 and under are free. St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church is located at 28005 Robinson Canyon Road, Carmel Valley. 831-624-6646. Stdcv.org
Molly Quinn and Benjamin Sheen will present a recital at St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church on Sunday afternoon, July 28, in a beautiful blending of voice and organ. The public is invited to the 3 p.m. concert and the reception with the artists that will follow.
The duo’s richly varied program will feature Louis Vierne’s stunning Les Angelus for Soprano and Organ. Molly and Benjamin will also offer organ works based on chant, presented with the chants that inspired them. Their program will also include Baroque arias and music from the theater.
Benjamin will be playing St. Dunstan’s spectacular Opus 94 Dobson tracker pipe organ. Currently Director of Music at Jesus College Cambridge, Ben is one of the UK’s most established organists on both sides of the Atlantic. Hailed as “brilliant” by the New York Times, he is a past winner of the Pierre S. du Pont First Prize in the inaugural Longwood Gardens Organ Competition and of the Jon Laukvik prize at the St. Alban’s International Organ Competition. Before moving back to the UK in 2020, he spent seven years in New York City as Associate Organist at the world-famous Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue. Ben began his musical career as a chorister at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, during which time he gained a music scholarship to Eton College. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the Juilliard School and is a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. More at
www.bensheen.com/events
Soprano Molly Quinn is a longtime Carmel Bach Festival Chorale member and featured soloist. She has appeared as a soloist in noted national and international venues, including Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Shostakovich Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, and San Cristobal Cathedral in Havana, Cuba. Molly received a master’s degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and was awarded the prestigious Virginia Best Adam Fellowship. In addition to her career as a performer, Molly has served as a professor of voice at Sarah Lawrence College, summer faculty for Duke University’s Chorworks program, and with the Trinity Wall Street Choristers program. A native of Chapel Hill, NC, she now resides in Cambridge, UK. More at
www.mollyquinn.com