Congregational Evensong & Organ Recital

Congregational Evensong & Organ Recital

4:00 pm

Nave
2300 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94704

The 41st season of the Second Sunday Evensong/Organ Recital Series at St. Mark’s, Berkeley begins on Sunday, September 13.  

A congregational evensong will be offered at 4:00pm followed by an organ recital offered by Joseph Arndt, beginning around 4:40pm.

Joseph Arndt is Organist and Director of Music at The Church of St. Michael & St. George in Clayton, Missouri. He directs a traditional Anglican music program including choirs for adults, teenagers, and young children. A new chancel organ, Opus 188 by Schoenstein & Co., is being installed in the summer of 2026.
A graduate of The Juilliard School (MM) and Westminster Choir College (BM), he is a former organ student of Paul Jacobs, Ken Cowan, and Diane Meredith Belcher. To celebrate the bicentennial of César Franck, in 2022 he performed the composer’s organ works with a tour including recitals in Houston, Fort Worth, New York City, Seattle, Denver, and Tulsa. Additional recent solo recitals have been given at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, Church of the Advent in Boston, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and the Couts Series at Second Presbyterian Church in St. Louis.
He has premiered new choral and organ works by composers including Christian Carey, Daniel Elder, Joshua Fishbein, and Rebecca Groom te Velde, now published by Carus, GIA, Oxford, and E. C. Schirmer. Active in historical performance, he has curated festivals in collaboration with internationally recognized Bach scholar Christoph Wolff. He has conducted more than thirty Bach cantatas with period instruments, and he was for six years a principal continuo player for Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity in New York City.
Prior to his move to St. Louis, Mr. Arndt held director positions at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Tulsa, Grace Church in Newark, and assistant organist positions at Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, NJ. He has served as Chair of Fundraising for the Association of Anglican Musicians, conventions of the American Guild of Organists, and summer courses of the Royal School of Church Music-America.

 

PROGRAM:

Buxtehude:  Preaeludium in D minor, BuxWV 140
Bach:  ​Schmücke dich, O liebe Seele, BWV 654
Georg Böhm:  Vater unser im Himmelreich
Samuel Barber:    Wondrous Love: Variations on a shape-note hymn
Craig Phillips:  Archangel Suite

 

A reception will follow the program.

Parking is available in the parish lot at 2315 Ellsworth.

$1-74 Supporter
$75-124 Friend
$125-249 Sponsor
$250-499 Patron
$500-999 Sustainer
$1000+ Benefactor

Future Artists include:

October 11:  Angela Kraft Cross, San Mateo, CA
November 8:  Katya Kolesnikova, Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
December 13:  No Recital
January 10, 2027:  John Karl Hirten, St. John’s, Ross
February 14:  Jackson Merrill, St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, NYC
March 14:  Jacob Benda, College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
April 11:  Margaret Martin Kvamme, Los Gatos, CA
May 9:  John Nothaft, Lewinsville Presbyterian Church, McLean, VA
June 13:  Stephen Buzard, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

Tax-deductible contributions are most welcome to help support the series.  Thank you for your support.
For further information, contact George Emblom, GAEmblom@aol.com.