Organist Janet Sora Chung to perform at University

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Performance Music at The University of Scranton will wrap up its spring semester programming with an organ recital presented by Janet Sora Chung on Friday, May 10. The recital begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Houlihan-McLean Center, Mulberry Street and Jefferson Avenue. Admission is free of charge and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis.

“Janet’s last performance here impressed us with her mastery of both traditional and non-traditional genres of organ music, both in terms of her performance and registrations” said Performance Music Conductor and Director Cheryl Y. Boga.

The New York City-based Chung is an organist, violinist, arranger and educator who serves as co-artistic director of the Christopher Street Collegium, an ensemble that brings together some of New York’s finest young classical musicians to perform the sacred works of composers like Bach, Buxtehude, Couperin and others.

A frequent recitalist in the United States and abroad who has won acclaim for her interpretations of Messiaen and Bach, Chung earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she received the Bronson Ragan Award for outstanding ability in organ performance.

Chung will perform on the University’s historic 114-year-old Austin Opus 301 organ, which was re-dedicated in 2006 after having been completely dismantled, rebuilt and restored. The 3,178-pipe, 45-rank, 4-manual instrument was built in 1910 by the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, Connecticut, and exists today as one of a very small number of surviving examples of intact and original symphonic organs from the transitional period between the turn of the century and World War I.

For further information about the performance, call 570-941-7624, email [email protected] or visit the Performance Music website. For additional info on Chung, visit janetsorachung.com.