In a beautiful blending of voice and organ, Molly Quinn and Benjamin Sheen will present a recital at St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church on Sunday afternoon, July 28. The public is invited to the 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 Ben also will offer organ works based on chant, presented with the chants that inspired them. Their program will also include Baroque arias and theater music.
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.
Soprano Molly Quinn 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. She is a longtime member of the Carmel Bach Festival Chorale and featured soloist.