GCS will hold Christmas concerts Dec. 1st & 9th, 2023.
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Peggy Haas Howell will be the featured organist on 12/1/23.
We are thrilled to welcome Peggy Haas Howell as the featured organist for our concert on December 1st, 2023!
Peggy Haas Howell is the organist and choirmaster at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Lynchburg, VA, and music director of Cantate Children’s and Youth Choir, a community group.
Called a “play-anything virtuoso” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, she is well-known as a recitalist and has played concerts in England, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary and Poland as well as the United States. Recent engagements have included recitals for the Atlanta Summer Organ Festival and the International Organ Festival in Pelplin, Poland.
She won first prize in the National Young Artists Organ Playing Competition of the American Guild of Organists (1974) and a shared top prize at the St. Alban’s International Organ Interpretation Competition in England (1977). She has recorded for the BBC, Sender Freies Berlin, the Finnish Broadcasting Service and Raven Recordings. Before moving to Virginia in 1996, Ms. Howell taught organ for 10 years at Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Ms. Howell graduated from Susquehanna University with a Bachelor of Arts in Church Music degree and from Union Theological Seminary with a Master of Sacred Music degree. She also attended the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Hamburg, Germany. Her organ teachers have included Harald Vogel, Cherry Rhodes, Heinz Wunderlich, Charles Dodsley Walker and James Boeringer. She is married to organ builder, Richard Howell.
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