SHADYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

(Due to the disruption of travel in Europe as a result of the volcanic eruption in Iceland, the originally scheduled performance of Clive Driskill-Smith will not be possible.  An organ recital featuring Nigel Potts will take its place at the same date and time.  Thank you for your patience and understanding.)

Music in a Great Space and the Organ Artists Series present organist Nigel Potts in concert on Sunday, April 25, at 4:00 p.m.

Tickets may be purchased in advance by calling 412-682-4300 or at the door. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for seniors (60 and older), and free for students and children.

Nigel Potts has become renowned worldwide for his “sense of expression which never cloys” (The Sydney Organ Journal, Australia), the way in which he “handles the organ with an admirable blend of authority and aplomb” (The New Mexican), and his use of the organ’s “extensive resources with imagination and taste” (The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians).  Presently serving as the organist and choirmaster of Christ & St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, New York City, Mr. Potts has performed in such distinguished venues as Westminster Abbey, London; St. Paul’s Cathedral, London; Notre-Dame de Paris; The Riverside Church, New York City; Woolsey Hall, Yale University; and Washington National Cathedral; in addition to various venues in Iceland, Austria, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

A New Zealand native, Nigel Potts earned a Master of Music degree at Yale University and holds diplomas from the Conservatorium of Music in Wellington and Trinity College of Music, London. While living in London, he studied Church Music at the Royal Academy of Music and played for services at St. Paul’s Cathedral.  A respected champion of 19th- and 20th-century British organ music, Nigel Potts is renowned for his “intuitive grasp of the grand British style, and one can sense his love for this music in his secure technique and in his idiomatic phrasing and expression” (The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians).  His CDs and recitals have been reviewed favorably by critics around the world and have been broadcast on radio stations in Australia, Iceland, New Zealand, and on Pipedreams in the United States.