Music at Mid-day: Jeremy David Tarrant - November 8, 2024

Music at Mid-day
Friday, November 8, 2024
Jeremy David Tarrant, organ
A pdf of the program, is available here: detroitcathedr...
Program:
Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552ii; J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Nimrod (from Enigma Variations); Edward Elgar (1857-1934), transcr. Daniel James Ficarri
from Symphonie Romane, op. 73; Charles Marie Widor (1844-1937)
iii. Cantilene
iv. Final
The next Music at Mid-day is November 22.
About the Artist
Serving the Cathedral music staff since 1994, Jeremy David Tarrant has been Organist and Choirmaster since 2000 and became Canon Precentor in 2007. He is the founding director of the Cathedral Choir School of Metropolitan Detroit.
Mr. Tarrant is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music where he earned the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in organ performance and church music in the classes of Robert Glasgow and James Kibbie. He is currently Visiting Lecturer in Organ at the University of Michigan.
An active concert organist, Jeremy David Tarrant has performed widely in North America and France. In 2008, he made his European debut with a recital in the Cathédrale de St. Etienne in Meaux, France, and in 2011 he performed the closing concert of International Organ Week in Dijon. He has been a featured artist in the Pine Mountain Music Festival, and between 2015 and 2017 he performed a series of concerts on important instruments in Detroit. His debut solo recording of featuring Widor’s Symphonie VII, was released in 2018 to enthusiastic critical acclaim.
Canon Tarrant conducted the Cathedral Choir in tow tours of England as well as numerous domestic trips. On the choir’s two CD releases, Nowell Sing We, and Evensong for All Saints, he is featured as organ soloist as well as conductor.
Jeremy David Tarrant is represented by Seven Eight Artists.