Emmanuel Church will sponsor an exciting organ concert by Scott Montgomery, on Oct 9th at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $20 at the door. (Children and students with I. D. are free) Emmanuel Church is located at 101 N. Cross St. Chestertown.
Scott Montgomery is Director of Music Ministries and Organist for Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church in Champaign, Illinois. Scott received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in organ performance, studying with Dr Dana Robinson.
Scott has been a prize winner in several competitions including first-prize in the American Guild of Organists’ Region V Competition in Evansville, Indiana (1997), second-prize in the Arthur Poister National Organ Competition in Syracuse, New York (2002), and was also the first recipient of the M. Louise Miller Scholarship (2002) sponsored by the Greater Bridgeport Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. In 2006 he was winner of both the Lilian Murtagh Memorial Award (first-prize) and the Audience Prize of the American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artist Competition in Organ Playing (NYACOP), the first person to win both prizes in the history of the competition.
Emmanuel Church is proud to offer a total of five concerts for the 2015-2016 season, the Scott Montgomery concert being the first. Subscription for the entire series is $85. For more information please contact the church office at 410-778-3477 or see the church web site at emmanuelchestertown.org.
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