With a program containing the music of Bingham, Bach, Liszt and others, 20-year old Tom Sheehan will be playing the first of three organ recitals for the 2009 season at the Church of the Advent, Franklin and Washington sts. In Cape May, July 22 at 7 p.m.
Admission is $10.
Sheehan, a rising star in the concert organist world, is in his senior year as an organ performance major at Westminster Choir College, part of Rider University located in Princeton.
He accompanied the Westminster Chapel Choir and the Westminster Schola Cantorum in all of their concerts, and is also an organ scholar at Trinity Church in Princeton, where he works with Tom Whittmore.
Sheehan has toured England with Trinity Choir when they performed at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. He has accompanied them to other venues, including Bryn Mawr, Pa., New York City, and the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
He is winner of the Arthur Poister National competition, the Philadelphia Chapter American Guild of Organists (AGO) Young Organist competition, and most recently, the Mid-Atlantic Young Organist competition of the AGO.
He’ll compete with eight other young organists at the 2010 AGO National Convention in Washington, D.C.
Sheehan’s second recital will be August 26 at 7 p.m. with Stephen Buzard, also a student at Westminster. His third recital is scheduled for Oct. 11 at 4 p.m., when he will be appearing with Gordon Turk, organist of St. Mary’s in Bryn Mawr.
