Michael Surratt and Gargoyle Brass to Perform April 29
April 14, 2007 -- Hinsdale, Ill. -- Trumpets and brass will sound in Hinsdale on Sunday, April 29. The Union Church of Hinsdale presents the Gargoyle Brass Quintet and Michael Surratt, organist, in a 4:00 PM concert at the church located at Third and Garfield Streets.
The Chicago Gargoyle Brass began in 1992 as a chamber group of faculty
and students at the University of Chicago, whose campus architecture
boasts a charming variety of the ensemble's namesake. Today the
GargoyleBrass is in residence at Union Church of Hinsdale. Members of
the ensemble are classically trained adult professionals, playing in
orchestras, jazz bands, and musical theaters around Chicago. The group
has performed cantatas and major liturgical works in major churches of
Chicagoland, Wisconsin and Indiana. Concert recitalvenues have included
the Newberry Library, Rockefeller Chapel of the University of Chicago,
and the Graham-
Taylor Chapel of the Chicago Theological Seminary.
Michael Surratt, the concert's organist and also the director of the
Allegro Handbell Ensemble, is a native of North Caolina and church
organist since the age of twelve. He was graduated from highschool at
the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and received
the Bachelor of Music degree inorgan performance at Oberlin College
Conservatory of Music and received the Master of Music degree in
organat Northwestern University. He has been Organist and Director of
Music at the Union Church of Hinsdale since1979. He has served as Dean
of the Fox Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and has
played organrecitals throughout the midwest and southeastern United
States and in Europe. He has been heard on MinnesotaPublic Radio’s
nationally syndicated program Pipedreams. He has been an Adjunct
Instructor of Organ atElmhurst College, has been accompanist for
several community choral groups and has appeared as organ soloist with
several symphony orchestras in the Chicago suburbs.
More information is available by contacting the Union Church of Hinsdale at 630-323-4303 or www.uchinsdale.org.
April 14, 2007 -- Hinsdale, Ill. -- Trumpets and brass will sound in Hinsdale on Sunday, April 29. The Union Church of Hinsdale presents the Gargoyle Brass Quintet and Michael Surratt, organist, in a 4:00 PM concert at the church located at Third and Garfield Streets.