Noted musician and schlolar Dr. J. Owen Burdick to be interviewed by Patrick D. McCoy

Nov. 30, 2011 - PRLog -- Dr. J. Owen Burdick is renowned for his interpretations of Handel's timeless masterwork.  From 1990-2008, he served as Director of Music at Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City where he was revered for his performance of Messiah with the Trinity Choir. Currently, Dr. Burdick is Organist and Choirmaster at Church of Saint Agnes in Washington, D. C.  The church's pipe organ suffered considerable damage during the recent earthquake and the December 18 performance in part will raise funds for the restoration of the instrument.
Burdick will drop in on Patrick D. McCoy -The African American Voice in Classical Music on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at Noon.

Listen to the show here:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/patrickdmccoy/2011/12/01/noted-organist-scholar-and-conductor-dr-j-owen-burdick

A graduate of State University of New York at Purchase and the Juilliard School (where his principal teachers included Albert Fuller, Anthony Newman, and Igor Kipnis), Burdick received his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California in Los Angeles and holds the Associate and Choirmaster Certificates from the American Guild of Organists. He was recently made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music and has studied as a conducting fellow with Helmuth Rilling and at IRCAM with Pierre Boulez. Since his Carnegie Hall debut in 1978, Burdick has toured internationally as a harpsichord soloist and with the Musical Offering Baroque Ensemble, with whom he accompanied Maurice André, Arleen Auger, and Henryk Szeryng. Burdick has recorded for the NAXOS, Hänssler Classic, Nonesuch, Summit, Gothic, and Centaur labels and is represented by Slaymaker Special Projects.

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