Carolyn Craig

Award-winning American organist Carolyn Craig, MMA FRCO, is Assistant Director of Music at Wells Cathedral in Somerset, England, and a Teacher of Organ at Wells Cathedral School, a specialist music school. Originally from Knoxville, TN, she earned her undergraduate degree at Indiana University (BM in Organ Performance, minors in Conducting and German) and graduate degrees at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music (Master of Music in Organ; Master of Musical Arts in Organ).

She studied organ with John Brock, Christopher Young, Jon Laukvik, and Martin Jean in the US, and Ulrich Walther and Johannes Ebenbauer in Austria. In the UK, she held organ scholarships at Truro Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey. Her work has been featured on BBC Radio 3 and the American radio program Pipedreams, and she has performed throughout the US, UK, and mainland Europe. Carolyn contributes to the inclusive church music planning resource at greathostcomposers.org and is co-founder of amplifyfemalecomposers.org.

All recitals and concerts are free and open to the public. No tickets or passes are required. Seating is first-come, first-served, starting at 7:15 PM. At each Eccles Organ Festival concert, two seats are reserved until 7:45 PM for Friends in the Benefactor and Patron tiers, and four seats for Friends in the Ambassador and Founder tiers.

Program
- Florence Price (1887–1953): Finale from Organ Sonata in D
- Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951): First Flight
- Kerensa Briggs (b. 1991): Light in darkness
- Louis Vierne (1870–1937): Naïades from Pièces de Fantaisie, op. 55 no. 4
- Udi Perlman (b. 1990): Big Fish Eat Little Fish
- Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968): Attende Domine from Twelve Chorale Paraphrases on Gregorian Chant Themes, op. 8 no. 3
- Marcel Dupré (1886–1971): Symphonie-Passion, Op. 23
- I. Le monde dans l’attente du Saveur
- II. Nativité
- III. Crucifixion
- IV. Résurrection