This concert will include a work for
organ and chorus by Greensboro composer Jack Jarret. This work was commissioned by Music for a Great Space to commemorate
the Bicentennial of Greensboro, NC (1808-2008).
JANETTE FISHELL, a recitalist and teacher of international standing, has performed in many of the world’s
greatest concert venues. She has been a featured recitalist and lecturer at national
and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists. The author of many
articles and a book on service playing, she is a leading authority on the organ music of Czech composer Petr Eben. Featured in live radio broadcasts worldwide, she has made numerous recordings including performances of
the music of Dupré, Eben, and J. S. Bach as well as duet literature performed with her husband, British organist Colin Andrews. Dr. Fishell is Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina
University, Greenville, NC, where she heads the Organ Performance and Sacred Music degree programs and is Chair
of Keyboard Studies. She is also Director of Music/Principal Organist at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Greenville.
She holds degrees in organ performance from Indiana
University and Northwestern
University; her teachers include Wilma Jensen, Wolfgang Rübsam, Richard
Enright, Anita Werling, Robert Byrd, and Clyde Holloway.
JACK M. JARRETT is a composer,
pianist, conductor, and teacher. His compositions have been performed by more
than fifty major orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops.
For over forty years he has taught in American universities, most recently at Berklee College of Music where he chaired
the largest composition department in the world. There he trained young composers,
including film composers, and oversaw Berklee’s unique technology-based training program in conducting, which incorporated
his own software. His main focus currently is the design and development of NOTION
music notation and performance software at VirtuosoWorks, of which he is Vice President of Research and Development. Dr. Jarrett holds Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees in Composition
from Indiana University, Eastman School of Music, and the University of Florida, as well as a Diploma in Conducting from the
Berlin Hochschüle für Musik. We are pleased Dr. Jarrett, a native of Asheville
who is now a resident of Greensboro, accepted the commission to compose an anthem for the celebration of the Bicentennial
of the City of Greensboro.
