About the Artist:
Internationally renowned organist Diane Meredith Belcher recently celebrated her 50th anniversary season, commencing with a six-week research trip to Germany and The Netherlands, and culminating in a featured solo recital at the 2024 Biennial National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in San Francisco. She has performed throughout the U.S., in Europe, and in Canada, including appearances at Disney Hall, Grace Cathedral, Verizon Hall, Benaroya Hall, Woolsey Hall, and the Oregon Bach Festival, including duo-recitals with Los Angeles Philharmonic’s trumpeter Rob Roy McGregor and New York Philharmonic’s principal trombonist Joseph Alessi.
Her virtuoso performances have been described by American Record Guide as “glowingly brilliant, rhythmically vibrant, and consistently expressive” and by Orgel International as “exemplary in every respect”. Among her many solo recordings is the premiere of the Claremont Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ which won the "Golden Ear Award" from The Absolute Sound. She has served at such institutions as Holy Trinity/Bach Vespers (New York), Dartmouth College, Saint Mark’s (Philadelphia), and Westminster Choir College.
Highlights of the European tour included the historic organs of St. Jacobi and St. Katharinen in Hamburg, St. Jakobi in Lübeck, St. Johannes in Lüneburg, the Berlinerdom, the Karlshorst Church [Anna Amalia organ] in Berlin, the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, the Kreuzkirche in Störmthal, St. Wenzel in Naumburg, St. Jakobi and the Dom St. Marien in Freiberg, the Schloss (castle) in Alternburg, the Bach-Kirche in Arnstadt, St. Andreas in Ostönnen, the Orgelpark and Oudekerk in Amsterdam, and both organs of the Grote/Sint-Laurenskerk in Alkmaar. The featured solo recital at the 2024 American Guild of Organists’ Biennial National Convention was the seventh such invitation, a rare honor in the profession. The program on the Dutch-inspired John Brombaugh op. 20 organ consisted of music by Bach, Sweelinck, Nepomuceno, and a world-premiere transcription of Buxtehude’s Sonata in A minor by the artist.
Ms. Belcher is represented in North America by Karen McFarlane Artists.
About Our Brombaugh Organ
Learn more about our Brombaugh Opus 21 organ here.
The Program:
Praeludium in C, BWV 547 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris, SwWV 302 — Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621)
Onder een Linde Groen, SwWV 49 — Sweelinck
Prélude et Fugue (1912) — Alberto Nepomuceno (1864–1920)
Sonata in a, BuxWV 272 — Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707)
transcribed for organ by Diane Meredith Belcher
Fuga in C, BWV 547 — Bach
Praeludium et Fuga in A minor, BWV 543 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Concert Series:
The Music From St. Mark's Concert Series is offered to feed our community with the gift of music and to benefit our Choral Scholars program. We gratefully acknowledge the musicians who make this series possible.
Internationally renowned organist Diane Meredith Belcher recently celebrated her 50th anniversary season, commencing with a six-week research trip to Germany and The Netherlands, and culminating in a featured solo recital at the 2024 Biennial National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in San Francisco. She has performed throughout the U.S., in Europe, and in Canada, including appearances at Disney Hall, Grace Cathedral, Verizon Hall, Benaroya Hall, Woolsey Hall, and the Oregon Bach Festival, including duo-recitals with Los Angeles Philharmonic’s trumpeter Rob Roy McGregor and New York Philharmonic’s principal trombonist Joseph Alessi.
Her virtuoso performances have been described by American Record Guide as “glowingly brilliant, rhythmically vibrant, and consistently expressive” and by Orgel International as “exemplary in every respect”. Among her many solo recordings is the premiere of the Claremont Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ which won the "Golden Ear Award" from The Absolute Sound. She has served at such institutions as Holy Trinity/Bach Vespers (New York), Dartmouth College, Saint Mark’s (Philadelphia), and Westminster Choir College.
Highlights of the European tour included the historic organs of St. Jacobi and St. Katharinen in Hamburg, St. Jakobi in Lübeck, St. Johannes in Lüneburg, the Berlinerdom, the Karlshorst Church [Anna Amalia organ] in Berlin, the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, the Kreuzkirche in Störmthal, St. Wenzel in Naumburg, St. Jakobi and the Dom St. Marien in Freiberg, the Schloss (castle) in Alternburg, the Bach-Kirche in Arnstadt, St. Andreas in Ostönnen, the Orgelpark and Oudekerk in Amsterdam, and both organs of the Grote/Sint-Laurenskerk in Alkmaar. The featured solo recital at the 2024 American Guild of Organists’ Biennial National Convention was the seventh such invitation, a rare honor in the profession. The program on the Dutch-inspired John Brombaugh op. 20 organ consisted of music by Bach, Sweelinck, Nepomuceno, and a world-premiere transcription of Buxtehude’s Sonata in A minor by the artist.
Ms. Belcher is represented in North America by Karen McFarlane Artists.
About Our Brombaugh Organ
Learn more about our Brombaugh Opus 21 organ here.
The Program:
Praeludium in C, BWV 547 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris, SwWV 302 — Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621)
Onder een Linde Groen, SwWV 49 — Sweelinck
Prélude et Fugue (1912) — Alberto Nepomuceno (1864–1920)
Sonata in a, BuxWV 272 — Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707)
transcribed for organ by Diane Meredith Belcher
Fuga in C, BWV 547 — Bach
Praeludium et Fuga in A minor, BWV 543 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Concert Series:
The Music From St. Mark's Concert Series is offered to feed our community with the gift of music and to benefit our Choral Scholars program. We gratefully acknowledge the musicians who make this series possible.