AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS

MILWAUKEE CHAPTER



  


7:30pm -- Trumpet and Organ at Gesu

  • 10 Jan 2012
  • 7:30 PM
  • Church of the Gesu, 1145 W. Wisconsin Av., Milwaukee
Church
of
the
Gesu

presents


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Schantz Organ - IV-115rks
Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, 7:30 pm
Tom Schlueter, trumpet
William Schlueter, organ
student of Sr. Mary Jane Wagner
John Weissrock, organ


Church of the Gesu
1145 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI

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Thomas Schlueter has played trumpet since the age of 8, winning the Milwaukee Symphony Young Artist competition at 15. He began playing with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and other city groups at the age of 17, was a soloist at the New York Brass Conference at 19, and two-time winner of the International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition. Tom is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he was a student of Wayne Cook. He also studied with Dennis Najoom of the Milwaukee Symphony, Arnold Jacobs, and Renold Schilke of the Chicago Symphony. Tom accompanied the MSO on its European Tour, and over the years has been principal trumpet with the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, Waukesha Symphony, Skylight Opera, Milwaukee Chamber Brass as well as choral groups including the Bel Canto Chorus and Bach Chamber Choir. His free-lance work has included studio recording, Broadway touring shows and playing in back-up orchestras for leading entertainers Tony Bennett, Doc Severinsen, Franck Sinatra, Jr., John Denver, Robert Goulet and Johnny Mathis.


William Schlueter is a sophomore at Trinity Academy in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. He was first exposed to pipe organs at the age of four months when he was carried into the organ loft at Gesu Church and heard organist John Weissrock play Concerts and Weddings when his father was often the trumpeter.  He began studying violin at the age of 4 at the String Academy of Wisconsin. Two years later he switched to piano study with Stefanie Jacob at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. He has also studied percussion with Bob Lalko. In his freshman year, he expressed an intense interest in studying pipe organ and last spring he began lessons with Sister Mary Jane Wagner. He is passionate about the instrument and is enjoying his new collaboration as organist with his father playing trumpet as they make music to the glory of God.

John Weissrock.  For the past 34 years, John has been the face of music ministry at Gesu, first as the Director of Music Ministry, and now for the last two years as Principal Organist. John began studying organ at the age of 10 and at the age of 16 he entered the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music as an Organ Major and Piano Minor. He studied under Wayne Fisher at the conservatory, with whom he had been studying since the age of 12. During college, John held organist positions at five Cincinnati churches. Upon moving to Milwaukee he served first at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and following that at St. John the Evangelist Cathedral before coming to Gesu. He has presented organ concerts in France in 1988 and 1994, and he accompanied All Saints’ Catholic Church Choir to Rome as organist in 2006.




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