AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS

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7:30 pm Mark Konewko, organ

  • 11 Sep 2012
  • 7:30 PM
  • Church of the Gesu, Milwaukee
Church of the Gesu
presents
MARK KONEWKO, organ


Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 7:30 pm

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

Free Will Offering


Organ specification

Mark Konewko, guest artist for Gesu’s monthly organ concert on September 11, has an impressive and multi-faceted career that includes organ and carillon performance, choral music directing, and composing. Mr. Konewko holds the positions of Director of Music at Mother of Good Counsel Church in Milwaukee, and Carillonneur and Director of the University Chorus at Marquette University.

Specializing in early Middle Ages, Baroque, and 20th and 21st century organ music, Mr. Konewko has performed concerts throughout the United States and Europe, the last of which were in Essen, Germany, and Marina di Grosseto, Italy. He has performed concerts on carillon in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Haarlem, and other towers within The Netherlands and Belgium. Closer to home, he gives voice to the carillon at Marquette University, the beautiful sounds of which we at Gesu and Marquette love and welcome as both melodies and the hours of the day peal forth from it .

As the Director of the University Chorus at Marquette, in addition to his chorus development and conducting responsibilities there, he has also led choral concert tours. This past Christmas, he was invited to the White House in Washington D.C. to direct singers from the University Chorus for President Obama’s Holiday Open House. In an earlier concert tour to Italy, he led the 80-voice combined choirs from the parishes of St. Robert in Shorewood, Holy Family in Whitefish Bay, and St. Eugene in Fox Point in performances for Pope John Paul II at St. Peter’s in Rome, at San Marco in Venice, and at the cathedral of St. Francis in Assisi.

A composer as well, Mr. Konewko has written music for numerous Shakespeare productions at Marquette’s Helfaer Theater. Awards he has received include the Gold Medal of Recognition for Medieval music from the Palio Association, Badia Tedalda.

 

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