Organ Recital: Juilliard School Organ Students

Students of Paul Jacobs at The Juilliard School, New York City

Patrick Kreeger, organist
Louis Vierne (1870-1937): from Cinquième Symphonie pour grand orgue, Op. 47:
     Final

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Elena Baquerizo, organist
Maurice Duruflé (1902-1984): Prélude sur l'Introit de l'Épiphanie, Op. 13
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847): Sonata in C Minor, Op. 65, No. 2

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Filippo Mariottini, organist
Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Prelude & Fugue on B-A-C-H

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Jeremiah Mead, organist
Jehan Alain (1911-1940): Le Jardin suspendu
Jehan Alain: Litanies

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Yuejian Chen, organist
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), trans. Yuejian Chen:  from Le Tombeau de Couperin
     Prelude
Louis Vierne (1870-1937): from Troisième Symphonie pour grand orgue, Op. 28:
     I. Allegro maestoso

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Raphael Attila Vogl, organist
Max Reger (1873-1916): Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, Op. 135b


Giving his Carnegie Hall Debut at age 17, Patrick Kreeger has established himself as one of the leading musicians of his generation. Praised by  The Philadelphia Inquirer for his “elegantly detailed phrasing,” as well as having “a lot to offer beyond the organ console,” Patrick maintains a versatile career as a pianist, organist, choral conductor, and educator. Patrick has performed in many prestigious venues around the world, including: Benaroya Hall (Seattle, WA), Meymandi Symphony Hall (Raleigh, NC), Verizon Hall (Philadelphia, PA), Bulgaria Hall (Sofia, Bulgaria), Cook Hall (St. John’s, Newfoundland), Peterborough Cathedral (U.K.), Mus ée d’Augustins (Toulouse, France), Kunsten Museum of Fine Art (Aalborg, Denmark), as well as numerous other venues in the U. S., U. K., France, Italy, Israel, Bulgaria, and Denmark. He gave his symphonic debut in April 2008, performing Sergei Rachmaninoff’s first piano concerto with the North Carolina Symphony and has also been guest soloist with the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, Virginia Beach Symphony, Chilliwack Symphony Orchestra, Barton College/Wilson Symphony Orchestra, and the SUNY-Purchase Conservatory Orchestra. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Kreeger has pursued higher education at three institutions. At age 18, he was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to attend Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied organ and piano with Alan Morrison and Susan Starr, respectively. He then received the Robert Baker scholarship to attend Yale University, where he earned his master’s degree under Martin Jean. He is now a C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at The Juilliard School, studying with Paul Jacobs. Patrick serves as the Associate Organist at New York City’s historic Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. In September 2019, Patrick was appointed to the music theory faculty at The Juilliard School and is also on the faculty at Curtis Institute of Music’s Young Artist Summer Program.

A recent prizewinner in the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival, Elena Baquerizo currently studies organ with Dr. Paul Jacobs at The Juilliard School, where she is pursuing a BM degree. Originally from south Florida, she has given organ performances and played for services in both Americas. Concert appearances have included Church of the Epiphany (Miami, FL), Marble Collegiate Church (New York, NY), and the Oregon Bach Festival (Eugene, OR); service playing venues have included Seminario Nuestra Señora Corredentora (La Reja, Argentina), Iglesia del Corazón Inmaculado y Doloroso de María (Santiago, Chile), and Assumption Chapel in St. Marys, Kansas. She has been the recipient of several organ performance awards, such as the M. Louise Miller-Paul E Knox Scholarship, second prize in the AGO/Quimby RCYO, and first prize in the ECU Young Artists Competition. Currently, she is organist at Our Lady of Peace Church in Brooklyn, NY. Miss Baquerizo is also passionate about the piano in its solo and collaborative roles. She has appeared as a soloist with the Alhambra Orchestra in Ransom-Everglades School (Coconut Grove, Florida) and given piano recitals in Reilly Arts Center (Ocala, FL) and Miami-Dade College’s McCarthy Hall. Her collaborative work has involved choirs, singers, and instrumentalists of varying levels, including Dr. Andrew Childs in a performance of Schubert’s  Winterreise at St. Mary’s McCabe Theater (St. Marys, KS). Miss Baquerizo received her AA in Liberal Arts from St. Mary’s College (Saint Marys, KS), where she graduated as valedictorian. She studied voice with Dr. Andrew Childs, Associate Dean of St. Mary’s College and former Managing Coordinator of Voice and Opera at the Yale School of Music. A chant aficionado, she sang in an adaptation of Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum in April 2018 and has performed many of the Propers of the Mass with her sisters.

A native of Spoleto, Italy, Filippo Mariottini is a graduate student at The Juilliard School, studying with Paul Jacobs. He first encountered the organ at age fifteen in his parish church; after this pivotal experience, he began studying the organ with Angelo Silvio Rosati. Following high school, Filippo attended the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, where he pursued his Bachelor’s degree in the studio of organist Alessandro Licata. While at the Conservatory, Mariottini performed in many notable concerts and had the opportunity to share the stage with such distinguished artists as Michelle Campanella (in Liszt comanda color) and his teacher A. Licata (in Un organo per Roma – Nuove consonanze and Omaggio a Fernando Germani). After that, Filippo received an Erasmus scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in Church Music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. There he studied with Ralph Gustafsson and Johannes Landgren. While in Stockholm, Filippo also worked as the organist of Marie Bebådelse church (2017-18). Mariottini has performed for many masterclasses throughout his student career, working with professors Nathan Laube (Eastman School of Music), Thierry Escaich (Conservatoire de Paris), Ralph Gustafsson (Royal College of Music, Stockholm), Kristine Adamaite (Latvian Academy of Music) and Ronald Ebrecht (Wesleyan University, Connecticut).

Jeremiah Mead is an undergraduate student of Paul Jacobs at The Juilliard School. Mead is a native of Madison, Connecticut, first studying organ with Ezequiel Menéndez at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Hartford, Connecticut and Andrew Kotylo at Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied piano with Ms. Victoria Reeve of Guilford, Connecticut, and Ms. Laura Richling of Hamden, Connecticut. He sang for ten years as a member of the Trinity Church Choir of Men and Boys in New Haven, Connecticut, under the direction of Mr. Walden Moore. Mead has performed at various venues in New York, including the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Marble Collegiate Church and Hitchcock Presbyterian Church. He has given solo organ recitals at many Connecticut venues, including The Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Hartford, Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Stamford, Christ Church in Guilford, Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Killingworth and Holy Advent Church in Clinton.

Initially a Yamaha electronic keyboard player, Yuejian Chen started his musical career at age 13 in Shanghai Conservatory of Music. During his study in pre-college, he experienced a wide range of styles of music from Classical repertoire to Jazz music. After years of studying both in the classical and popular genres, Yuejian decided to turn to a much older instrument: the Pipe Organ. Yuejian Chen began studying the pipe organ at age 18 when this instrument was one of the least known in China. Imaginative and innovative, Yuejian Chen is a rising Chinese organist. Yuejian received his master’s degree from the Juilliard School, where he is pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree, studying with the prestigious Grammy Award-Winner Paul Jacobs. Yuejian is currently working as the Organ Scholar at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church NYC. Previously, he served as the Organ Scholar at Hitchcock Presbyterian Church Scarsdale and Christ Church United Methodist Park Avenue. In Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Yuejian studied with Lei Zhu and Dan Wu, two of the earliest organists in China. He performed at Shanghai Oriental Center of Art, Shanghai Concert Hall, Hangzhou Grand Theater, Ningbo Grand Theater and Hong Kong Cultural Center. Additionally, he had performed with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Oriental Orchestra. In New York City, Yuejian is an active performer who has performed in the prominent places such as the Marble Collegiate Church, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, the Church of St. Paul the Apostle and St. Ignatius Loyola Church. Yuejian is also a brilliant improviser who has performed in the improvisation concert in Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig in 2015. As a scholar, Yuejian is invited annually to give lectures at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Meanwhile, he is a lecturer in the Ningbo Luoqi Library Summer Organ Workshop and the Content Organ Workshop, which are two of the most significant organ events in China.

German organist Raphael Attila Vogl is currently a graduate student of Paul Jacobs at The Juilliard School. Born in 1996, he received piano lessons from the age of 6 and consequently began organ at the age of 11. Rapid progress led him to cathedral Organist Ludwig Ruckdeschel, with whom he studied in Passau (Germany). After completing school Raphael began his studies at the University of Catholic Church Music and Music Education in Regensburg (Germany), studying organ and church music with Stefan Baier and Markus Rupprecht. Raphael has taken part in many competitions, winning second prize at the "Jugend musiziert" and in 2015 was awarded for the Promotion Prize 2014 as the youngest prize-winner of the Kulturkreis Freyung-Grafenau. He also received a special prize at the International Mendelssohn Organ Competition in Switzerland and in the International Tariverdiev Organ Competition a prize from the University of Kansas. After a year in the Franz-Liszt-Academy in Budapest with Laszlo Fassang he graduated in Regensburg 2018.