Organ Recital: Stephen Fraser

Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Hymne d'action de grâce “ Te Deum”, Op. 5, No. 3

Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
Adagio in G minor (arr. organ)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fugue in G Major “à la Gigue”, BWV 577

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Choral Varié sur le thème du “ Veni Creator”, Op. 4


Stephen Fraser has been active as a choir director, organist, singer, teacher, and composer in the New York City area since 2007, and is currently director of music and organist at St. Malachy’s Church • The Actors’ Chapel, in the Theater District near Times Square. He is also organist for The Salvatones, a New York City professional ensemble, and the director of The Salvatones Young Voices.

He has attended the University of Toronto, Eastman School of Music, and Yale University (Institute of Sacred Music). He has also served as assistant organist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where he played weekday Masses broadcast live on SiriusXM Radio. On the Upper East Side, he was director of music at the Church of the Holy Trinity, where he conducted the adult and youth choirs.

Stephen has also worked as organist for The Sunday Mass on the ABC Family Network, and has sung in several reputable ensembles, including the Yale Schola Cantorum, Cantori New York, and the Oratorio Society of New York.

During the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to New York in 2008, he accompanied The Cathedral of Saint Patrick Young Singers (CSPYS) at the organ at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers. Moreover, the choristers sang one of his compositions for this special event; an arrangement entitled Now the Green Blade Riseth.

As a published composer, he has written in many musical genres, with his primary focus in sacred choral music. In 2008, he was winner of American Guild of Organists/ECS Publishing Award in Choral Composition. In 2014, he received second prize in the International Composition Competition for Sacred Music Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. His choral music is performed at many festivals and concerts on both sides of the Atlantic.