Michael Hey has been added to the roster of Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists. As the featured organ soloist in the New York City Ballet’s newly commissioned work Acheron, which was set to the music of Francis Poulenc’s Organ Concerto, Hey’s performance at its premiere was praised by the New York Times.
Michael Hey made his New York City debut in Alice Tully Hall performing a Handel organ concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra under Nicholas McGegan. He has participated in a performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, arranged for brass, organ, and percussion, with the New World Symphony, and performed at the National Association of Pastoral Musicians’ national convention in Washington, D.C., and the American Guild of Organists’ national convention in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been featured on Hawaii Public Radio and has been heard on American Public Media’s Pipedreams playing his transcription of Smetana’s Overture to The Bartered Bride in Alice Tully Hall.
Hey recently graduated from the Juilliard School, where he received both his bachelor of music and master of music degrees in organ performance under Paul Jacobs. His transcription of the Passacaille from Maurice Ravel’s Piano Trio can be heard on the album Divine Splendor (Pro Organo) recorded by Ray Nagem on the organ of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.
A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Michael Hey serves as the assistant organist at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. His website is www.michaelhey.com.
