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Organized Rhythm plays Copland Fanfare for the Common Man

Organized Rhythm—Clive Driskill-Smith and Joseph Gramley—plays Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland, arranged by Clive Driskill-Smith and Joseph Gramley.

April 19, 2016, Hill Auditorium, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Organized Rhythm is represented by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists.

For information: www.organizedrhythm.com.

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Clive Driskill-Smith is the Organist and Choirmaster at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, Texas, a post that he combines with an international concert career. During the last few years, he has performed at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., Melbourne Town Hall, Westminster Abbey, the Grand Philharmonic Hall in Perm (Russia), and the National Performing Arts Center in Taipei. He has played at Festivals—such as the BBC Proms, the East Texas Pipe Organ Festival, and National Conventions of the American Guild of Organists—and he has worked with numerous conductors, including Dr. Stephen Darlington, Klaus Tennstedt, and Sir Colin Davis.

Clive Driskill-Smith is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.

See his artist spotlight: https://www.thediapason.com/artists/clive-driskill-smith

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Ramírez is San Diego Civic Organist and Artistic Director of the Spreckels Organ Society, where he presides over the famed Austin organ at the city’s Balboa Park Pavilion—the largest open-air musical instrument in the world. Mr. Ramírez is the eighth Civic Organist to serve San Diego on the Spreckels organ bench. https://spreckelsorgan.org/

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Raúl Prieto Ramírez is represented exclusively in North America by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC; www.concertartists.com 

See his artist spotlight on The Diapason website: https://www.thediapason.com/artists/raul-prieto-ramirez

Benjamin Sheen plays Percy Whitlock Scherzetto

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Hailed by The New York Times as a “brilliant organist,” Benjamin Sheen is an established concert artist on both sides of the Atlantic and has recently been appointed Director of Music at Jesus College Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He was named the winner of the Pierre S. DuPont First Prize at the inaugural Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition in June 2013. That same year, he was also named second prize winner and the Jon Laukvik Prize winner of the 50th St. Albans Festival and International Organ Competition.

Benjamin Sheen will be on tour in the United States from mid-March through mid-April 2024.

Benjamin Sheen is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC
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See his artist spotlight at https://www.thediapason.com/artists/benjamin-sheen

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