John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders of Champaign, Illinois announces that it has signed an agreement for a new Gallery Organ for St. Vincent Benedictine Archabbey, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to be completed by Easter 2014.
The Gallery Organ will be a three-manual 72-rank instrument located in free-standing cases on either side and beneath a large round window in the basilica’s gallery. It will complement a small Apse Organ built by Buzard in 2010.
Both organs will play from a single console located near the crossing, constructed previously and delivered with the Apse Organ. The Choir Division of the new Gallery Organ has been prepared for future addition.
St. Vincent Archabbey is the oldest Benedictine monastery in the USA, and has recently celebrated the 200th anniversary of its founding by Boniface Wimmer. The monastic musicians are The Rev. Cyprian Constantine, OSB; The Rev. Stephen Concordia, OSB; and The Rev. Donald Raila, OSB.
The visual design is a collaboration between John-Paul Buzard and The Rev. Vincent DePaul Crosby, OSB. The Right Rev. Douglas Nowicki, OSB is St. Vincent’s archabbot.
For more information: www.Buzardorgans.com.
