Alexander Pattavina is appointed associate organist and choirmaster for St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York, New York. In this role, Pattavina will direct St. Bartholomew’s Choristers, work closely with St. Bart’s Singers and St. Bartholomew’s Choir, and serve as organist in services and concerts.
Pattavina was first drawn to church music as a chorister at St. Paul’s Choir School, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The position of organ scholar was created there for him while he was still a high school student. Pattavina then came to New York City to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in organ at The Juilliard School. While at Juilliard, he served as organ scholar at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church on the Upper West Side and later at Christ Church, Bronxville, New York, where he assisted with their choral program for children and youth. For the past three years, Pattavina has served as director of music at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Midtown Manhattan.
As a recitalist, Pattavina has performed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City; Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts; Trinity Church Copley Square, Boston; and Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts, among other venues. In 2019, he won the Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition, Young Professional Division. He is also a composer whose Christmas carol “All in a Stable Cold and Bare” was published by Hal Leonard in 2018.
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Adam MacDonald to Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ
