American Organ Virtuoso to Perform at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Joan Lippincott, acclaimed as one of America’s organ prodigies, will perform on Sunday, Jan. 18 at 3 p.m. at the College of the Holy Cross. The concert, which will be held in Saint Joseph Memorial Chapel, is free and open to the public.

Lippincott will perform music of Johann Sebastian Bach and the program will be dedicated to the late organist-musicologist Fenner Douglass, a former professor at Duke University.

Lippincott has performed in concert extensively throughout the U.S. under Karen McFarlane Artists and has toured throughout Europe and Canada. She has been a featured recitalist at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, the Spoleto USA Festival, the American Bach Society Biennial, the Dublin (Ireland) International Organ Festival and at conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society, and the Music Teachers’ National Association.

She served as principal university organist at Princeton University from 1993-2000, and for many years has been professor of organ at Westminster Choir College of Rider University.  At Westminster, she was head of the organ department, the largest organ department in the world, well known for the outstanding quality of work by students and faculty.  She directed many European organ study tours and summer organ workshops, including the popular Organ Week for High School Students. Lippincott has served on summer faculties at the New England Conservatory of Music, University of Wisconsin, the Montreat Conference, the Evergreen Conference, and Bach Week at Columbia College.

A graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music and Westminster Choir College, where she was a student of Alexander McCurdy, she also studied at Union Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary.  She is on the Advisory Board of The American Bach Society, an honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota, and has received the Alumni Merit Award, the Distinguished Merit Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from Westminster Choir College.