Murray to play Stambaugh organ

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Acclaimed organist Thomas Murray will give a concert at 4 p.m. Sunday on the newly refurbished pipe organ at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Tickets are $20 ($10 for seniors and $5 for students); call 330-259-0555 or go to stambaughauditorium.com.

The performance will be the second in a three-concert series to to inaugurate the historic pipe organ, which was restored in a two-year, $1.5 million project.

Murray will perform works by Bach, Elgar, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schumann and Widor.

A professor of organ at Yale University School of Music, Murray is also principal organist and artist in residence at Christ Church in New Haven, Conn. He has been on the Yale faculty since 1981 and became university organist in 1990.

An active concert organist, Murray has performed in England, Finland, Japan and Australia.

At Yale, he has access to the school’s famed organ in Woolsey Hall, which, like the Stambaugh instrument, was made by the E.M. Skinner Co. The Yale organ is one of the largest and most important Romantic-music era instruments in the United States.