Organist, pianist plan a classical program

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Edward Alan Moore and Nathan Carterette will present a concert at 4 p.m. Sunday at Stambaugh Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave. For ticket information, call 330-259-0555, or go to stambaughauditorium.com.

Moore, a Girard native and an organist, and Carterette, a pianist, are Pittsburgh-based musicians who will perform solo and as a duet.

They will present works made famous by J.S. Bach, Franz Liszt, Louis Vierne and Maurice Ravel. They will close their performance with Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” which originally was composed for solo piano and symphony orchestra.

Moore is the organist and music director at East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. He received his doctor of musical arts degree in organ performance from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. He also has a master’s degree in music from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor’s degree in music and religion from Grove City College.

Moore has performed in the Millennium Stage concert series at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Carterette was educated at Yale University. He began his piano studies at age 11 with Cleveland’s highly regarded mother-son teachers, Birute and Anthony Smetona. He will spend the spring bringing Bach’s monumental “Goldberg Variations” to life with performances scheduled in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Iowa and Missouri.

Carterette has performed at several noteworthy universities and conservatories, and in Munich and Hamburg, Germany.