Recital features organist Ahreum Han
Sunday, March 6, 2022, 4:15 PM
Sunday, March 6 at 4:15 p.m., Music at St. Luke’s will host organist Ahreum Han in a pre-evensong recital. Han is director of music and organist at First Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth, TX. Her performance will feature music by John Cook, J.S. Bach, Jean Berveiller, Louis Vierne, and Franz Liszt.
A native of Seoul, South Korea, organist Ahreum Han’s imaginative, powerful, and extraordinary performances have thrilled audiences throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. Her family immigrated to Atlanta when she was sixteen. Han has appeared as performing artist at the International Organ Festival in Arbon, Switzerland, Jack Singer Hall (Calgary, Canada),
Michealskirche (Leipzig, Germany), Oxford Town Hall (Oxford, United Kingdom), Nottingham Albert Concert Hall (Nottingham, UK), and Esplanade Hall in Singapore. Han has appeared as a solo recitalist in major venues include the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall (Philadelphia); The Riverside Church, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, St. Bartholomew’s Church, and Trinity Church, Wall Street (NYC); Princeton University Chapel; Memorial Chapel at Harvard University (Boston); Ocean Grove Auditorium (Ocean Grove, New Jersey), St. Philip’s Cathedral (Atlanta), Broadway Baptist Church (Fort Worth), Merrill Auditorium (Portland, Maine). She has appeared as organ soloist with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra at Kimmel Center and the University of Pennsylvania Orchestra at Irvine Auditorium. She holds degrees in organ performance from Westminster Choir College and Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music, a Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Iowa.
Following the recital, the Adult Choir will offer a Service of Choral Evensong at 5 p.m. with music by William Byrd, Ola Gjeilo, T. Tertius Noble, and Herbert Howells. A reception will follow the service in Budd Hall.