St. Mark’s Winter Concert

Musicians Susan Harwood, Will Hayes, J. Nixon McMillan and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church invite you to a winter afternoon concert on Sunday, January 16, at 4 pm. The concert will feature “three musical addicts” performing great tunes by great composers – the vocal Music of Bach-Gounod, Handel, Faurè and Cèsar Franck, the cello Music of Bach and Vivaldi and the organ Music of Georgi Mushel.
Will Hayes, violin/cellist of Celestial Strings, is a Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music graduate who plays cello, sings and teaches private cello and bass lessons in the Capital District.  He performs celtic baroque repertoire in the Rensselear Consort trio comprised of irish bagpipes/uilleann pipe, violin and cello. He has studied choral conducting with choral great Robert Shaw and with teachers from the Metropolitan Opera, NYC, the Chautauqua Institution, NY, and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado.  He has been a marching band drum major, been pictured in Opera News, performed live in concert with rock legend Rod Stewart for President Bush the elder and in orchestras and choral ensembles around the globe.  Hayes is currently associated with the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra and is principal cellist of the SUNY Albany Symphony Orchestra.
J. Nixon  McMillan, organist, has performed solo recitals from Russia to the east and as far as Australia to the west.  Before going to seminary, he was a church musician, college professor and choral conductor.  McMillan has had two stints as Music Director of the Early Music Ensemble Sine Nomine and for thirty seasons has been the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Adullam Choral Camp in Canada. Since moving to New York in 2009, Nixon has played cello in the Delmar Community Orchestra. Fr. McMillan is the Rector of St. Paul’s in the City of Albany.
Susan Harwood, soprano, has appeared in recitals and concerts throughout the United States and is a member of Trio Lyrica, which performs Russian vocal chamber music.  Harwood is Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Voice at the College of St. Rose.  She is a soloist at St. Paul’s Church in Albany.
St. Mark’s Aeolian Skinner Pipe Organ, Opus 873, was built in 1931 and is the first instrument built after the amalgamation of these two firms.  It has three manuals and pedals and twenty three ranks of pipes.
This concert is offered free of charge, though donations are welcomed. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church is located at  70 Main Street  Hoosick Falls, 518 686-4982.