First Church Arts presents organist Daniel Colaner in a brief afternoon recital on the Kimball and Beckerath organs of First Congregational Church in Columbus.

Daniel Colaner captured international media attention at the age of 12 with his same-day performances at Carnegie Hall on piano and at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on organ. Since then, he has been featured on PBS with the American Pops Orchestra in One Voice: The Songs We Share, ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, NPR’s From the Top (Show #377), and BBC’s World Service Newsday. At the age of 16, he was recognized in The Diapason magazine’s “20 under 30” Class of 2021. He received the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award in 2020 and was named a 2023 National YoungArts Finalist (Winner) in Organ/Classical Music. Most recently, he was the 1st Prize and Audience Prize winner at the 2023 Arthur Poister Organ Competition and the L. Cameron Johnson Organ Competition. He performed Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante last spring as the winner of the 2023 Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition and enjoyed playing the great organs of Paris this past summer as an Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship winner. Daniel is the Organ Scholar at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and a private organ student of David Higgs of the Eastman School of Music.

Program:

Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Jesus, meine Zuversicht, HoWV VIII.22
Gottfried August Homilius (1714-1785)

Herzlich tut mich verlangen, Op. 122 No. 10 Johannes Brahms(1833-1897)

Rorate caeli, Op. 8 No. 1
Jeanne Demessieux

Introduction and Passacaglia, WoO IV/6 Max Reger(1873-1916)

Reverie
William Grant Still (1895-1978)

Pageant
Leo Sowerby (1895-1968)