Artist Biography





Gregory Eaton is director of music and organist of St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights since 1993.  From 1984 to 2006, he was also lecturer in church music of the General Theological Seminary.  At St. Ann's he plays the landmark E.M. Skinner organ of 1925, and can be heard most weeks of the year in the church's weekly organ recital every Wednesday at 1:10 pm.  A graduate of the University of Redlands, California, his major teachers have been Eva Clover in piano, Jeffrey Rickard in conducting, and Dr. Leslie Spelman in organ.  An invitation to join the music staff of Trinity Church, Wall Street, brought Mr. Eaton to New York in 1984.  After two years at Trinity, he served for six years as director of music of the Church of the Epiphany in Manhattan, prior to accepting the position at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity.

In addition to his church music activities, Gregory Eaton is also, with David Hurd, one of the co-founders of Chelsea Winds recorder ensemble, and an occasional composer of both sacred and secular music.

Program:

Prepare the Royal Highway.......................... Emma Lou Diemer (2002)
Evening Song......................................................... David Hurd (1978)
The Four Winds......................................... Alec Rowley (1892-1952)
           North Wind
           South Wind
           East Wind
           West Wind
Two Piano ‘Rags’........................................ Scott Joplin (1868–1917)
        Wall Street Rag
                    Panic in Wall Street, Brokers feeling melancholy.
                    Good times coming.
                    Good times have come.
                    Listening to the strains of genuine negro ragtime, brokers forget their cares.
         Pine Apple Rag
                    arr. Gregory Eaton

Interval

Fantasy for Oboe and Organ.............................. Barrie Mosher (2007)
          Megan Marolf, oboe***
March............................................... Reginald de Koven (1859–1920)
             arr. Gregory Eaton
Pastorale................................................... César Franck (1822–1890)
Sonata #2 in D, Op. 50.................... Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911)
              Allegro moderato
              Larghetto
              Allegro vivace
 

***Oboist Megan Marolf is an active orchestral, chamber, and solo musician throughout the New York City area and beyond. She performs and tours with the Philip Glass Ensemble as part of "Book of Longing," a new piece based on the poetry of Leonard Cohen. Megan has also performed with such ensembles as the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Alarm Will Sound , DiCapo Opera Theater, Garden State Philharmonic, and the woodwind quartet TetraWind, and at such events as the Tribeca Film Festival and Bang on a Can Marathon.

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