Organ Recital Series: George Bozeman

Date: 

Tuesday, February 2, 2016, 7:30pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

The Memorial Church Sanctuary

George Bozeman, Organist and Organbuilder

This recital marks a return by George Bozeman to Memorial Church. In 1971 he performed Marcel Dupré’s monumental Stations of the Cross on the former Fisk organ in Appleton Chapel. The service was conducted by the late Reverend Peter J. Gomes with Robert Gartside reading in French Paul Claudel’s meditations which inspired the music. Gomes wrote to Bozeman of this occasion, “one of the most worshipful experiences I have had in Memorial Church.” The program was repeated in 1976 with the same participants. A later concert was by the Hot Air Duo, George Bozeman, organ, and J. Bryan Dyker, flute, in March 1984.

 George Bozeman, a native of Texas, studied with Dr. Helen Hewitt at North Texas State College. In 1967 he received a Fulbright Grant and studied organ with Anton Heiller and harpsichord with Isolde Ahlgrim at the Academy of Music in Vienna.  Bozeman began his career as an organbuilder with Otto Hofmann of Austin, Texas, and later worked with Robert L. Sipe of Dallas and Fritz Noack in Massachusetts. Throughout he has remained active as a church musician and now serves as Director of Music at the First Congregational Church in Pembroke, New Hampshire. He has played recitals throughout the United States and in Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean, and European.