Hymn Festival

Hymn Festival 2024 hdr

 

A festival celebrating music of faith with Chancel Choir and Handbell Choir of First Presbyterian Church of Spokane.

Ethan Haman, organist; Derrick Parker, conductor.

 

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Program

 

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Prelude – Das alte Jahr vergangen ist (BWV 614), In dir ist Freude (BWV 615) – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

 

Anthem – Holy God, We Praise Your Name – arr. John Ferguson (b. 1941), tune: Grosser Gott

 

Welcome

 

Creation and Providence

 

Hymn 455 – All Creatures of Our God and King – tune: Lasst uns erfreuen

 

Hymn 554 – Let All Things Now Living – tune: Ash Grove

 

God’s Covenant Promise

 

Sign of the Covenant

 

Anthem – Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah – arr. Mark Hayes (b. 1953), tune: Cwm Rhondda

 

Voluntary – How Firm a Foundation – arr. Bob Burroughs (b. 1937), tune: Foundation

 

Hymn 446 – Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken – tune: Austrian Hymn

 

Advent

 

Scripture and Reflection

 

Prayer – Dona Nobis Pacem

 

Hymn 3 – Comfort, Comfort You My People – tune: Psalm 42 (Genevan Psalter)

 

Christ’s Life — Christmas

 

Voluntary – Away in a Manger – arr. Cynthia Dobrinski (b. 1950), tunes: Cradle Song and Mueller

 

Prayer Litany – In This Small Place Made Glorious

 

Hymn 41 – O Come All Ye Faithful – tune: Adeste Fidelis

 

Offertory – Improvisation on Christmas Carols

 

Christ’s Life — Transfiguration and Lenten Journey

 

Reflection

 

Hymn 77 – Forty Days and Forty Nights – tune: Aus der tiefe ruhe ich

 

Christ’s Life — Passion and Exaltation

 

Hymn 89 – Hosanna, Loud Hosanna – tune: Ellacombe

 

Poem – Gethsemane – Mary Oliver (1935-2019)

 

Hymn 98 – O Sacred Head Now Wounded – tune: Passion Chorale

 

Hymn 599 – Jesus, Remember Me – tune: from Taizé

 

Anthem – Ah, Holy Jesus – arr. Craig Courtney (b. 1954), tune: Herzliebster Jesu

 

Poem – from The Way of Pain – Wendell Berry (b. 1934)

 

Moment of Silence

 

Hymn 123 – Jesus Christ Is Risen Today – tune: Easter Hymn

 

Reflection

 

Anthem – The Church’s One Foundation – arr. Dan Forrest (b. 1978), tune: Foundation

 

Benediction

 

Postlude – Improvisations by Ethan Haman

 

This festival is made possible with significant support of the Church Music Institute and First Presbyterian Church.

  Church Music Institute  First Presbyterian - Spokane  

 

 

Guest Organist

Ethan at organEthan Haman graduated from Yale University with MM and MMA degrees in Organ Performance in May 2022, studying organ with Jon Laukvik, Craig Cramer, and Martin Jean, as well as improvisation with Jeffrey Brillhart. In 2019, he graduated from the University of Southern California with a BM degree in Composition and Organ Performance, studying with Daniel Temkin, Sean Friar, Donald Crockett, Andrew Norman, Morten Lauridsen, and Cherry Rhodes. Previously, he studied with concert organist and composer Angela Kraft Cross. He has gone on several study trips to Paris and Lyon sponsored by USC, the San Francisco Peninsula Organ Academy, and The Presser Foundation’s Undergraduate Scholar Award for immersion into the French organ tradition on historic instruments including those of Notre Dame Cathedral and the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, with extensive study under internationally renowned improvisers Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin and Frédéric Blanc.

 

 

 

 

Ethan headshot 1In addition to his performance activities, Ethan teaches improvisation privately and through workshops for universities as well as local chapters of the AGO, and most recently for the Church Music Institute in Dallas, TX. He is regularly commissioned to compose new choral and keyboard music. Notable recent commissions include the AGO for their 2019 Regional Convention in Orange County and Singing City Choir in collaboration with 2020-2021 Philadelphia youth poet laureate Cydney Brown. His compositions can be found at SheetMusicPlus.com. Ethan also enjoys recording videos for his YouTube channel as well as studying foreign languages; he currently speaks English, French, Spanish, European Portuguese, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, and is currently learning German and Korean.

Visit Ethan’s professional website www.EthanHaman.com, or follow @Ethan.Haman.Music today on Facebook or Instagram to see concert, recording, and composition announcements!

 

 

 

Conductor

Derrick ParkerHailed by Opera News for his “vividly flavored vocalism” and “tall and commanding” presence, Derrick Parker recently returned to the title role in Porgy and Bess with the Detroit Symphony, sang Jake in Porgy and Bess with Seattle Opera, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Utah Opera, Mozart’s Requiem with Utah Symphony, Porgy in Porgy and Bess with Baltimore Symphony, Ramfis in Aida with Utah Opera, Le fauteuil and L’arbre in L’enfant et les sortileges with Utah Symphony, and Joe in Showboat with Kentucky Opera.

Mr. Parker recently made a triumphant, last-minute debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Porgy in Porgy and Bess. His European operatic debut came with performances of Mel in Anthony McDonald’s The Knot Garden at the Scottish Opera. His other recent performances include Alidoro in La cenerentola with Portland Opera, Fort Worth Opera, and Utah Opera; Colline in La bohème previously with Fort Worth Opera, Cleveland Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Shreveport Opera; Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Fort Worth Opera as well as joining Houston Grand Opera for the same title, Banquo in Macbeth and Salieri in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri with Anchorage Opera, Escamillo in Carmen with Chautauqua Opera and Opera Santa Barbara, Masetto in Don Giovanni with Houston Grand Opera, New Orleans Opera, and student performances with Dallas Opera; Collatinus in The Rape of Lucretia with Chicago Opera Theatre; Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Nourabad in Les pêcheurs de perles in returns to Utah Opera; and Zuniga in Carmen with Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Pensacola Opera. Other performances to his credit are the title role in Don Giovanni and Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with Cape Town Opera and Pensacola Opera and Spokane Opera; Leporello in Don Giovanni with Opera Birmingham, further performances of Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with Chautauqua Opera, Pizarro in Fidelio with Virginia Opera; Sparafucile and Monterone in Rigoletto with Opera Couer d’Alene; Belcore in L’elisir d’amore with Granite State Opera; Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Pacific and Madison Opera; High Priest in Samson et Dalila with Orlando Opera; Sam in Un ballo in maschera with Palm Beach Opera, Leporello in Don Giovanni with Opera Birmingham and Wolf Trap Opera, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor and the Preacher in Treemonisha with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Monterone in Rigoletto with Berkshire Opera, Don Alhambra in The Gondoliers with Utah Opera at the Deer Valley Music Festival, and Méphistophélès in Faust as a guest artist at the University of Denver. He joined Cape Town Opera for Crown in Porgy and Bess with on tour in Sweden, Germany, and Norway as well as in Africa

Parker is the recipient of a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshanna Foundation as well as a Sullivan Foundation Award. Among his other awards are prizes from the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Foundation and Liederkrantz Foundation. He is a former member of the prestigious Houston Grand Opera Studio Program as well as Glimmerglass Opera’s Young American Artist program, Wolf Trap Opera’ Filene Young Artist Program, and the programs of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Chautauqua Opera. He holds a Master of Music from Eastman School of Music where he sang Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, his first performances of Collatinus, and Voltaire and Pangloss in Candide and earned his Bachelor of Music from Florida State University.

 

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