ONLINE CONCERT EVENT

Available online: Nov 13, 2020 at 8pm to Nov, 16, 2020 at 11:59pm

This program's bookends feature major works of Dietrich Buxtehude and J. S. Bach, the latter of whom was famously inspired by the former. In between, we'll hear a set of chorale variations by the south German composer, Johann Pachelbel, and a movement from an acclaimed organ Mass by the Parisian, François Couperin.

Nicole Simental is currently the Assistant Director of Music and Principal Organist at Saint Joseph Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio. Ms. Simental is a candidate for the Doctorate of Music in organ performance at Indiana University where she studied with Dr. Christopher Young. She is a consummate keyboardist, having studied piano since the age of seven, organ since the age of 10, and harpsichord throughout her undergraduate studies at Oberlin. Ms. Simental received her Masters in Sacred Music from The University of Notre Dame and Bachelor of Music from Wheaton College, and completed additional studies at Oberlin College.

In 2016 she won the Immanuel Lutheran Organ Scholar Award and she was the co-winner at the First Sursa American Organ Competition at Ball State University. Additionally, she was a semifinalist for the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance. Also in September of 2016, she was awarded 1st prize at the IV International Goedicke Organ Competition at the Moscow Conservatory in Moscow, Russia. In 2018 she was a Boston Bach Prizewinner (3rd prize) at the Boston Bach International Organ Competition. She has played for the OHS Convention in 2017 and 2018 as well as the AGO Regional Convention in Grand Rapids in 2019.