Juilliard organist to perform on BYU-Idaho Ruffatti

Paul Jacobs, chairman of the organ department at New York's Juilliard School at Lincoln Center, will perform a recital on the Ruffatti organ at BYU-Idaho Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Barrus Concert Hall at BYU-Idaho in Rexburg.

Tickets for the Center Stage Performing Arts Series concert can be purchased from the BYU-Idaho Ticket Office by calling 496-2230 or online at www.byui.edu/tickets. Tickets are $8 for the general public and $4 for BYU-Idaho students.

BYU-Idaho and community organ students and teachers are invited to a free master class will be held Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the Barrus Concert Hall. At the recital, he will perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach, John Weaver, Johannes Brahms and Max Reger.

Jacobs was appointed to the Juilliard faculty in 2003 at the age of 26, making him one of the youngest faculty appointments in the school's history.

He came to national attention as a concert organist in 2000 when he twice performed the complete organ works of Bach in 14 consecutive evenings in New York City and Philadelphia. Later in the year he trumped that achievement by performing the complete works again in an 18-hour, non-stop marathon in Pittsburgh.

In 2002 he performed the complete organ works of Messiaen in a series of nine-hour, one-day marathons in six American cities: Chicago, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Seattle, and has more recently repeated the phenomenal performance in New York City.

He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and received a master of music degree and artist diploma, as well as a Distinguished Alumni Award, from Yale University.