{"id":622,"date":"2019-08-05T16:35:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinitymoravian.org\/content\/?p=622"},"modified":"2019-08-05T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T20:35:56","slug":"new-organist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinitymoravian.org\/content\/new-organist\/","title":{"rendered":"New Organist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe\nare excited to announce that we have hired a new organist.&nbsp; Matthew Cates, who has played as sub for two\nSundays in July, was invited to apply for the job as permanent organist.&nbsp; He will be serving under the direction of\nOscar Hernandez, our Music Director.&nbsp; \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Cates is an avid pianist, organist, and composer. Having a deep love for French Romantic and Impressionist music, he frequently performs the works of Durufl\u00e9, Franck, Litaize, Vierne, and Widor. He studies currently at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with Dr. Timothy Olsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Composing frequently, he has written a number of works for\norchestra, chamber ensemble, piano, organ, and voice, among other instruments.\nHis works have been performed in North America and across Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew has studied and performed extensively in Europe as well.\nHe\u2019s seen extensive venues across the United States and Europe performing at\nthe Washington National Cathedral, Duke University, \u00c9glise de La Madeleine,\n\u00c9glise Saint-Eustache de Paris, St. Bernard de La Chapelle, La Cath\u00e9drale\nAm\u00e9ricaine de Paris and Notre Dame d\u2019Auteuil, among others. He studied at\nL\u2019Acad\u00e9mie Internationale d\u2019Orgue in Paris, France, where his teachers included\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Blanc, Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvrard, Fran\u00e7ois Espinasse,\nFran\u00e7ois-Henri Houbart, and Andrew Dewar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his studies in Europe he has performed the\ncomplete works of Maurice Durufl\u00e9, and is a Maurice Durufl\u00e9 scholar. Matthew\nhas had the opportunity to be part of chamber groups and larger orchestra\ngroups playing works such as his own \u201cChanson du C\u0153ur\u201d, Michael Daugherty\u2019s\n\u201cBells for Stokowski\u201d,and Vivaldi\u2019s \u201cGloria\u201d, as well as the opportunity to\nsing works such as Durufl\u00e9\u2019s and Faur\u00e9\u2019s Requiem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has won two superior prizes for piano performance, in the 2013, and 2014 ACSI piano competitions. His playing has been described in \u201cThe American Organist\u201d as \u201ctechnically and musically masterful. His love for the music is infectious.\u201d (TAO July 2015). 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