Recitals take place on the third Wednesday of each month, September through May (this season there will be no recital in March 2024). Recitals begin at approximately 12:30pm, following 12:00Noon Mass. No charge for admission; freewill offering.
Recitals feature the III/67 Lively-Fulcher organ. Specifications available at www.saintolaf.org/organspecs
Diamond’s program is based on the theme Heart Beats,
acknowledging the power emotion plays in music.
Rouse Fanfare Healey Willan
(1880-1968)
Stir Concerto in G Minor Karl Heinrich Graun
(Allegro, Adagio, Allegro Gusto) (1704-1759)
Reflect The Arts And The Hours Jean Philippe Rameau
(from Les Boreades ) (1683-1764)
Organ transcription, Diamond
Break Chacona Svitlana Ostrova
(b.1961)
Shatter Abide With Me Emma Lou
Diemer
(b.1927)
Revive Cantabile Enrico Pasini
(1935-2022)
Rejuvenate Carillon-Sortie Henri Mulet
(1879-1967)
Carolyn Diamond Biography
Active as both pianist and pipe organist,
she performs regularly on concert series and in salon settings. As a
recitalist, she has been praised for her buoyant style and interpretive vigor,
and has the reputation of delivering passionate and colorful
performances. Selections from her CD of piano music, SCANDINAVIAN SUITE,
have been played on Minnesota Public Radio.
Diamond has been a frequent performer at
the Van Cliburn Piano Institute in Texas where she was a winner of their Piano
Concerto Competition, performing with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
She is active as a member of the Twin
Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (on the Executive Board),
Friday Club, and is an Artist Performer and Executive Board Member of Thursday
Musical. And while living in NYC, worked with the American Symphony
Orchestra, and was a performer with the National Arts Club.
Having been a church musician since high school, Carolyn
Diamond has served congregations as Director of Music/Organist in the Twin
Cities as well as in the NY/CT area.
Additionally, she has formed a salon series called
MUSE….Music Uniting Spirits Everywhere... intended to promote music of multi
styles and genres to spread good will and human connection.
A Valedictorian from Robbinsdale High School, she received
her B.A. degree (with highest distinction) from the University of Minnesota
where she studied piano with Bernard Weiser and organ with Heinrich
Fleischer. Postgraduate work includes keyboard studies with
Howard Don Small, Dean Billmeyer at the University of Minnesota, Kent Tritle of
the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, and Igor Resnianski of
Westchester University.
She and her husband, Alan, have three children, four grandchildren,
and live happily in Chanhassen with their cats, Aria and Sienna!
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