Douglas Moore Festival Organ Concert

The fourth annual Douglas Moore Festival Organ Concert will be held this Saturday, April 18 at 3 p.m. at the Cutchogue Presbyterian Church.

This year’s concert features up-and-coming Juilliard School student Gregory Zelek, a native of Miami, Florida. He was the first-prize winner in the 2012 Rodgers North American Classical Organ Competition and the 2012 West Chester University Organ Competition. He also was selected as a 2010 NFAA YoungArts Silver Medal Winner, won first prize as well as the Bach Prize at the East Carolina University Organ Competition, and was a prizewinner in the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival.

He is the music intern at Hitchcock Presbyterian Church in Scarsdale, New York, and is the organist for San Pedro Apostol Church in Ramales de la Victoria, Spain. He performed Poulenc’s Organ Concerto with the Miami Symphony Orchestra in 2011 and played Strauss’s Alpine Symphony with the MET Orchestra in Carnegie Hall conducted by Semyon Bychkov.

Mr. Zelek was recently the organist in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Faust, and performed with the New World Symphony last March.

The Cutchogue Presbyterian Church is located at 27245 Main Road in Cutchogue. Free concert. Refreshments will be served. Donations welcome.